Scrapped right off the #git IRC channel...
<jdl> I stumbled across some git-daemon quirk for which I'd like opinions on
possible solutions. [18:56]
<jdl> I run a server that houses multiple virtual hosts on one physical
machine.
<jdl> It has multiple Apache based websites on it, and I want to front
multiple git repositories with gitweb. That all works fine. [18:57]
<jdl> But when I set up my repository stores, ie the /pub/scm/repo.git places,
it falls apart.
<jdl> I want to maintain separate sets of git repos for each virtual site.
[18:58]
<jdl> That is, www.foo.com can't see the repos of www.bar.com and vice versa.
<jdl> So I have an Apache directory set up that maps www.foo.com/pub/scm to
some place like /pub/foo/scm using an alias for /pub/scm. [18:59]
<jdl> Similarly, for www.bar.com I map /pub/scm to /pub/bar/scm
<jdl> Now, when I clone using http: all is well as it correctly maps the URL
using the Apache Alias entry. [19:00]
<jdl> However, when cloning via git: it doesn't do the Alias mapping based on
the given website prefix part of the URL.
<jdl> I would have to clone using git://www.foo.com/pub/foo/scm even though I
would clone using http://www.foo.com/pub/scm/ [19:01]
<jdl> So my proposed solution is to setup a genarlization of the git-daemon
-baser-path=path argument.
<jdl> Instead of a single --base-path, there are potentially multiple
--base-path entries that match multiple a URL prefixes. [19:02]
<jdl> Thus, I'd use something like:
--map-base=www.foo.com/pub/scm:/pub/foo/scm
--map-base=www.bar.com/pub/scm=/pub/bar/scm [19:04]
<dormando> mod_rewrite for git :|
<jdl> Quick prefix hack, yeah. [19:05]
<jdl> Um, stop me before I hack....? :-) [19:06]
<dormando> you're going to end up needing something that supports basic
regexes before long
<dormando> I can't think of many cases where you'd want to directly map like
that, and especially in that specific manner. [19:07]
<jdl> I can't hear you.
<dormando> sorry.
* dormando was going to have similar problems for his hosting serviceJon Loeliger <jdl@jdl.com>