From: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Date: Fri, 26 Aug 2022 16:16:40 GMT
Subject: Re: Potential problems with url.<base>.insteadOf
Message-ID: <xmqq35dj0yl3.fsf@gitster.g>
In-Reply-To: <CAH1-q0iPsnkypiF=2LRgXwNqE_+R0gj706FCKgqGEUum+OAhQg@mail.gmail.com>

Javier Mora <cousteaulecommandant@gmail.com> writes:

> This results in an ambiguous case, and Git does nothing to prevent it!
> The documentation says that the longest insteadOf value wins, but both
> have the same length since both are the same URL.

The longest has this case in mind:

    [url "A"] insteadof = https://example.com/
    [url "B"] insteadof = https://example.com/special/

So "A" is used as a replacement for the whole site, except for the
special hierarchy that is rewritten to "B".

Getting rid of what you no longer need with "config --unset" is the
right thing to do, and you did fine in the previous example.