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From: "Shawn O. Pearce" <spearce@spearce.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 0/5] git-gui: Support for "Locators" - address templates
Date: Fri, 26 Sep 2008 07:33:51 -0700
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Daniel Barkalow <barkalow@iabervon.org> wrote:
> On Thu, 25 Sep 2008, pasky@suse.cz wrote:
> 
> > This patch allows "locators" to be configured and used in the GUI,
> > basically as URL templates the input string is subsituted into.
> 
> Can this be set up to use the "url.<base>.insteadOf" configuration? Part 
> of my goal with that feature was to make it easy for me to reference 
> projects on my work's central repository store. That is, put in your 
> ~/gitconfig:
> 
> [url "git://repo.or.cz/"]
> 	insteadOf = repo:
> 
> And "git clone repo:alt-git" works.

That's a good idea.

When I saw the locator patch come by I thought a bit about the
insteadOf idea, but didn't make it far enough to open an email
discussion about it.

Pasky?
 
-- 
Shawn.