From: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Date: Tue, 17 Nov 2009 23:46:45 GMT
Subject: Re: Make Gitweb behave like Apache mod_userdir
Message-ID: <7vskccaf4q.fsf@alter.siamese.dyndns.org>
In-Reply-To: <4B032AC8.4@eaglescrag.net>

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

> For starters I think overriding the /~<user> (specifically the ~ here)
> is going to be a bad idea no matter what you do and gives the wrong
> impression about what / how the request is being responded to.  You
> might want to try and pick a different delimiter or re-work the rule
> so that you could have something like:
>
> 	http://git.kernel.org/<gitweb urls>
> 	http://git.kernel.org/user/<gitweb urls>

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?