From: "H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@zytor•com>
To: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl•org>
Cc: Jon Loeliger <jdl@jdl•com>, git@vger•kernel.org
Subject: Re: git daemon directory munging?
Date: Sun, 04 Jun 2006 16:08:51 -0700 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <44836803.5070405@zytor.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <Pine.LNX.4.64.0606031722340.5498@g5.osdl.org>
Linus Torvalds wrote:
>
> On Sat, 3 Jun 2006, Jon Loeliger wrote:
>> <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
>
> The bigger problem is that nothing actually passes in the hostname to
> git-daemon in the first place. By the time the git-daemon is contacted,
> the hostname is long gone ;(
Well, you can bind different git daemons to different IP addresses
(IP-based vhosting) or different ports (with SRV records in DNS.)
> Now, you can just extend the git protocol to just pass in the host too.
>
> You can in fact do this in a backwards-compatible manner (old git-daemons
> will just ignore it, and new git daemons will automatically notice new
> clients) with something evil like the appended.
>
That's actually what was done to HTTP.
> Not tested (and this actualyl doesn't make the daemon _use_ the data, it
> just adds a comment - the rest "is left as an exercise for the reader")
-hpa
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2006-06-04 23:09 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 7+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2006-06-04 0:13 git daemon directory munging? Jon Loeliger
2006-06-04 0:42 ` Linus Torvalds
2006-06-04 6:27 ` Junio C Hamano
2006-06-04 23:10 ` H. Peter Anvin
2006-06-04 23:08 ` H. Peter Anvin [this message]
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2006-06-05 2:10 Jon Loeliger
2006-06-05 2:59 ` H. Peter Anvin
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