Re: Make Gitweb behave like Apache mod_userdir

From: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Date: Nov 18, 2009, 00:14 UTC
Message-ID: <7vr5rw8zap.fsf@alter.siamese.dyndns.org>
In-Reply-To: <4B0338F9.9000608@eaglescrag.net>

"J.H." <warthog19@eaglescrag.net> writes:

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> Junio C Hamano wrote:
>
>> I am not objecting but showing my ignorance, but why is it a bad idea to
>> allow
>>
>> 	http://git.kernel.org/~junio/git.git
>>
>> to map to /home/junio/pubilic_git/git.git when
>>
>> 	http://www.kernel.org/~junio/index.html
>>
>> maps to /home/junio/public_html/index.html already?
>
> I'm not objecting to the mapping, I'm objecting to the use of the ~
> specifically, since that's the default for mod_userdir - it's more or
> less a race condition waiting to happen with respect to does
> mod_rewrite get to and process it first or does mod_userdir.

Yeah, thanks for explaining it to me. I realized the overlap between them immediately after I sent the message out X-<.

	http://site.xz/users/gitster/git.git

(or anything that does not override "~name") sounds good to me.