From: H. Peter Anvin <hpa@zytor.com>
Date: Tue, 25 Oct 2005 16:53:06 GMT
Subject: Re: [RFC] GIT paths
Message-ID: <435E62F2.6050400@zytor.com>
In-Reply-To: <435E259D.3040701@op5.se>

Andreas Ericsson wrote:
>>
>>  - Over a git-daemon connection, supporting ~user expansion
>>    makes sense.  E.g git://host.xz/~junio/ refers to my home
>>    directory on that machine.  It would make it impossible to
>>    have a directory literally named '~junio' directly underneath
>>    the root directory, but that is a good limitation anyway.
>>
> 
> I like this idea, although I'd extend it with a Userdir-like config 
> option in git-daemon (like ~/public_html for apache). This makes it a 
> bit easier to see what's published and what isn't.
> 

I've found that whenever one does a network daemon which exports paths, 
sooner or later one wants namespace management.  In Linux, of course, 
there are a lot more tricks one can play to actually create the 
namespace one wants in the filesystem (although it's complicated by 
needing to have an exec-worthy environment.)

It might be worth to consider creating a library to do this.

	-hpa