Basin Ilya <basini...@gmail.com> 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.

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