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From: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
To: Luke Shumaker <lukeshu@sbcglobal.net>
Cc: git@vger.kernel.org, pclouds@gmail.com, peff@peff.net
Subject: Re: [PATCH] daemon, path.c: fix a bug with ~ in repo paths
Date: Tue, 18 Oct 2016 10:08:45 -0700	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <xmqqvawppote.fsf@gitster.mtv.corp.google.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20161018150629.23205-1-lukeshu@sbcglobal.net> (Luke Shumaker's message of "Tue, 18 Oct 2016 11:06:29 -0400")

Luke Shumaker <lukeshu@sbcglobal.net> writes:

> The superficial aspect of this change is that git-daemon now allows paths
> that start with a "~".  Previously, if git-daemon was run with
> "--base-path=/srv/git", it was impossible to get it to serve
> "/srv/git/~foo/bar.git".

I am not sure I understand what you are saying here.  Do you mean

    I have a path on my server /srv/git/~foo/bar.git; the tilde does
    not mean anything special--it is just a byte in a valid pathname.

    I want to allow my users to say

	git fetch git://my.server/~foo/bar.git

    and fetch from that repository, but "git daemon" lacks the way
    to configure to allow it.

If that is the case, what happens instead?  Due to the leading
"~foo/" getting noticed as an attempt to use the user-path expansion
it is not treated as just a literal character?

I am not sure if it is even a bug.  As you can easily lose that
tilde that appears in front of subdirectory of /srv/git/ or replace
it with something else (e.g. "u/"), this smells like "Don't do it if
it hurts" thing to me.


  reply	other threads:[~2016-10-18 17:09 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 7+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2016-10-18 15:06 [PATCH] daemon, path.c: fix a bug with ~ in repo paths Luke Shumaker
2016-10-18 17:08 ` Junio C Hamano [this message]
2016-10-18 18:05   ` Luke Shumaker
2016-10-19 14:12     ` Duy Nguyen
2016-10-21 15:58       ` Junio C Hamano
2016-10-21 18:23         ` Junio C Hamano
2016-10-22  3:26           ` Jeff King

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