From: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Date: Tue, 05 Jan 2010 08:23:25 GMT
Subject: Re: [PATCH v4] Smart-http documentation: add example of how to execute from userdir
Message-ID: <7veim52c5e.fsf@alter.siamese.dyndns.org>
In-Reply-To: <1262678381-86653-1-git-send-email-tarmigan+git@gmail.com>

Tarmigan Casebolt <tarmigan+git@gmail.com> writes:

> +Depending on the global configuration of the web server, the
> +"FollowSymLinks" or "SymLinksIfOwnerMatch" options might be needed.
> +If the web server does not follow any symbolic links, the
> +'git-http-backend' executable may be copied into the cgi-bin directory
> +and renamed to 'git' to acheive the same effect, but it will also need
> +to be manually updated whenever a new version of 'git-http-backend' is
> +installed.

Hmph, has Apache heard of hardlinks?  If not, wouldn't this be much
simpler?

    cat >git <<\EOF
    #!/bin/sh
    exec /path/to/libexec/git-core/git-http-backend "$@"
    EOF
    chmod +x git