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From: Josh Triplett <josh@joshtriplett.org>
To: git@vger.kernel.org, gitster@pobox.com
Subject: [PATCHv2 0/2] Add url.<base>.pushInsteadOf: URL rewriting for push only
Date: Mon, 7 Sep 2009 01:55:40 -0700	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <cover.1252313313.git.josh@joshtriplett.org> (raw)

Many sites host repositories via both git:// for fetch-only anonymous
access and ssh:// for push-capable access.  The "insteadOf" mechanism
makes it straightforward to substitute the push-capable URLs for the
pull-only URLs, which proves convenient when the site hosts many
repositories using the same URL scheme.  However, if you use such a
substitution and you cannot use the ssh:// URLs (either because you
don't have SSH access or you don't have permission to a particular
repository), you cannot clone or fetch either, even though you could do
so via the git:// URLs.  A situation like this arises when sharing git
configuration files between systems, of which only a few have SSH access
to repositories.

"pushurl" provides a way to specify URLs used only for push, but this
requires configuring a pushurl for each such repository.  As in the
rationale for insteadOf, it makes sense to configure this for all
repositories hosted on a given system at once.

This patch series adds a new "pushInsteadOf" option to go with
"insteadOf".  pushInsteadOf allows systematically rewriting fetch-only
URLs to push-capable URLs when used with push.  For instance:

[url "ssh://example.org/"]
    pushInsteadOf = "git://example.org/"

This will allow clones of "git://example.org/path/to/repo" to
subsequently push to "ssh://example.org/path/to/repo", without manually
configuring pushurl for that remote.

Includes documentation for the new option, bash completion updates, and
test cases (both that pushInsteadOf applies to push and that it does
*not* apply to fetch).


Changes in v2:
 - Don't add implicit pushurls from pushInsteadOf to remotes with explicit
   pushurls (suggested by Junio).
 - Fix pushInsteadOf rewrites to occur before insteadOf rewrites, to avoid
   basing the pushInsteadOf rewrites on the rewritten URLs.


Josh Triplett (2):
  Wrap rewrite globals in a struct in preparation for adding another set
  Add url.<base>.pushInsteadOf: URL rewriting for push only

 Documentation/config.txt               |   13 +++++
 Documentation/urls.txt                 |   18 +++++++
 contrib/completion/git-completion.bash |    2 +-
 remote.c                               |   83 ++++++++++++++++++++------------
 t/t5516-fetch-push.sh                  |   31 ++++++++++++
 5 files changed, 115 insertions(+), 32 deletions(-)

             reply	other threads:[~2009-09-07  8:56 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 7+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2009-09-07  8:55 Josh Triplett [this message]
2009-09-07  8:56 ` [PATCHv2 1/2] Wrap rewrite globals in a struct in preparation for adding another set Josh Triplett
2009-09-07  8:56 ` [PATCHv2 2/2] Add url.<base>.pushInsteadOf: URL rewriting for push only Josh Triplett
2009-09-08  7:02   ` Junio C Hamano
2009-09-08  7:15     ` Josh Triplett
2009-09-08  7:41       ` [PATCH] Add test for ignoring pushInsteadOf when remote has explicit pushurl Josh Triplett
2009-09-08 16:34         ` Junio C Hamano

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