1git-daemon(1) 2============= 3 4NAME 5---- 6git-daemon - A really simple server for git repositories. 7 8SYNOPSIS 9-------- 10'git-daemon' [--verbose] [--syslog] [--inetd | --port=n] [--export-all] 11 [--timeout=n] [--init-timeout=n] [directory...] 12 13DESCRIPTION 14----------- 15A really simple TCP git daemon that normally listens on port "DEFAULT_GIT_PORT" 16aka 9418. It waits for a connection, and will just execute "git-upload-pack" 17when it gets one. 18 19It's careful in that there's a magic request-line that gives the command and 20what directory to upload, and it verifies that the directory is ok. 21 22It verifies that the directory has the magic file "git-daemon-export-ok", and 23it will refuse to export any git directory that hasn't explicitly been marked 24for export this way (unless the '--export-all' parameter is specified). If you 25pass some directory paths as 'git-daemon' arguments, you can further restrict 26the offers to a whitelist comprising of those. 27 28This is ideally suited for read-only updates, ie pulling from git repositories. 29 30OPTIONS 31------- 32--export-all:: 33 Allow pulling from all directories that look like GIT repositories 34 (have the 'objects' subdirectory and a 'HEAD' file), even if they 35 do not have the 'git-daemon-export-ok' file. 36 37--inetd:: 38 Have the server run as an inetd service. 39 40--port:: 41 Listen on an alternative port. 42 43--init-timeout:: 44 Timeout between the moment the connection is established and the 45 client request is received (typically a rather low value, since 46 that should be basically immediate). 47 48--timeout:: 49 Timeout for specific client sub-requests. This includes the time 50 it takes for the server to process the sub-request and time spent 51 waiting for next client's request. 52 53--syslog:: 54 Log to syslog instead of stderr. Note that this option does not imply 55 --verbose, thus by default only error conditions will be logged. 56 57--verbose:: 58 Log details about the incoming connections and requested files. 59 60Author 61------ 62Written by Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org> and YOSHIFUJI Hideaki <yoshfuji@linux-ipv6.org> 63 64Documentation 65-------------- 66Documentation by Junio C Hamano and the git-list <git@vger.kernel.org>. 67 68GIT 69--- 70Part of the gitlink:git[7] suite 71