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

> Daniel Barkalow wrote:
>
> > For example, if you don't have a kernel.org account, you might want 
> > settings like:
> > 
> > [host "kernel.org"]
> >       base = git://git.kernel.org/pub/
> >       rewritebase = master.kernel.org:/pub
> > 
> > Then, if you give git a URL like:
> > 
> >   master.kernel.org:/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/linville/wireless-2.6.git
> > 
> > it will act like you gave it:
> > 
> >   git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/linville/wireless-2.6.git
> > 
> > and you can cut-and-paste pull requests in email without fixing them 
> > by hand, for example.
> > 
> > Signed-off-by: Daniel Barkalow <barkalow@iabervon.org>
> > ---
> 
> So, I may be dense, but I'm having a hard time distinguishing the names 
> "base" and "rewritebase" just from a User Interface perspective.  It's 
> not clear to me which of those is the A and which is the B part in 
> s/A/B/.  "Rewritebase" might be the "from" basis, or it might be the 
> "to" basis.  Can we come up with more descriptive property names here?
> 
> Is the rewrite always just prefix substitution/replacement?
> What if there was some generic path rewrite needed? (KISS? :-))