Re: url.<base>.insteadOf vs. submodules

[Stefan Beller <sbeller@google.com>]

On Tue, Feb 21, 2017 at 3:40 PM, Jeff King <peff@peff.net> wrote:

>> > One other caveat: I'm not sure if we do insteadOf recursively, but it
>> > may be surprising to the child "git clone" that we've already applied
>> > the insteadOf rewriting (especially if the rules are coming from
>> > ~/.gitconfig and may be applied twice).
>>
>> When a rule is having effect twice the rule sounds broken. (the outcome
>> ought to be sufficiently different from the original?)
>
> If you have:
>
>   url.bar.insteadOf=foo
>   url.baz.insteadOf=bar
>
> do we convert "foo" to "baz"? If so, then I think applying the rules
> again shouldn't matter. But if we don't, and only do a single level,
> then having the caller rewrite the URL before it hands it to "git clone"
> means we may end up unexpectedly doing two levels of rewriting.
>

I see. Thanks for the example. So really what we want is to record the
unencumbered URL (with no rewriting) and then at run time lookup various
places of url.*.insteadOf (which might change with the git version
that you use)

Thanks,
Stefan