Basin Ilya <[email protected]> writes:
> Hi.
>
> I'm trying to make the Cygwin Git understand Mingw-style repo urls:
>
> git config --global \
> file:///cygdrive/c.insteadOf \
> file:///C:
>
> But this fails with:
>
> error: invalid key: file:///cygdrive/c.insteadOf
Understandable.
> Manually editing ~/.gitconfig works fine:
>
> [url "file:///cygdrive/c"]
> insteadOf = file:///C:
How about spelling what you want to happen on the command line
version the same way as your "manual" version? I.e.
git config --global \
url.file:///cygdrive/c.insteadOf \
file:///C:
notice the lack of "url." in your version.
