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From: Dennis Kaarsemaker <dennis@kaarsemaker.net>
To: Elliott Cable <me@ell.io>, Git Mailing List <git@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: persistent-https, url insteadof, and `git submodule`
Date: Fri, 19 May 2017 23:43:06 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <1495230186.19473.7.camel@kaarsemaker.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CAPZ477MCsBsfbqKzp69MT_brwz-0aes6twJofQrhizUBV7ZoeA@mail.gmail.com>

On Fri, 2017-05-19 at 14:57 -0500, Elliott Cable wrote:
> Set up `persistent-https` as described in the [README][]; including the
> ‘rewrite https urls’ feature in `.gitconfig`:
> 
>     [url "persistent-https"]
>         insteadof = https
>     [url "persistent-http"]
>         insteadof = http
> 
> Unfortunately, this breaks `git submodule add`:
> 
>     > git submodule add https://github.com/nodenv/nodenv.git \
>         ./Vendor/nodenv
>     Cloning into '/Users/ec/Library/System Repo/Vendor/nodenv'...
>     fatal: transport 'persistent-https' not allowed
>     fatal: clone of 'https://github.com/nodenv/nodenv.git' into
> submodule path '/Users/ec/Library/System Repo/Vendor/nodenv' failed
> 
> Presumably this isn't intended behaviour?

It actually is. git-submodule sets GIT_PROTOCOL_FROM_USER to 0, which
makes git not trust any urls except http(s), git, ssh and file urls
unless you explicitely configure git to allow it. See the
GIT_ALLOW_PROTOCOL section in man git and the git-config section it
links to.

D.

  reply	other threads:[~2017-05-19 21:50 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 10+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2017-05-19 19:57 persistent-https, url insteadof, and `git submodule` Elliott Cable
2017-05-19 21:43 ` Dennis Kaarsemaker [this message]
2017-05-19 21:55   ` Dennis Kaarsemaker
2017-05-20  7:07     ` Jeff King
2017-05-26 16:22       ` Elliott Cable
2017-05-31  4:50         ` Jeff King
2017-05-31 14:23           ` Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason
2017-05-31 21:22             ` Jeff King
2017-05-31  5:18         ` [PATCH] docs/config: mention protocol implications of url.insteadOf Jeff King
2017-06-01  0:15           ` Brandon Williams

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