# Re: Potential problems with url.\<base\>.insteadOf

- From: Junio C Hamano \<hidden\>
- Date: 2022-08-26 16:16:44 
- List: git
- Page: https://ratatoskr.run/git/2022/08/7955047
- Thread: https://ratatoskr.run/git/2022/08/7955047/t.md

```text
Javier Mora [ref] writes:

> This results in an ambiguous case, and Git does nothing to prevent it!
> The documentation says that the longest insteadOf value wins, but both
> have the same length since both are the same URL.

The longest has this case in mind:

    [url "A"] insteadof = https://example.com/
    [url "B"] insteadof = https://example.com/special/

So "A" is used as a replacement for the whole site, except for the
special hierarchy that is rewritten to "B".

Getting rid of what you no longer need with "config --unset" is the
right thing to do, and you did fine in the previous example.
```