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diff --git a/Documentation/config.txt b/Documentation/config.txt
index f2f6a77..2981389 100644
--- a/Documentation/config.txt
+++ b/Documentation/config.txt
@@ -886,6 +886,18 @@ tar.umask::
archiving user's umask will be used instead. See umask(2) and
linkgit:git-archive[1].
+url.<base>.insteadOf::
+ Any URL that starts with this value will be rewritten to
+ start, instead, with <base>. In cases where some site serves a
+ large number of repositories, and serves them with multiple
+ access methods, and some users need to use different access
+ methods, this feature allows people to specify any of the
+ equivalent URLs and have git automatically rewrite the URL to
+ the best alternative for the particular user, even for a
+ never-before-seen repository on the site. The effect of
+ having multiple `insteadOf` values from different
+ `<base>` match to an URL is undefined.
+
user.email::
Your email address to be recorded in any newly created commits.
Can be overridden by the 'GIT_AUTHOR_EMAIL', 'GIT_COMMITTER_EMAIL', and
diff --git a/Documentation/urls.txt b/Documentation/urls.txt
index 81ac17f..fa34c67 100644
--- a/Documentation/urls.txt
+++ b/Documentation/urls.txt
@@ -44,3 +44,26 @@ endif::git-clone[]
ifdef::git-clone[]
They are equivalent, except the former implies --local option.
endif::git-clone[]
+
+
+If there are a large number of similarly-named remote repositories and
+you want to use a different format for them (such that the URLs you
+use will be rewritten into URLs that work), you can create a
+configuration section of the form:
+
+------------
+ [url "<actual url base>"]
+ insteadOf = <other url base>
+------------
+
+For example, with this:
+
+------------
+ [url "git://git.host.xz/"]
+ insteadOf = host.xz:/path/to/
+ insteadOf = work:
+------------
+
+a URL like "work:repo.git" or like "host.xz:/path/to/repo.git" will be
+rewritten in any context that takes a URL to be "git://git.host.xz/repo.git".
+