Re: [RFC] URL rewrite in .gitmodules

From: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Date: Oct 20, 2015, 17:33 UTC
Message-ID: <xmqqio618mxc.fsf@gitster.mtv.corp.google.com>
In-Reply-To: <DCA9FD0F-252B-4CD7-9137-395771CBC62E@gmail.com>

Lars Schneider <larsxschneider@gmail.com> writes:

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> If not, what do you think about a patch that adds a "url" section
> similar to the one in git config to a .gitmodules file?
>
> Example:
> ----------
> [submodule "git"]
> 	path = git
>         url=git://github.com/larsxschneider/git.git
>
> [url "mycompany.com"]
>         insteadOf = outside.com
> ----------

It is unclear to me if you are adding the last two (or three, counting the blank before) lines to your company's private fork of the opensource project, but if that is the case, then that would defeat your earlier desire:

> ... I also would prefer not to do this as I want to use the
> very same hashes as defined by the "upstream" ...

wouldn't it?

I do not think this topic is specific to use of submodules. If you want to encourage your engineers to fetch from nearby mirrors you maintain, you would want a forest of url.mine.insteadof=theirs for the external repositories that matter to you specified by everybody's $HOME/.gitconfig, and one way to do so would be to have them use the configuration inclusion. An item in your engineer orientation material could tell them to add

	[include]
		path = /usr/local/etc/git/mycompany.urlrewrite

when they set up their "[user] name/email" in there.

And you can update /usr/local/etc/git/mycompany.urlrewrite as needed.