Re: [RFC PATCH v3 00/17] Return of smart HTTP

Mark Lodato [off-list ref] wrote:

The gitweb part is just bonus.  (The only thing for gitweb is the one
ScriptAlias line.)  The real challenge is getting git-http-backend to
serve repositories out of something other than DocumentRoot - say
DocumentRoot is /var/www/htdocs but your git repositories are in
/pub/git - which is why I posted the configuration.  If you'd like, I
can send you a patch to add this to the documentation.

Yes, a patch would be wonderful.
 

One idea to improve the situation is to first try
$GIT_PROJECT_ROOT$PATH_INFO, falling back to $PATH_TRANSLATED if
$GIT_PROJECT_ROOT is empty.  This would make the configuration simple:

-- 8< --
SetEnv GIT_PROJECT_ROOT /pub/git
ScriptAlias /git /usr/libexec/git-core/git-http-backend
-- >8 --

Oooh.  Perhaps a good idea.  :-)

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Shawn.