Re: [PATCH 0/5] git-gui: Support for "Locators" - address templates

From: Daniel Barkalow <barkalow@iabervon.org>
Date: Sep 25, 2008, 21:26 UTC
Message-ID: <alpine.LNX.1.00.0809251705260.19665@iabervon.org>
In-Reply-To: <20080924221249.037449176@suse.cz>

On Thu, 25 Sep 2008, pasky@suse.cz wrote:

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> This patch allows "locators" to be configured and used in the GUI,
> basically as URL templates the input string is subsituted into.
> The default operation of git-gui is not much affected (only some
> labels change to be less confusing).
> 
> This is aimed mainly at corporate Git deployments - the integrator
> might want to configure the central corporate repository store as
> the default locator so that people do not need to type the same
> URL over and over but can instead just type the repository name
> on the server. Or avid repo.or.cz users might set up a 'repo'
> locator pointing at 'git://repo.or.cz/%s'.

Can this be set up to use the "url.<base>.insteadOf" configuration? Part of my goal with that feature was to make it easy for me to reference projects on my work's central repository store. That is, put in your ~/gitconfig:

[url "git://repo.or.cz/"]
	insteadOf = repo:

And "git clone repo:alt-git" works.

It'd be nice to share the config somehow so that the same settings can be used both in git-gui and on the command line. (I wrote the code so that a user can swap patterns of URLs work for other people but aren't good for that particular user, but it also applies to user-provided shorthand URLs.)

	-Daniel
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