From: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Date: Tue, 21 Apr 2009 08:13:17 GMT
Subject: Re: [PATCH v2] Allow git-shell to be used as a ssh forced-command
Message-ID: <7vbpqqa0gy.fsf@gitster.siamese.dyndns.org>
In-Reply-To: <1240292586-28192-1-git-send-email-mh@glandium.org>

Mike Hommey <mh@glandium.org> writes:

> When using a forced-command, OpenSSH sets the SSH_ORIGINAL_COMMAND
> variable to what would otherwise be passed to $SHELL -c. When this
> variable is set and git-shell was given no argument, we use it.

I might be being extremely slow, but I had an impression that I saw only
the downsides discussed in the earlier thread and did not see what use
case this is supposed to help.

Is it a valid question to ask "what's wrong with gitosis"?