Nicer git remote URLs

Most open source git repositories that I interact with are hosted at git.shadowcat.co.uk. A few typical repo urls (read/write) hosted here looks like:

  [email protected]:DBIx-Class.git
  [email protected]:Catalyst-Runtime.git
  [email protected]:Devel-Declare.git
  [email protected]:Moose.git

A handy trick is to make a file at ~/.ssh/config with the following in it:

host catagits
     user catagits
     hostname git.shadowcat.co.uk
     port 22
     identityfile ~/.ssh/id_dsa

host dbsrgits
     user dbsrgits
     hostname git.shadowcat.co.uk
     port 22
     identityfile ~/.ssh/id_dsa

host p5sagit
     user p5sagit
     hostname git.shadowcat.co.uk
     port 22
     identityfile ~/.ssh/id_dsa

host gitmo
     user gitmo
     hostname git.shadowcat.co.uk
     port 22
     identityfile ~/.ssh/id_dsa

Now that that’s done the repos before are simply:

  dbsrgits:DBIx-Class.git
  catagits:Catalyst-Runtime.git
  p5sagit:Devel-Declare.git
  gitmo:Moose.git

I actually did that for my work and github stuff too, since I just don’t have the time to type those stupid domains all the time.

Enjoy!

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Posted Wed, May 25, 2011

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