Re: error: invalid key with file url insteadOf

[Junio C Hamano]

Basin Ilya  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.

error: invalid key with file url insteadOf

[Basin Ilya]

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

Manually editing ~/.gitconfig works fine:

[url "file:///cygdrive/c"]
insteadOf = file:///C:


il@MAR2 
/cygdrive/c/progs/maven/maven-scm/maven-scm-providers/maven-scm-providers-git/maven-scm-provider-gitexe
$ LANG=C cmd.exe /X /C "git clone 
file:///C:/progs/maven/maven-scm/maven-scm-providers/maven-scm-providers-git/maven-scm-provider-gitexe/target/git_copy
 checkin-nobranch"
Cloning into 'checkin-nobranch'...
warning: You appear to have cloned an empty repository.