Junio C Hamano wrote: > Andreas Ericsson <ae@op5.se> writes: > > >>>Also places we execute git-upload-pack and git-receive-pack over >>>an SSH connection need to be updated to execute 'git' with the >>>first parameter 'upload-pack' and 'receive-pack' to make sure it >>>would keep working with older or newer git on the other end. >> >>I've cooked up a patch that takes care of this if; >> git daemon >>is executed (rather than git-daemon)... > > > Actually I was more worried about these git native protocols > going over ssh, which is not helped by git-daemon. I think > teaching the libdir to git-shell would make sense for "git > restricted shell" users, but most users coming from ssh to run > git native protocols would need to have some way of running the > executable on the other end. > > My current thinking about this problem is that the handful > programs that need to run "on the other end" should stay in > /usr/bin, even after we move most things out of /usr/bin, if > only to avoid configuration hassles. They are: > > receive-pack, upload-pack > ssh-fetch, ssh-pull, ssh-push, ssh-upload > I liked your suggestion of deprecating the /usr/bin use a month or two before it's effected better. We could then provide symlinks for the necessary programs that point to their real locations in GIT_EXEC_PATH and (someday) drop those links when they're no longer needed. > > Somehow libdir reminds me of where libraries are installed by > the Makefile, which usually does not mean executables, and that > was the reason I mentioned --exec-path. Although I do not have > strong preference myself either way, I do not think the list > cares too much either, so in order not to waste time by > indecision, let's just say we use this one: > > >>The form will be >> exec_path=$(prefix)/lib/git-@@VERSION@@ >> GIT_EXEC_PATH >> --exec-path >> >>for Makefile, environment and 'git', respectively. Substitute the >>obvious part with whatever you prefer. > > >>..., although I'm implementing Linus' idea of prepending the >>GIT_EXEC_PATH to $PATH so the porcelainish scripts in git-core >>shouldn't have to do it. > > > This sounds good to me; let's go with it. Thanks. > I'll get busy then. -- Andreas Ericsson andreas.ericsson@op5.se OP5 AB www.op5.se Tel: +46 8-230225 Fax: +46 8-230231 - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe git" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.htmlReceived on Mon Nov 14 20:24:05 2005
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