From: Dmitry Potapov <dpotapov@gmail.com>
Date: Mon, 25 Aug 2008 17:20:38 GMT
Subject: Re: [PATCH] "git shell" won't work, need "git-shell"
Message-ID: <37fcd2780808251020j1ef51b38h7c6d6e8f050a92ce@mail.gmail.com>
In-Reply-To: <20080825170816.GQ10544@machine.or.cz>

On Mon, Aug 25, 2008 at 9:08 PM, Petr Baudis <pasky@suse.cz> wrote:
>
> Can we agree that direct calls of libexec stuff should never be part of
> the "official" interface (i.e. not workarounds for deprecated usage)?

Agreed. It looks somewhat strange to type the libexec path in /etc/passwd.

> Considering that calling the git-shell executable directly is the _only_
> sensible way of using this interface, it should follow that it has to be
> in /usr/bin, no matter if users type this command or not.

Perhaps, /usr/sbin would be a better place, as it is intended only for
system administration binaries.

Dmitry