Move git repositories under /srv

[Suren A. Chilingaryan]

I just find out that your repositories are not backed up. All important server data should reside under /srv folder. It is much easier to manage it then and preserve between system updates :) Please, move it somewhere under /srv.

[Matthias Vogelgesang]

Can we have symlinks to /home/git/repositories? It is not really trivial to just move the repositories and symlinks are a reasonable way to still back them up.

A much better solution would be to update ufo.kit.edu to openSUSE >= 11.4 for two important reasons:

• Gitolite is included in the package repositories and after installation, the Git repositories are automatically put under /srv/git.
• Having an unsupported openSUSE 11.3 on a publicly exposed web server is probably a Bad Idea™

[Suren A. Chilingaryan]

OK. First of all, I'm, of course, backing up /home/git now. However, it would be much safer if we have everything in the expected location during the system updates, etc. Can we simply have repositories under /srv/git and symlinks from the home folder? Alternatively, I'd expect it should be possible to install gitonline from repository of OpenSuSE 11.4. It quite often work without problems. Upgrading the whole system will take a lot of time for re-fixing all the problems I have solved for current configuration and fighting the new ones. I want to avoid it unless really necessary. With only Apache and SSH servers exposed and no user access to the system, I don't think there is a significant security risk.