git-daemon --base-path

Tommi Virtanen expressed a wish on #git to be able to use short and elegant
git URLs by making git-daemon 'root' in a given directory. This patch
implements this, causing git-daemon to interpret all paths relative to
the given base path if any is given.

Signed-off-by: Petr Baudis <pasky@suse.cz>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <junkio@cox.net>

diff --git a/Documentation/git-daemon.txt b/Documentation/git-daemon.txt
index 33f3320e287bc7eddd1a353b4468338b8f85e356..a20e0533fcfc1ed2c9940021ab65ef2967f16856 100644 (file)
--- a/Documentation/git-daemon.txt
+++ b/Documentation/git-daemon.txt
@@ -9,7 +9,8 @@ SYNOPSIS
 --------
 [verse]
 'git-daemon' [--verbose] [--syslog] [--inetd | --port=n] [--export-all]
-           [--timeout=n] [--init-timeout=n] [--strict-paths] [directory...]
+             [--timeout=n] [--init-timeout=n] [--strict-paths]
+             [--base-path=path] [directory...]
 
 DESCRIPTION
 -----------
@@ -36,6 +37,14 @@ OPTIONS
        git-daemon will refuse to start when this option is enabled and no
        whitelist is specified.
 
+--base-path::
+       Remap all the path requests as relative to the given path.
+       This is sort of "GIT root" - if you run git-daemon with
+       '--base-path=/srv/git' on example.com, then if you later try to pull
+       'git://example.com/hello.git', `git-daemon` will interpret the path
+       as '/srv/git/hello.git'. Home directories (the '~login' notation)
+       access is disabled.
+
 --export-all::
        Allow pulling from all directories that look like GIT repositories
        (have the 'objects' and 'refs' subdirectories), even if they

diff --git a/daemon.c b/daemon.c
index 539f6e87af9824ea331326ade71e343698e235fe..3bd14269d7e779630c1b00a3cf8a8cdba96ffc27 100644 (file)
--- a/daemon.c
+++ b/daemon.c
@@ -15,7 +15,8 @@ static int verbose;
 
 static const char daemon_usage[] =
 "git-daemon [--verbose] [--syslog] [--inetd | --port=n] [--export-all]\n"
-"           [--timeout=n] [--init-timeout=n] [--strict-paths] [directory...]";
+"           [--timeout=n] [--init-timeout=n] [--strict-paths]\n"
+"           [--base-path=path] [directory...]";
 
 /* List of acceptable pathname prefixes */
 static char **ok_paths = NULL;
@@ -24,6 +25,9 @@ static int strict_paths = 0;
 /* If this is set, git-daemon-export-ok is not required */
 static int export_all_trees = 0;
 
+/* Take all paths relative to this one if non-NULL */
+static char *base_path = NULL;
+
 /* Timeout, and initial timeout */
 static unsigned int timeout = 0;
 static unsigned int init_timeout = 0;
@@ -138,6 +142,17 @@ static char *path_ok(char *dir)
                return NULL;
        }
 
+       if (base_path) {
+               static char rpath[PATH_MAX];
+               if (*dir != '/') {
+                       /* Forbid possible base-path evasion using ~paths. */
+                       logerror("'%s': Non-absolute path denied (base-path active)");
+                       return NULL;
+               }
+               snprintf(rpath, PATH_MAX, "%s%s", base_path, dir);
+               dir = rpath;
+       }
+
        path = enter_repo(dir, strict_paths);
 
        if (!path) {
@@ -639,6 +654,10 @@ int main(int argc, char **argv)
                        strict_paths = 1;
                        continue;
                }
+               if (!strncmp(arg, "--base-path=", 12)) {
+                       base_path = arg+12;
+                       continue;
+               }
                if (!strcmp(arg, "--")) {
                        ok_paths = &argv[i+1];
                        break;