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From: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
To: Basin Ilya <basinilya@gmail.com>
Cc: git@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: error: invalid key with file url insteadOf
Date: Fri, 20 Jul 2018 14:37:43 -0700	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <xmqqk1ppa8rc.fsf@gitster-ct.c.googlers.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <7ac8e749-0636-cac4-35c7-1226f340e72f@gmail.com> (Basin Ilya's message of "Sat, 21 Jul 2018 00:27:58 +0300")

Basin Ilya <basinilya@gmail.com> 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.

      reply	other threads:[~2018-07-20 21:37 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 2+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2018-07-20 21:27 error: invalid key with file url insteadOf Basin Ilya
2018-07-20 21:37 ` Junio C Hamano [this message]

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