On Mon, Oct 25, 2010 at 08:24:47AM -0700, J.H. wrote: > 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 have no problem with /var/git - it's /var/cache/git that worries me, since the FHS quite clearly says that blowing away /var/cache/* is not a problem. It makes sense to back up /var/lib/ on any machine, since that's somewhere that contains application data. We already back up a few things from /var/lib (like /var/lib/svn for example, at least until we finish this switchover!) Bron. -- 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