Re: Feature request: partial URL matching for credential config

From: M Hickford <mirth.hickford@gmail.com>
Date: Sep 28, 2025, 14:13 UTC
Message-ID: <CAGJzqs=8QHB2UjECVpEB2_R85dG1oHg2F2ewDRVpun8XqbboKQ@mail.gmail.com>
In-Reply-To: <CAGJzqsn7BbaVckJ17XhsDHLtmS3OZPBG=oniwe+FRjhEwGc+Eg@mail.gmail.com>

On Sat, 27 Sept 2025 at 19:48, M Hickford <mirth.hickford@gmail.com> wrote:

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> Hi. A git-credential-oauth user would like to define separate
> credential config for two URLs prefixes of the same host (eg.
> https://example.com/org1/* and http://example.com/org2/*)
> https://github.com/hickford/git-credential-oauth/issues/83
>
> I don't believe this is currently possible
> https://git-scm.com/docs/gitcredentials
>
> > If the "pattern" URL does include a path component, then this too must match exactly: the context https://example.com/bar/baz.git will match a config entry for https://example.com/bar/baz.git (in addition to matching the config entry for https://example.com) but will not match a config entry for https://example.com/bar.
>
> Any thoughts on adding support for URL prefix matching?
>
> Example syntax could be credential.https://example.com/org1/*.key
> (explicit wildcard) or credential.https://example.com/org1/.key
> (implicit wildcard)

Here's a simpler example without OAuth -- configuring a personal username for https://git.example.com and an enterprise username for URLs beginning https://git.example.com/syscorp/

credential.https://git.example.com.username=tim credential.https://git.example.com/syscorp/.username=timothy.smith