Re: [PATCH] Add support for host aliases in config files

From: Daniel Barkalow <barkalow@iabervon.org>
Date: Jan 25, 2008, 19:09 UTC
Message-ID: <alpine.LNX.1.00.0801251355490.13593@iabervon.org>
In-Reply-To: <m3fxwlagbu.fsf@localhost.localdomain>

On Fri, 25 Jan 2008, Jakub Narebski wrote:

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> Daniel Barkalow <barkalow@iabervon.org> writes:
> 
> > This allows users with different preferences for access methods to the
> > same remote repositories to rewrite each other's URLs to get the
> > desired access.
> 
> [...]
> > +host.<name>.base::
> > +	The base URL which should be used for this particular
> > +	host. This can be used by a user who has a better access
> > +	method to a repository than other users to make use of the
> > +	preferable path despite getting URLs from other users using
> > +	more commonly-available methods. Alternatively, a user who
> > +	only has less privileged access to a repository than the usual
> > +	audience can use this mechanism to replace disallowed methods
> > +	with public ones.
> > +
> > +host.<name>.alias::
> > +	Additional base URLs which refer to this host. If a URL
> > +	matches this, any access to it will use the URL formed with
> > +	the corresponding base URL instead of the given URL.
> > +
> 
> From this I could not get how those configuration are meant to be
> used. Perhaps some usage example?

[host "kernel"]
        base = git://git.kernel.org/pub/
        alias = git+ssh://master.kernel.org/pub/
	alias = master.kernel.org:/pub/

> BTW. wouldn't the same be solved better by enabling remote.<name>.url
> to be multi-valued, first working for fetch, all URLs for push?

The real point is actually for when you're dealing with URLs on the command line which you've cut-and-paste from email or other things. For example, the patches in the -mm quilt series say where the git trees are, but they're all like "git+ssh://master.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/dtor/input.git", which is ideal for people (like Andrew) who have accounts on master, but requires manual fixing for people (like me) who don't.

With the above config, I can do:

git fetch git+ssh://master.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/dtor/input.git

and it actually fetches

git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/dtor/input.git, which actually works for me.

	-Daniel
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