RE: [Question] Switching the URI from SSH to HTTPS for submodules

On December 6, 2021 6:54 PM, Robert Coup wrote:

On Mon, 6 Dec 2021 at 23:10, [off-list ref] wrote:

quoted

git@bitbucket.org:project/module.git

When in SSH mode, clones are simple with --recurse-submodules doing
what we want. However, we had to clone on a system where SSH was
locked down and we could only use HTTPS. The form of the URIs changed

rather radically:

quoted

https://user@bitbucket.org/project/repo.git

I'm looking for better practices than I used - I'm sure there is at least one.

AFAIK the existing `url.<base>.insteadOf` config option[1] deals with this...

[1] https://git-scm.com/docs/git-config#Documentation/git-config.txt-
urlltbasegtinsteadOf

    $ git config --global url."https://user@bitbucket.org/".insteadOf
"git@bitbucket.org:"

If you don't want to set it globally (not a throwaway CI environment?) then
you can do it as a one-off:

    $ git -c url."https://user@bitbucket.org/".insteadOf="git@bitbucket.org:"
clone --recurse-submodules git@bitbucket.org:repo/project.git

But it isn't persisted into your repo config then, so subsequent fetches won't
work. You'd need to persist it using something like:

    $ git config url."https://user@bitbucket.org/".insteadOf
"git@bitbucket.org:"
    $ git submodule foreach --recursive 'git config
url."https://user@bitbucket.org/".insteadOf "git@bitbucket.org:" '

Maybe there's an opportunity to make that part easier?

Well, I gave this a shot. The mapping did not appear to work - I tried a few combinations. I was left with the original URIs. Note that I also had to do 

$ git submodule init

which reported the wrong URIs

$ git submodule update

which obviously failed since they were still using SSH.

I think there may be something not working correctly with the insteadOf operator. This is easily reproduceable. 

-Randall