From: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Date: Fri, 20 Jul 2018 21:37:43 GMT
Subject: Re: error: invalid key with file url insteadOf
Message-ID: <xmqqk1ppa8rc.fsf@gitster-ct.c.googlers.com>
In-Reply-To: <7ac8e749-0636-cac4-35c7-1226f340e72f@gmail.com>

Basin Ilya <basinilya@gmail.com> writes:

> Hi.
>
> I'm trying to make the Cygwin Git understand Mingw-style repo urls:
>
>     git config --global \
>       file:///cygdrive/c.insteadOf \
>       file:///C:
>
> But this fails with:
>
>     error: invalid key: file:///cygdrive/c.insteadOf

Understandable.

> Manually editing ~/.gitconfig works fine:
>
>     [url "file:///cygdrive/c"]
>             insteadOf = file:///C:

How about spelling what you want to happen on the command line
version the same way as your "manual" version?  I.e.

	git config --global \
		url.file:///cygdrive/c.insteadOf \
		file:///C:

notice the lack of "url." in your version.