On 2020-02-26 01:48, Greg Anders wrote: > Hello, Hi Greg, > I'm working on standing up a self-hosted git server. I'd like to keep my > repositories under a dedicated directory, i.e. /srv/git, but I'd also > like to be able to clone a repository using a simple syntax: > > git clone git@myserver:repo.git > > as opposed to > > git clone git@myserver:/srv/git/repo.git > > I've not yet found a way to get this to work without keeping the > repositories in the git user's home folder. Disclaimer: I'm not at all familiar with git server setup. Would it make sense to change git user home directory to be the required dedicated directory? > I've tried using a ~/.ssh/rc > file to chdir into /srv/git and I've tried using the `command=` > parameter in the authorized_keys file; however, both of these fail > because `cd` is not recognized as a valid command by git-shell. > > I suppose I could create symlinks from the repositories in /srv/git into > /home/git, but I'm wondering if there's a cleaner way to do this? > > Thanks, > > Greg
