Re: [PATCH 2/2] Add support for url aliases in config files

["Jay Soffian" <jaysoffian@gmail.com>]

On Wed, Feb 20, 2008 at 8:47 PM, Linus Torvalds
<torvalds@linux-foundation.org> wrote:

>  So I think it really boils down to the fact that you want to "rewrite" the
>  thing. Not aliases, not "also known as", but you're logically really
>  looking for something like
>
>         [access "git://git.kernel.org/*"]
>                 proxy = proxy-program
>                 url = "ssh://master.kernel.org/*"
>
>  which admittedly looks rather strange too, but at the same time it does
>  make sense from a "what do we really want to do?" standpoint.
>
>  Of course, in this case Daniel didn't actually do that "proxy" part, but I
>  think the argument that we should try to make the config file syntax
>  describe what the user wants to do is still very true. So skip that
>  "proxy" part (maybe somebody wants to do that too some day), and leave the
>
>         [access "original"]
>                 url = "rewritten"
>
>  kind of syntax.
>
>  (And no, I'm not at all married to the "access" and "url" parts - I don't
>  care. I'm just saying that syntax should be tied to what people want to
>  do, not anything else.

Shrug:

[core]
  rewriterule = <from> <to>
  ; ...

If <from> or <to> contain whitespace then you have to use %20 or quotes.

(There is already proxy support elsewhere in the config.)

I think I'm done suggesting paint colors. :-)

j.