On Tue, Feb 21, 2017 at 3:40 PM, Jeff King [off-list ref] wrote:
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One other caveat: I'm not sure if we do insteadOf recursively, but it
may be surprising to the child "git clone" that we've already applied
the insteadOf rewriting (especially if the rules are coming from
~/.gitconfig and may be applied twice).
When a rule is having effect twice the rule sounds broken. (the outcome
ought to be sufficiently different from the original?)
If you have:
url.bar.insteadOf=foo
url.baz.insteadOf=bar
do we convert "foo" to "baz"? If so, then I think applying the rules
again shouldn't matter. But if we don't, and only do a single level,
then having the caller rewrite the URL before it hands it to "git clone"
means we may end up unexpectedly doing two levels of rewriting.
I see. Thanks for the example. So really what we want is to record the
unencumbered URL (with no rewriting) and then at run time lookup various
places of url.*.insteadOf (which might change with the git version
that you use)
Thanks,
Stefan