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git-shell default working directory

From
Greg Anders <greg@gpanders.com>
Date
Feb 26, 2020, 00:48 UTC
Message-ID
<20200226004830.oxd5562v7qqspnkk@Kepler>
Hello,

I'm working on standing up a self-hosted git server. I'd like to keep my repositories under a dedicated directory, i.e. /srv/git, but I'd also like to be able to clone a repository using a simple syntax:

     git clone git@myserver:repo.git
as opposed to
     git clone git@myserver:/srv/git/repo.git

I've not yet found a way to get this to work without keeping the repositories in the git user's home folder. I've tried using a ~/.ssh/rc file to chdir into /srv/git and I've tried using the `command=` parameter in the authorized_keys file; however, both of these fail because `cd` is not recognized as a valid command by git-shell.

I suppose I could create symlinks from the repositories in /srv/git into /home/git, but I'm wondering if there's a cleaner way to do this?

Thanks,
Greg
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