Changeset 3741962 for general/prog/gitserver.xml

Timestamp:

01/12/2021 08:44:00 AM (3 years ago)

Author:

Thomas Trepl <thomas@…>

Branches:

10.1, 11.0, 11.1, 11.2, 11.3, 12.0, 12.1, kea, ken/TL2024, ken/inkscape-core-mods, ken/tuningfonts, lazarus, lxqt, plabs/newcss, plabs/python-mods, python3.11, qt5new, rahul/power-profiles-daemon, renodr/vulkan-addition, trunk, upgradedb, xry111/intltool, xry111/llvm18, xry111/soup3, xry111/test-20220226, xry111/xf86-video-removal

Children:

e342f1a

Parents:

c513d6e6

Message:

Add a note to hide absolte paths to projects

git-svn-id: svn://svn.linuxfromscratch.org/BLFS/trunk/BOOK@24110 af4574ff-66df-0310-9fd7-8a98e5e911e0

File:

• general/prog/gitserver.xml (modified) (2 diffs)

general/prog/gitserver.xml

@@ -218 +218 @@
           distiguished as the local user name (see
           <filename>~/.gitconfig</filename>) is recorded in the
-          changesets.</para>
+          changesets.
+        </para>
       </note>
 
@@ -228 +229 @@
         for public read-only access.
       </para>
+
+      <para>
+        In the URL used to clone the project, the absolute path (here 
+        <filename>/srv/git/project1.git</filename>) has to be specified
+        as the repository is not in git's home directory but in
+        <filename class="directory">/srv/git</filename>. To get rid of the
+        need to expose the structure of the server installation, a symlink
+        can be added in git's home directory for each project like this:
+      </para>
+<screen role="nodump"><userinput>ln -svf /srv/git/project1.git /home/git/</userinput></screen>
+
+      <para>
+        Now, the repository can be cloned using
+      </para>
+<screen role="nodump"><userinput>git clone git@gitserver:project1.git</userinput></screen>
 
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