1git-shell(1) 2============ 3 4NAME 5---- 6git-shell - Restricted login shell for Git-only SSH access 7 8 9SYNOPSIS 10-------- 11[verse] 12'git shell' [-c <command> <argument>] 13 14DESCRIPTION 15----------- 16 17A login shell for SSH accounts to provide restricted Git access. When 18'-c' is given, the program executes <command> non-interactively; 19<command> can be one of 'git receive-pack', 'git upload-pack', 'git 20upload-archive', 'cvs server', or a command in COMMAND_DIR. The shell 21is started in interactive mode when no arguments are given; in this 22case, COMMAND_DIR must exist, and any of the executables in it can be 23invoked. 24 25'cvs server' is a special command which executes git-cvsserver. 26 27COMMAND_DIR is the path "$HOME/git-shell-commands". The user must have 28read and execute permissions to the directory in order to execute the 29programs in it. The programs are executed with a cwd of $HOME, and 30<argument> is parsed as a command-line string. 31 32GIT 33--- 34Part of the linkgit:git[1] suite