--base-path-relaxed option

I switched git.kernel.dk to --base-path a few minutes ago, to get rid of
a /data/git postfix in the posted urls. But transitioning is tricky,
since now all old paths will fail miserably.

So I added this --base-path-relaxed option, that will make git-daemon
try the absolute path without prefixing --base-path before giving up.
With this in place and --base-path-relaxed added, both my new url of

    git://git.kernel.dk/linux-2.6-block.git

and the old

    git://git.kernel.dk/data/git/linux-2.6-block.git

work fine.

Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <jens.axboe@oracle.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>

1 files changed, 6 insertions, 0 deletions

diff --git a/Documentation/git-daemon.txt b/Documentation/git-daemon.txt
index 4b30b18..f902161 100644
--- a/Documentation/git-daemon.txt
+++ b/Documentation/git-daemon.txt
@@ -54,6 +54,12 @@ OPTIONS
 	'git://example.com/hello.git', `git-daemon` will interpret the path
 	as '/srv/git/hello.git'.
 
+--base-path-relaxed::
+	If --base-path is enabled and repo lookup fails, with this option
+	`git-daemon` will attempt to lookup without prefixing the base path.
+	This is useful for switching to --base-path usage, while still
+	allowing the old paths.
+
 --interpolated-path=pathtemplate::
 	To support virtual hosting, an interpolated path template can be
 	used to dynamically construct alternate paths.  The template