Re: Why /var/cache/git?

From: Drew Northup <drew.northup@maine.edu>
Date: Oct 26, 2010, 13:21 UTC
Message-ID: <1288099299.8291.6.camel@drew-northup.unet.maine.edu>
In-Reply-To: <20101026012224.GA3360@brong.net>

On Tue, 2010-10-26 at 12:22 +1100, Bron Gondwana wrote:

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> On Mon, Oct 25, 2010 at 08:24:47AM -0700, J.H. wrote:
> > On 10/25/2010 03:30 AM, Bron Gondwana wrote:
> > > (resent - correct address for git list!)
> > > 
> > > (Gerrit: you're CC'd as the attribution in README.Debian
> > >  which in the one place I can see /var/cache/git mentioned
> > >  in the docs - without a justification for why it was
> > >  chosen...)
> > 
> > Couple of quick points:
> > 
> > $ grep -Ri "/var/git\|\/var\/git" *
> > Documentation/git-cvsserver.txt:     export
> > CVSROOT=:ext:user@server:/var/git/project.git
> > 
> > gitweb/README:    RewriteRule ^/var(/|/gitweb.cgi)?$	
> > /cgi-bin/gitweb.cgi [QSA,E=GITWEB_PROJECTROOT:/var/git/,L,PT]
> > 
> > gitweb/README:Second, repositories found in /pub/scm/ and /var/git/ will
> > be accesible
> > 
> > Are the only 3 instances where this is mentioned.  Looking at those
> > quick it was probably chosen based on the fact that it's a location that
> > likely exists on most machines.  Or just for explanatory reasons like
> > /example/dir/project.git could be used.
> 
> I have no problem with /var/git - it's /var/cache/git that worries
> me, since the FHS quite clearly says that blowing away /var/cache/*
> is not a problem.  It makes sense to back up /var/lib/ on any machine,
> since that's somewhere that contains application data.  We already
> back up a few things from /var/lib (like /var/lib/svn for example,
> at least until we finish this switchover!)

Bron, Doing a 'git grep "/var"' on the git sources and then searching that output for "cache" turns up nothing. I think you'd best bring this up with the Debian package maintainer. Debian is well known for thinking it knows better than the original authors where stuff should be--and that's why I don't run Debian as a server (too much time spent transliterating paths just to make stuff work properly--when I'm lucky; it makes an excellent desktop for beginners).

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-Drew Northup N1XIM
   AKA RvnPhnx on OPN
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