Subject: Re: Potential problems with url.<base>.insteadOf

From: Junio C Hamano <[email-masked]>
Date: Fri, 26 Aug 2022 09:16:40 -0700

Javier Mora <[email-masked]> writes:

> This results in an ambiguous case, and Git does nothing to prevent it!
> The documentation says that the longest insteadOf value wins, but both
> have the same length since both are the same URL.

The longest has this case in mind:

    [url "A"] insteadof = https://example.com/
    [url "B"] insteadof = https://example.com/special/

So "A" is used as a replacement for the whole site, except for the
special hierarchy that is rewritten to "B".

Getting rid of what you no longer need with "config --unset" is the
right thing to do, and you did fine in the previous example.