From: Junio C Hamano <junkio@cox.net>
Date: Fri, 03 Feb 2006 20:52:46 GMT
Subject: Re: [PATCH 3/3] daemon: Support a --user-path option.
Message-ID: <7vr76kcggx.fsf@assigned-by-dhcp.cox.net>
In-Reply-To: <20060203202706.1895.70864.stgit@metalzone.distorted.org.uk>

Mark Wooding <mdw@distorted.org.uk> writes:

> If we're invoked with --user-path=FOO option, then a URL of the form
> git://~USER/PATH/... resolves to the path HOME/FOO/PATH/..., where HOME
> is USER's home directory.

I am probably slow as usual but I do not see how this is useful.

Wouldn't loosening the "request must be absolute if you use
--base-path" check in the area your first patch in the series
touches to also allow paths that start with a '~' be enough?
That way ~alice/foo would remain to be /home/alice/foo (with
/home/alice being alice's $HOME) and ~becky/bar would be
/home2/becky/bar (with /home2/becky being becky's $HOME).

I suppose you are doing something similar to ~/public_html, but
I think that is an independent feature.