1How to use git-daemon 2 3Git can be run in inetd mode and in stand alone mode. But all you want is 4let a coworker pull from you, and therefore need to set up a git server 5real quick, right? 6 7Note that git-daemon is not really chatty at the moment, especially when 8things do not go according to plan (e.g. a socket could not be bound). 9 10Another word of warning: if you run 11 12 $ git ls-remote git://127.0.0.1/rule-the-world.git 13 14and you see a message like 15 16 fatal: The remote end hung up unexpectedly 17 18it only means that _something_ went wrong. To find out _what_ went wrong, 19you have to ask the server. (Git refuses to be more precise for your 20security only. Take off your shoes now. You have any coins in your pockets? 21Sorry, not allowed -- who knows what you planned to do with them?) 22 23With these two caveats, let's see an example: 24 25 $ git daemon --reuseaddr --verbose --base-path=/home/gitte/git \ 26 --export-all -- /home/gitte/git/rule-the-world.git 27 28(Of course, unless your user name is `gitte` _and_ your repository is in 29~/rule-the-world.git, you have to adjust the paths. If your repository is 30not bare, be aware that you have to type the path to the .git directory!) 31 32This invocation tries to reuse the address if it is already taken 33(this can save you some debugging, because otherwise killing and restarting 34git-daemon could just silently fail to bind to a socket). 35 36Also, it is (relatively) verbose when somebody actually connects to it. 37It also sets the base path, which means that all the projects which can be 38accessed using this daemon have to reside in or under that path. 39 40The option `--export-all` just means that you _don't_ have to create a 41file named `git-daemon-export-ok` in each exported repository. (Otherwise, 42git-daemon would complain loudly, and refuse to cooperate.) 43 44Last of all, the repository which should be exported is specified. It is 45a good practice to put the paths after a "--" separator. 46 47Now, test your daemon with 48 49 $ git ls-remote git://127.0.0.1/rule-the-world.git 50 51If this does not work, find out why, and submit a patch to this document.