Re: [PATCH] git-daemon --base-path

Petr Baudis [off-list ref] writes:

Tommi Virtanen expressed a wish on #git to be able to use short and elegant
git URLs by making git-daemon 'root' in a given directory. This patch
implements this, causing git-daemon to interpret all paths relative to
the given base path if any is given.

This is much nicer than chrooting or having a symlink hanging
under /.  Another possibility would be to have ~git/ a symlink
to such directory and make it a whitelist -- then you do not
need this patch.  The URL would be "git://ho.st/~git/xxx" which
is short-and-sweet.

+		snprintf(rpath, PATH_MAX, "%s%s", base_path, dir);
+		dir = rpath;
+	}

We probably would want to verify base_path exists and is without
excess trailing slash when parsing arguments, if we are going to
do this.