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Re: git-shell default working directory

From
Jeff King <peff@peff.net>
Date
Feb 26, 2020, 20:11 UTC
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<20200226201121.GA287048@coredump.intra.peff.net>
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On Wed, Feb 26, 2020 at 10:10:05AM +0100, Andrei Rybak wrote:
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> > I've not yet found a way to get this to work without keeping the
> > repositories in the git user's home folder.
> 
> Disclaimer: I'm not at all familiar with git server setup. Would it make sense
> to change git user home directory to be the required dedicated directory?

Yeah, that's what I would suggest. git-shell does explicitly cd to $HOME, so any chdir you do before then will be lost (though you could perhaps just set $HOME in ~/.ssh/rc).

-Peff
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