From: Shawn O. Pearce <spearce@spearce.org>
Date: Fri, 16 Oct 2009 23:16:21 GMT
Subject: Re: [RFC PATCH v3 00/17] Return of smart HTTP
Message-ID: <20091016231621.GW10505@spearce.org>
In-Reply-To: <ca433830910161604g5a6bde76n26eb2b1e8155fb36@mail.gmail.com>

Mark Lodato <lodatom@gmail.com> wrote:
> The gitweb part is just bonus.  (The only thing for gitweb is the one
> ScriptAlias line.)  The real challenge is getting git-http-backend to
> serve repositories out of something other than DocumentRoot - say
> DocumentRoot is /var/www/htdocs but your git repositories are in
> /pub/git - which is why I posted the configuration.  If you'd like, I
> can send you a patch to add this to the documentation.

Yes, a patch would be wonderful.
 
> One idea to improve the situation is to first try
> $GIT_PROJECT_ROOT$PATH_INFO, falling back to $PATH_TRANSLATED if
> $GIT_PROJECT_ROOT is empty.  This would make the configuration simple:
> 
> -- 8< --
> SetEnv GIT_PROJECT_ROOT /pub/git
> ScriptAlias /git /usr/libexec/git-core/git-http-backend
> -- >8 --

Oooh.  Perhaps a good idea.  :-)

-- 
Shawn.