It Seemed Like A Good Idea, At The Time

I knew for a fact this feature existed, but even so it took me a half hour to track down the syntax for it. To prevent myself ever needing to do that again, I’m putting it here.

To create a nice, short URL abbreviation for git, such as “myserver:<project>.git”, put the following in ‘~/.gitconfig’

[url "ssh://MY-SERVER/~/"]
    insteadOf = myserver:

That’s all there is to it.