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Re: URL rewrites for submodules

From
Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Date
Feb 10, 2020, 22:04 UTC
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Toon Claes <toon@iotcl.com> writes:
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> Hi,
>
> I recently learned about rewriting URLs. Pretty cool feature. Learned
> about it here:
> https://jonhnnyweslley.net/blog/how-to-rewrite-git-urls-to-clone-faster-and-push-safer/ 
>
> But I've been doing some testing, and this feature does not seem to work
> for git submodules. Is it like that by design, so are there technical or
> practical limitation why we would not like to have this feature on
> submodules too?

Wouldn't these submodules have their own .git/config where you can define the rewrite rules? It depends on why you use the rewriting rules but some common reasons why you rewrite URL A to URL B would apply regardless of which project hosted at A you are accessing, namely, performance and convenience. And in such a case, you do not necessarily want to have the rewrite config in the per-repository configuration file of the top-level superproject. If you define them instead in $HOME/.gitconfig, that would apply equally to all repositories you would access.

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  3. Toon ClaesFeb 11, 2020
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