Thanks to a completely trivial patch on how git-daemon was used on alioth (namely adding a --user-path=public_git in the command line) it's now possible to have per user git repositories on git.debian.org.

You now have mirrors of my own git repositories, especially apt-listchanges on git://git.debian.org/~madcoder/apt-listchanges.git. That rocks.

Thanks a lot to Raphaël Herzog that kindly made the change.

Notes

  • if you want to do the same, you just have to create a public_git/ directory in your ${HOME}, it works for git-daemon like public_html does for httpd :)
  • your ${HOME} on alioth isn't backuped, but any git repository clone is a full backup so …