Force git to use git:// instead of https://

I’m an advocate of using SSH authentication and connecting to services like Github, Gitlab, and many others. I do make sure that the use the git:// URL while cloning the repo but sometimes I do make mistake of using the https:// instead. Only to later realise when git prompts me to enter my username to authenticate the SSH connection. This is when I have to manually reset my git remote URL.

Today, I found a cleaner solution to this problem. I can use insteadOf to enforce the connection via SSH.

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

This creates an entry in your .gitconfig:

[url "git@github.com:"]
    insteadOf = https://github.com/