Package: git-core
Version: 1:1.6.3.3-2
Severity: wishlist
I have various repositories hosted on the same machine, available
read-only via the git protocol and read-write via ssh. I'd like to use
something like the url.<base>.insteadOf mechanism to substitute the ssh
URI for the git URI, if and only if I have ssh access from my system.
Any of the following would work for this case:
[url "ssh://example.org/"]
insteadOf = "git://example.org/"
test = test -f ~/.ssh/id_rsa
[url "ssh://example.org/"]
insteadOf = "git://example.org/"
testExists = ~/.ssh/id_rsa
[url "ssh://example.org/"]
insteadOf = "git://example.org/"
for = push
The first of these seems the most general, but requires git to fork and
exec a program when resolving a URI; this doesn't seem particularly
costly, though, since git already needs to fork and exec a program such
as ssh to perform the operation.
The second of these proves easier and faster, since git need only call
access(2). However, it does seem somewhat more specialized for this
particular scenario.
The third of these seems the simplest, and it solves the problem fairly
generally while proving straightforward and cheap for Git (resolve URIs
differently depending on intended use). I think it seems like the best
solution.
- Josh Triplett
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