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From: "H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@zytor.com>
To: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
Cc: Git Mailing List <git@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: git-daemon: path validation, export all option
Date: Tue, 27 Sep 2005 08:36:18 -0700	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <433966F2.3090304@zytor.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <Pine.LNX.4.58.0509270802140.3308@g5.osdl.org>

Linus Torvalds wrote:
> 
> Removing the "chdir(".git")" thing is very wrong, though. Why do it?
> 
> It's very much on purpose: you can export even "regular" git trees (ie 
> trees you have checked out) without the other side having to say
> 
> 	git clone machine.com:/home/torvalds/v2.6/linux/.git
> 
> where the final "/.git" is just stupid.
> 

Agreed.  I wasn't thinking too hard about it, and it doesn't do any harm 
since failure is ignored.

	-hpa

      reply	other threads:[~2005-09-27 15:36 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 7+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2005-09-27  2:13 git-daemon: path validation, export all option H. Peter Anvin
2005-09-27  4:19 ` Junio C Hamano
2005-09-27  8:30   ` Anton Altaparmakov
2005-09-27 16:14   ` H. Peter Anvin
2005-09-27 16:56     ` Junio C Hamano
2005-09-27 15:03 ` Linus Torvalds
2005-09-27 15:36   ` H. Peter Anvin [this message]

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