Re: Unable to get "pretty" URL aliases working

Adam Nielsen [off-list ref] writes:

I'm attemping to learn Git but I've gotten stuck trying to configure a
server to host my repositories.
...
[url "ssh://myserver/path/to/repos/"]
  insteadOf myserver:

url.*.insteadOf is a configuration done on the _client_, i.e. the one that
you run "git clone", "git fetch", "git push", etc. on. 

	$ cat >>$HOME/.gitconfig <<\EOF
        [url "ssh://myserver/path/to/repos/"]
        	insteadOf = myserver://
	EOF
        $ git clone myserver://project.git

In any case, "attempting to learn Git" doesn't mix well with use of
"insteadOf" to me.  If you know /path/to/repos/project.git is what you
want to access, any "attempting to learn Git" person would do more
straight-forward "git clone ssh://myserver/path/to/repos/project.git", or
"git clone myserver:/path/to/repos/project.git" which is even better (it
is shorter to type and is a more natural form to spell ssh transport).

;-)