Re: [PATCH 2/2] Add support for url aliases in config files

> Daniel Barkalow <barkalow@iabervon.org> writes:
> 
> > Thanks; that's exactly what I would have done (assuming I didn't miss 
> > places like last time). Except that it should say that it's still 
> > undefined if you use:
> >
> >         [url "foo"]
> >                 insteadOf = "baz"
> >         [url "bar"]
> >                 insteadOf = "baz/sub"
> >
> > in that you can't predict whether "baz/sub/a" will be "bar/a" or 
> > "foo/sub/a". This is actually what I'm most concerned about, since there 
> > is actually a logical expectation (the one that matches more will be used 
> > in preference to the less specific one), but that's not implemented. 
> > Someday, we'll probably want to implement it, and that'll change the 
> > behavior of this particular case.
> 
> I'd say that that is a reasonable expectation, and it would be
> fair to say that if we have it, the topic will be in 1.5.5 and
> otherwise it won't.
> 
> This might be a bit over-engineered, but should do the job.