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Re: [PATCH] "git shell" won't work, need "git-shell"

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Aug 25, 2008, 17:26 UTC
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On Mon, Aug 25, 2008 at 09:20:38PM +0400, Dmitry Potapov wrote:
> Perhaps, /usr/sbin would be a better place, as it is intended only for
> system administration binaries.

I'd argue that git-shell isn't *exclusively* for root, which is the criteria for sbin. It's pretty easy to imagine a user setting up their own ~/.ssh/authorized_keys with a special passphraseless key that can only do git operations.

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  1. "git shell" won't work, need "git-shell"Tommi Virtanen, Aug 24, 2008
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  12. 1/2 git wrapper: Make while loop more reader-friendlyJohannes Schindelin, Aug 25, 2008
  13. 2/2 git wrapper: execute git-shell when argv[1] is '-c'Johannes Schindelin, Aug 25, 2008
  14. Tommi VirtanenAug 25, 2008
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  21. Petr BaudisAug 25, 2008
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  25. Johannes SchindelinAug 25, 2008
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  27. Mike HommeyAug 25, 2008
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