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] [--strict-paths] [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--strict-paths:: 33 Match paths exactly (i.e. don't allow "/foo/repo" when the real path is 34 "/foo/repo.git" or "/foo/repo/.git") and don't do user-relative paths. 35 git-daemon will refuse to start when this option is enabled and no 36 whitelist is specified. 37 38--export-all:: 39 Allow pulling from all directories that look like GIT repositories 40 (have the 'objects' and 'refs' subdirectories), even if they 41 do not have the 'git-daemon-export-ok' file. 42 43--inetd:: 44 Have the server run as an inetd service. Implies --syslog. 45 46--port:: 47 Listen on an alternative port. 48 49--init-timeout:: 50 Timeout between the moment the connection is established and the 51 client request is received (typically a rather low value, since 52 that should be basically immediate). 53 54--timeout:: 55 Timeout for specific client sub-requests. This includes the time 56 it takes for the server to process the sub-request and time spent 57 waiting for next client's request. 58 59--syslog:: 60 Log to syslog instead of stderr. Note that this option does not imply 61 --verbose, thus by default only error conditions will be logged. 62 63--verbose:: 64 Log details about the incoming connections and requested files. 65 66<directory>:: 67 A directory to add to the whitelist of allowed directories. Unless 68 --strict-paths is specified this will also include subdirectories 69 of each named directory. 70 71Author 72------ 73Written by Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>, YOSHIFUJI Hideaki 74<yoshfuji@linux-ipv6.org> and the git-list <git@vger.kernel.org> 75 76Documentation 77-------------- 78Documentation by Junio C Hamano and the git-list <git@vger.kernel.org>. 79 80GIT 81--- 82Part of the gitlink:git[7] suite 83