Package: gitweb Version: 1:1.7.10.4-2 At present, gitweb expects to find the repositories in /var/cache/git by default. However, as the FHS specifies:
/var/cache is intended for cached data from applications. Such data is locally generated as a result of time-consuming I/O or calculation. The application must be able to regenerate or restore the data. Unlike /var/spool, the cached files can be deleted without data loss. The data must remain valid between invocations of the application and rebooting the system. Files located under /var/cache may be expired in an application specific manner, by the system administrator, or both. The application must always be able to recover from manual deletion of these files (generally because of a disk space shortage). No other requirements are made on the data format of the cache directories. This is very different from git, which expects its data to be preserved, and for which deletion of the data would certainly lead to data loss. Having this as the default could lead to situations in which data is lost, if sysadmins are not careful. The obvious alternatives are /var/lib/git or /srv/git, which are both designed for data. My preference is for /srv/git, as the git data is not so much state information as it is user data. Julian -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-bugs-dist-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
