Re: [boost] [git help] GitHub boostorg library authentication

On 19 November 2013 14:19, Beman Dawes wrote:

On Tue, Oct 29, 2013 at 5:45 AM, Daniel James wrote:

OK. Going back to Beman's question, I haven't tested it yet, but I

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think the configuration command is:

git config --global url."git@github.com:boostorg/".insteadOf "http://github.com/boostorg/"

This just updates the .gitconfig file, so it can be edited later if it doesn't work.

I just tested this with the current boostorg repos. Worked first try. The actual command I used was:

git config --global url."git@github.com:boostorg/".insteadOf " https://github.com/boostorg/"

You shouldn't need to do this now because Daniel Pfeifer changed it to use relative urls. All the submodules should use the same access method that you used to clone the main repo. I think it uses the default remote as the base for relative urls.