git-shell default working directory

[Greg Anders <greg@gpanders.com>]

Hello,

I'm working on standing up a self-hosted git server. I'd like to keep my 
repositories under a dedicated directory, i.e. /srv/git, but I'd also 
like to be able to clone a repository using a simple syntax:

     git clone git@myserver:repo.git

as opposed to

     git clone git@myserver:/srv/git/repo.git

I've not yet found a way to get this to work without keeping the 
repositories in the git user's home folder. I've tried using a ~/.ssh/rc 
file to chdir into /srv/git and I've tried using the `command=` 
parameter in the authorized_keys file; however, both of these fail 
because `cd` is not recognized as a valid command by git-shell.

I suppose I could create symlinks from the repositories in /srv/git into 
/home/git, but I'm wondering if there's a cleaner way to do this?

Thanks,

Greg