Re: git-shell default working directory

[Andrei Rybak <rybak.a.v@gmail.com>]

On 2020-02-26 01:48, Greg Anders wrote:
> Hello,

Hi Greg,

> I'm working on standing up a self-hosted git server. I'd like to keep my
> repositories under a dedicated directory, i.e. /srv/git, but I'd also
> like to be able to clone a repository using a simple syntax:
>
> git clone git@myserver:repo.git
>
> as opposed to
>
> git clone git@myserver:/srv/git/repo.git
>
> I've not yet found a way to get this to work without keeping the
> repositories in the git user's home folder.

Disclaimer: I'm not at all familiar with git server setup. Would it make sense
to change git user home directory to be the required dedicated directory?

> I've tried using a ~/.ssh/rc
> file to chdir into /srv/git and I've tried using the `command=`
> parameter in the authorized_keys file; however, both of these fail
> because `cd` is not recognized as a valid command by git-shell.
>
> I suppose I could create symlinks from the repositories in /srv/git into
> /home/git, but I'm wondering if there's a cleaner way to do this?
>
> Thanks,
>
> Greg