Re: [PATCH/RFC 0/4] Providing mechanism to list available repositories

From: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Date: Jul 14, 2010, 19:11 UTC
Message-ID: <7viq4hyj3g.fsf@alter.siamese.dyndns.org>
In-Reply-To: <1279076475-27730-1-git-send-email-gdb@mit.edu>

Greg Brockman <gdb@MIT.EDU> writes:

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> We find this mechanism useful in that it requires no extra
> infrastructure on either our end or the user's end.  Our
> implementation is extensible, allowing the system administrator to
> place arbitrary commands in ~/git-shell-commands (if the directory is
> omitted, no extra functionality is exposed), and also supports an
> interactive mode.
>
> What do people think of this approach?  I'd love to get this
> functionality merged in some form.

It seems to me that any time you need to add a new helper command, the administrator needs to make sure that appears in ~$user/git-shell-commands of all the users who need it. When adding a new user, a similar management action needs to happen. Perhaps that is done by making a symlink from all the users' home directories to one shared place. Is that the general idea?

In any case, I'd prefer that the sample command implementations like list and help to live in contrib/ somewhere. They are not part of what the main Makefile needs to know about, right?