Re: [PATCH] gitweb: Allow users to have their own project directories.

From: Jakub Narebski <jnareb@gmail.com>
Date: Jan 26, 2007, 13:44 UTC
Message-ID: <epd0id$a7e$1@sea.gmane.org>
In-Reply-To: <11697558112701-git-send-email-mdw@distorted.org.uk>

Mark Wooding wrote:

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> The git-daemon understands `~USER/...' as referring to a project within
> USER's home directory.  This change makes gitweb able to serve each
> user's personal projects without them all having to be linked into one
> place.
> 
> If the gitweb_config.perl file defines $user_path then a username given
> in the `u' argument, or as a leading `/~USER/' string in the PATH_INFO,
> causes gitweb to look for projects in $homedir/$user_path (where
> $homedir is USER's home directory).
> 
> Rather than expose all their projects, or the ones with an export file
> in them, a user can write a file listing the projects to be exported by
> gitweb.  (Maybe this ought to force strict_export on, but it doesn't at
> the moment.)
> 
> This patch leaves it as someone else's problem to actually work out
> which users have exported GIT repositories, and maybe compile them into
> a list.

Nice idea. Thanks.

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Jakub Narebski
Warsaw, Poland
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