# error: invalid key with file url insteadOf 2 messages from 2018-07-20 to 2018-07-20. Participants: Basin Ilya, Junio C Hamano. Thread: https://gitlist.dev/t/48929 ## Basin Ilya, 2018-07-20 21:27 Subject: error: invalid key with file url insteadOf Message-ID: <7ac8e749-0636-cac4-35c7-1226f340e72f@gmail.com> URL: https://gitlist.dev/e/7ac8e749-0636-cac4-35c7-1226f340e72f%40gmail.com ``` 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 Manually editing ~/.gitconfig works fine: [url "file:///cygdrive/c"] insteadOf = file:///C: il@MAR2 /cygdrive/c/progs/maven/maven-scm/maven-scm-providers/maven-scm-providers-git/maven-scm-provider-gitexe $ LANG=C cmd.exe /X /C "git clone file:///C:/progs/maven/maven-scm/maven-scm-providers/maven-scm-providers-git/maven-scm-provider-gitexe/target/git_copy checkin-nobranch" Cloning into 'checkin-nobranch'... warning: You appear to have cloned an empty repository. ``` ## Junio C Hamano, 2018-07-20 21:37 Subject: Re: error: invalid key with file url insteadOf Message-ID: URL: https://gitlist.dev/e/xmqqk1ppa8rc.fsf%40gitster-ct.c.googlers.com In-Reply-To: <7ac8e749-0636-cac4-35c7-1226f340e72f@gmail.com> ``` Basin Ilya 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. ```