Thanks it worked! I was reading all the tutorials wrong all this time...
Regards,
Asfand
On 16 December 2017 at 09:48, Jeff King <p...@peff.net> wrote:
> On Sat, Dec 16, 2017 at 07:50:02AM +0000, Asfand Qazi wrote:
>
>> I found out about the 'insteadOf' setting, and thought it would work.
>> So I added this to my global git config:
>>
>> [url "g...@github.com:MyCompany/"]
>> insteadOf = g...@work.github.com:MyCompany/
>>
>> and left the SSH hostname setting where it was. Then I tried doing:
>>
>> git clone git:github.com/MyCompany/la-repo.git
>>
>> But it won't work. With GIT_TRACE=2, I get:
>
> If I'm reading it right, you have the config backwards. You want to
> convert g...@github.com from Go's invocation of Git into your special
> "work" alias. So:
>
> [url "g...@work.github.com:MyCompany/"]
> insteadOf = "g...@github.com:MyCompany/"
>
> -Peff
