Re: [Question] Switching the URI from SSH to HTTPS for submodules

From: Robert Coup <robert.coup@koordinates.com>
Date: Dec 6, 2021, 23:53 UTC
Message-ID: <CAFLLRp+yakYKxeGHjvg-8s-5QP8GqMeA5t+azfny=v6wtPPW2A@mail.gmail.com>
In-Reply-To: <001501d7eaf6$79d8e170$6d8aa450$@nexbridge.com>

Hi Randall,

On Mon, 6 Dec 2021 at 23:10, <rsbecker@nexbridge.com> wrote:

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> git@bitbucket.org:project/module.git
>
> When in SSH mode, clones are simple with --recurse-submodules doing what we
> want. However, we had to clone on a system where SSH was locked down and we
> could only use HTTPS. The form of the URIs changed rather radically:
>
> https://user@bitbucket.org/project/repo.git
>
> I'm looking for better practices than I used - I'm sure there is at least one.

AFAIK the existing `url.<base>.insteadOf` config option[1] deals with this...

[1] https://git-scm.com/docs/git-config#Documentation/git-config.txt-urlltbasegtinsteadOf

    $ git config --global url."https://user@bitbucket.org/".insteadOf
"git@bitbucket.org:"

If you don't want to set it globally (not a throwaway CI environment?) then you can do it as a one-off:

    $ git -c url."https://user@bitbucket.org/".insteadOf="git@bitbucket.org:"
clone --recurse-submodules git@bitbucket.org:repo/project.git

But it isn't persisted into your repo config then, so subsequent fetches won't work. You'd need to persist it using something like:

    $ git config url."https://user@bitbucket.org/".insteadOf
"git@bitbucket.org:"
    $ git submodule foreach --recursive 'git config
url."https://user@bitbucket.org/".insteadOf "git@bitbucket.org:" '

Maybe there's an opportunity to make that part easier?

Rob :)