1Content-type: text/asciidoc 2 3How to use git-daemon 4===================== 5 6Git can be run in inetd mode and in stand alone mode. But all you want is 7let a coworker pull from you, and therefore need to set up a git server 8real quick, right? 9 10Note that git-daemon is not really chatty at the moment, especially when 11things do not go according to plan (e.g. a socket could not be bound). 12 13Another word of warning: if you run 14 15 $ git ls-remote git://127.0.0.1/rule-the-world.git 16 17and you see a message like 18 19 fatal: The remote end hung up unexpectedly 20 21it only means that _something_ went wrong. To find out _what_ went wrong, 22you have to ask the server. (Git refuses to be more precise for your 23security only. Take off your shoes now. You have any coins in your pockets? 24Sorry, not allowed -- who knows what you planned to do with them?) 25 26With these two caveats, let's see an example: 27 28 $ git daemon --reuseaddr --verbose --base-path=/home/gitte/git \ 29 --export-all -- /home/gitte/git/rule-the-world.git 30 31(Of course, unless your user name is `gitte` _and_ your repository is in 32~/rule-the-world.git, you have to adjust the paths. If your repository is 33not bare, be aware that you have to type the path to the .git directory!) 34 35This invocation tries to reuse the address if it is already taken 36(this can save you some debugging, because otherwise killing and restarting 37git-daemon could just silently fail to bind to a socket). 38 39Also, it is (relatively) verbose when somebody actually connects to it. 40It also sets the base path, which means that all the projects which can be 41accessed using this daemon have to reside in or under that path. 42 43The option `--export-all` just means that you _don't_ have to create a 44file named `git-daemon-export-ok` in each exported repository. (Otherwise, 45git-daemon would complain loudly, and refuse to cooperate.) 46 47Last of all, the repository which should be exported is specified. It is 48a good practice to put the paths after a "--" separator. 49 50Now, test your daemon with 51 52 $ git ls-remote git://127.0.0.1/rule-the-world.git 53 54If this does not work, find out why, and submit a patch to this document.