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From: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
To: Tarmigan Casebolt <tarmigan+git@gmail.com>
Cc: git@vger.kernel.org, Tay Ray Chuan <rctay89@gmail.com>,
	"Shawn O. Pearce" <spearce@spearce.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH v4] Smart-http documentation: add example of how to execute from userdir
Date: Tue, 05 Jan 2010 00:23:25 -0800	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <7veim52c5e.fsf@alter.siamese.dyndns.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1262678381-86653-1-git-send-email-tarmigan+git@gmail.com> (Tarmigan Casebolt's message of "Mon\,  4 Jan 2010 23\:59\:41 -0800")

Tarmigan Casebolt <tarmigan+git@gmail.com> writes:

> +Depending on the global configuration of the web server, the
> +"FollowSymLinks" or "SymLinksIfOwnerMatch" options might be needed.
> +If the web server does not follow any symbolic links, the
> +'git-http-backend' executable may be copied into the cgi-bin directory
> +and renamed to 'git' to acheive the same effect, but it will also need
> +to be manually updated whenever a new version of 'git-http-backend' is
> +installed.

Hmph, has Apache heard of hardlinks?  If not, wouldn't this be much
simpler?

    cat >git <<\EOF
    #!/bin/sh
    exec /path/to/libexec/git-core/git-http-backend "$@"
    EOF
    chmod +x git

  reply	other threads:[~2010-01-05  8:23 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 14+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2009-12-26 17:07 [PATCH] Smart-http documentation: add example of how to execute from userdir Tarmigan Casebolt
2009-12-27  3:19 ` Tay Ray Chuan
2009-12-28  4:18   ` Tarmigan
2009-12-28  4:46     ` [PATCH v2] " Tarmigan Casebolt
2009-12-31  2:18       ` Tay Ray Chuan
2010-01-02 21:18         ` [PATCH v3] " Tarmigan Casebolt
2010-01-03  2:11           ` Tay Ray Chuan
2010-01-03  8:34           ` Junio C Hamano
2010-01-04 14:06             ` Shawn O. Pearce
2010-01-05  7:59               ` Tarmigan
2010-01-05  7:59                 ` [PATCH v4] " Tarmigan Casebolt
2010-01-05  8:23                   ` Junio C Hamano [this message]
2009-12-27 21:15 ` [PATCH] " Shawn O. Pearce
2009-12-28  4:06   ` Tarmigan

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