Subject: Re: Feature request - show result of URL rewrites

From: Dennis Kaarsemaker <[email-masked]>
Date: Sat, 12 Nov 2016 19:17:22 +0100

On Sat, 2016-11-12 at 18:49 +0100, Git User wrote:
> Hello
> 
> Hopefully this is the right place to submit feature requests - let me
> know if there's somewhere else I should use!
> 
> Git lets you rewrite URLs using "url.<base>.insteadOf"
> 
> https://stackoverflow.com/a/11383587
> https://git-scm.com/docs/git-config
> 
> Can you add a git-config option to show the result of this rewriting
> whenever this occurs, as debugging more complicated rules can be
> difficult/wasn't obvious without Wireshark.
> 
> E.g. you could have the option 'url.printRewrites [True/False]' which
> would print the line "Rewrote url 'git://github.com/git/git' to 'http
> s://github.com/git/git'" to terminal/stdout  when set to True.

Such a configuration would be superfluous, the GIT_TRACE and
GIT_CURL_VERBOSE environment variables already provide all the
debugging information you need here.

D.