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Created by: qfox

If I pass symlinked path to configs my hooks doesn't work properly. Really discouraged bug. Probably it could be easily fixed on the config/initializers layer.

Created by: qfox

Use case: If you put git home directory to another device and symlink that to /home/git it will skip all push events because post_receive will send real path to repo. And PostReceive::perform will not work. I see it in logs.

By Administrator on 2013-02-08T01:31:15 (imported from GitLab project)

Created by: laradji

I think i have this one, how can i test this ?

By Administrator on 2013-02-26T09:08:29 (imported from GitLab project)

Created by: zzet

@zxqfox Can you get more information?

We put git homedir into var: /var/git All repositories are placed into /var/git/repositories App placed in /some_dir/gitlab/releases/release_num/

As you see, we not use default configs, but all is good.

By Administrator on 2013-02-26T10:52:31 (imported from GitLab project)

Created by: qfox

@zzet I'm sure you will catch that bug when you move /var/git to /other/var/git, and then make a symlink from original to other path. mv /var/git /other/var/git && ln -s /other/var/git /var/git. I think the real trouble with symlinks because name of repo calculates from paths.

By Administrator on 2013-02-26T12:52:05 (imported from GitLab project)

Created by: zzet

No. At first time we placed git user homedir on /home/git and created symlink to repositories: ln -s /var/git/repositories /home/git/repositories. No problems founded.

@zxqfox why you create symlink? mb better to edit /etc/passwd with new homedir path?

By Administrator on 2013-02-26T12:57:55 (imported from GitLab project)

Created by: qfox

@zzet Probably much better, But I believe it shouldn't crash with symlinks. Does that bug can be fixed using Pathname::realpath ?

By Administrator on 2013-02-26T19:25:28 (imported from GitLab project)

Created by: zzet

@zxqfox I can not exactly answer now. Need tests and time. I think that this should solve the problem.

By Administrator on 2013-02-26T19:46:10 (imported from GitLab project)

Created by: dosire

Moved to http://feedback.gitlab.com/forums/176466-general/suggestions/3788046-support-symlinked-paths

By Administrator on 2013-03-27T08:56:47 (imported from GitLab project)