Re: URL rewrites for submodules

Toon Claes [off-list ref] writes:

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.