From: Evan Silberman <evan@jklol.net>
Subject: git config: url insteadOf
To: gameoftrees@openbsd.org
Date: Wed, 09 Mar 2022 12:16:08 -0800

Hi there,

I use the git config option url.<base>.insteadOf to be able to do things
like "git clone gh:repo" instead of "git clone git@github.com:org/repo".
The remotes are then spelled thusly in the .git/config file's remote
section, i.e. url = gh:repo. A "got fetch" in the Git checkout or a Got
worktree then fails with "Could not resolve hostname gh" because Got
doesn't know about insteadOf.

I haven't spent the required time in the code to be able to propose a
patch, and the privsep architecture makes it feel a little bit daunting,
beyond having to rely on entirely pattern-matching-based level of C
knowledge. Supporting insteadOf anywhere a URL is accepted in Got's UI
might be too much even if supporting it when parsing remotes is added.
Got currently appears to support a very limited subset of git config,
and this is a somewhat random knob to ask for support for. So for now
consider this just a friendly mention of a case where Got doesn't work
right with an otherwise-ordinary Git repository.

Also public cheers to Thomas for the macOS porting work on -portable!

Evan Silberman