From: Adam Nielsen <adam.nielsen@uq.edu.au>
Date: Thu, 14 Jan 2010 00:45:59 GMT
Subject: Re: Unable to get "pretty" URL aliases working
Message-ID: <4B4E6947.2020009@uq.edu.au>
In-Reply-To: <7vockytrwy.fsf@alter.siamese.dyndns.org>

>> What actually happens when you use the ssh:// style connection?
> 
> Be it ssh://host/full/path or host:/full/path or host:path/in/home, you
> log in as whatver ssh identifies you as to the server, and start a
> server-side git process over there.

Ah ok, that makes more sense.  Strange then if it's a server-side git 
process that it ignores the server's /etc/gitconfig where aliases can be 
set up.

> With ssh://host/path notation, there is no way to specify any relative
> path (i.e. "/path" part begins at root) so it will mean the same thing for
> everybody (unless you are getting chrooted or something), while host:path
> notation allows relative path which will be taken relative as where you
> are, i.e. home directory of the user on the server.

In that case I symlinked my repository folder to /git so that SSH users 
can "cd /git/project.git" and this seems to work well.  I can now use 
git URLs like ssh://server/git/project.git even though the repos are 
buried much deeper down in the tree.

Thanks for the explanations!

Cheers,
Adam.