From: Mike Hommey <mh@glandium.org>
Date: Tue, 21 Apr 2009 09:09:39 GMT
Subject: Re: [PATCH v2] Allow git-shell to be used as a ssh forced-command
Message-ID: <20090421090939.GA6788@glandium.org>
In-Reply-To: <7vbpqqa0gy.fsf@gitster.siamese.dyndns.org>

On Tue, Apr 21, 2009 at 01:13:17AM -0700, Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com> wrote:
> Mike Hommey <mh@glandium.org> writes:
> 
> > When using a forced-command, OpenSSH sets the SSH_ORIGINAL_COMMAND
> > variable to what would otherwise be passed to $SHELL -c. When this
> > variable is set and git-shell was given no argument, we use it.
> 
> I might be being extremely slow, but I had an impression that I saw only
> the downsides discussed in the earlier thread and did not see what use
> case this is supposed to help.
> 
> Is it a valid question to ask "what's wrong with gitosis"?

Why use gitosis where all you need is git-shell?

Mike