Suppose I need to use different credential.helper values for different repositories on the same HTTPS host. Ideally I would like to be able to write this logic using a partial URL path prefix, for example in ~/.gitconfig
[credential "https://example.com/prefix1/foo.git";] helper = !ZZZ [credential "https://example.com/prefix1/";] helper = !YYY [credential "https://example.com/";] useHttpPath = true helper = !XXX For prefix1/foo.git (exact path match) this tries ZZZ first as desired: $ git credential fill protocol=https host=example.com path=prefix1/foo.git ZZZ get: ZZZ: command not found XXX get: XXX: command not found Username for 'https://example.com/prefix1/foo.git': ^C However, prefix1/bar.git does not try YYY: $ git credential fill protocol=https host=example.com path=prefix1/bar.git XXX get: XXX: command not found Username for 'https://example.com/prefix1/bar.git': ^C even though (AFAICT) the general behavior of git-config seems to imply that it would do so: $ git config --get-urlmatch credential https://example.com/prefix1/bar.git credential.helper !YYY credential.usehttppath true Is this discrepancy intended? The documentation in `man gitcredentials` (https://git-scm.com/docs/gitcredentials) points out quite explicitly that my patterns will not match foo.example.com nor plain http, but both of those rules are consistent with what git-config reports: $ git config --get-urlmatch credential https://foo.example.com/ credential.helper osxkeychain $ git config --get-urlmatch credential http://example.com/ credential.helper osxkeychain If indeed the current behavior of git-credential is as intended, I think it would be helpful for that manpage to explicitly mention it (i.e. that you may specify a URL path component but that it must match exactly). Right now the only example given is one in which 'the "pattern" URL does not care about the path component at all.' I'm testing against $ git --version git version 2.19.0 installed via homebrew on Mac OS X. Thanks, David -- David Zych Lead Network Service Engineer University of Illinois Technology Services
