On 10/25/2010 03:30 AM, Bron Gondwana wrote: > (resent - correct address for git list!) > > (Gerrit: you're CC'd as the attribution in README.Debian > which in the one place I can see /var/cache/git mentioned > in the docs - without a justification for why it was > chosen...) Couple of quick points: $ grep -Ri "/var/git\|\/var\/git" * Documentation/git-cvsserver.txt: export CVSROOT=:ext:user@server:/var/git/project.git gitweb/README: RewriteRule ^/var(/|/gitweb.cgi)?$ /cgi-bin/gitweb.cgi [QSA,E=GITWEB_PROJECTROOT:/var/git/,L,PT] gitweb/README:Second, repositories found in /pub/scm/ and /var/git/ will be accesible Are the only 3 instances where this is mentioned. Looking at those quick it was probably chosen based on the fact that it's a location that likely exists on most machines. Or just for explanatory reasons like /example/dir/project.git could be used. > I'm setting up shared repositories on a machine, and I notice > all the examples I can find on the web, and also the > auto-created directory from the packages are /var/cache/git/ I can't speak for the web, it's a place filled with many many evil dirty lies, but the primary documentation should likely get updated to not actually shove perminant data into a transient location. Bonus that gitweb (caching) might use the directory for it's cache storage which could cause some amusement. > > So I looked at the FHS, because that seemed odd to me: [...] > I guess in theory, someone else has all those commits in their > local git repository somewhere. Still, it feels to me that > /var/lib/git is the correct location. Is there any reason why > /var/spool/git was chosen? Ummmm are you talking about for where a set of repositories exist on a shared setup? Personally, and depending on your beliefs as a sysadmin, it should likely end up under something like /home/git or some other shared location like /group/git, /pub/git, /shared/git or really anywhere where you are likely to do backups and not just run rm -rf because it should be a transient location. > (I'm running Debian Lenny with the 1.7.1 backport packages, but > I see examples from Fedora with the same paths as well) Speaking from the Fedora angle (since I don't have a Debian box handy anywhere or in a VM) the only places I'm seeing /var/git mentioned is: /usr/share/doc/git-1.7.2.3/git-cvsserver.txt /usr/share/doc/git-1.7.2.3/git-cvsserver.html /usr/share/doc/git-cvs-1.7.2.3/git-cvsserver.txt /usr/share/doc/git-cvs-1.7.2.3/git-cvsserver.html /usr/share/doc/git-cvs-1.7.2.3/git-cvsserver.html /usr/share/doc/gitweb-1.7.2.3/README /usr/share/doc/gitweb-caching-1.6.5.2/README which are the latest versions of all of those packages and it's obvious it's the git-cvs and gitweb stuff that are to blame for the confusion there. Probably easiest thing to do is adjust the documentation to be /example/dir/project.git vs. /var/git since I agree, that's actually dangerous. - John 'Warthog9' Hawley -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe git" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html