the offers to a whitelist comprising of those.
By default, only `upload-pack` service is enabled, which serves
-`git-fetch-pack` and `git-peek-remote` clients that are invoked
-from `git-fetch`, `git-ls-remote`, and `git-clone`.
+`git-fetch-pack` and `git-ls-remote` clients, which are invoked
+from `git-fetch`, `git-pull`, and `git-clone`.
This is ideally suited for read-only updates, i.e., pulling from
git repositories.
+An `upload-archive` also exists to serve `git-archive`.
+
OPTIONS
-------
--strict-paths::
'git://example.com/hello.git', `git-daemon` will interpret the path
as '/srv/git/hello.git'.
+--base-path-relaxed::
+ If --base-path is enabled and repo lookup fails, with this option
+ `git-daemon` will attempt to lookup without prefixing the base path.
+ This is useful for switching to --base-path usage, while still
+ allowing the old paths.
+
--interpolated-path=pathtemplate::
To support virtual hosting, an interpolated path template can be
used to dynamically construct alternate paths. The template
Detach from the shell. Implies --syslog.
--pid-file=file::
- Save the process id in 'file'.
+ Save the process id in 'file'. Ignored when the daemon
+ is run under `--inetd`.
--user=user, --group=group::
Change daemon's uid and gid before entering the service loop.
the facility of inet daemon to achieve the same before spawning
`git-daemon` if needed.
---enable-service, --disable-service::
+--enable=service, --disable=service::
Enable/disable the service site-wide per default. Note
that a service disabled site-wide can still be enabled
per repository if it is marked overridable and the
repository enables the service with an configuration
item.
---allow-override, --forbid-override::
+--allow-override=service, --forbid-override=service::
Allow/forbid overriding the site-wide default with per
repository configuration. By default, all the services
are overridable.
SERVICES
--------
+These services can be globally enabled/disabled using the
+command line options of this command. If a finer-grained
+control is desired (e.g. to allow `git-archive` to be run
+against only in a few selected repositories the daemon serves),
+the per-repository configuration file can be used to enable or
+disable them.
+
upload-pack::
- This serves `git-fetch-pack` and `git-peek-remote`
+ This serves `git-fetch-pack` and `git-ls-remote`
clients. It is enabled by default, but a repository can
disable it by setting `daemon.uploadpack` configuration
item to `false`.
+upload-archive::
+ This serves `git-archive --remote`. It is disabled by
+ default, but a repository can enable it by setting
+ `daemon.uploadarch` configuration item to `true`.
+
+receive-pack::
+ This serves `git-send-pack` clients, allowing anonymous
+ push. It is disabled by default, as there is _no_
+ authentication in the protocol (in other words, anybody
+ can push anything into the repository, including removal
+ of refs). This is solely meant for a closed LAN setting
+ where everybody is friendly. This service can be
+ enabled by `daemon.receivepack` configuration item to
+ `true`.
+
EXAMPLES
--------
+We assume the following in /etc/services::
++
+------------
+$ grep 9418 /etc/services
+git 9418/tcp # Git Version Control System
+------------
+
git-daemon as inetd server::
To set up `git-daemon` as an inetd service that handles any
repository under the whitelisted set of directories, /pub/foo
+
------------------------------------------------
git stream tcp nowait nobody /usr/bin/git-daemon
- git-daemon --inetd --verbose
- --syslog --export-all
+ git-daemon --inetd --verbose --export-all
/pub/foo /pub/bar
------------------------------------------------
+
------------------------------------------------
git stream tcp nowait nobody /usr/bin/git-daemon
- git-daemon --inetd --verbose
- --syslog --export-all
+ git-daemon --inetd --verbose --export-all
--interpolated-path=/pub/%H%D
/pub/www.example.org/software
/pub/www.example.com/software
Repositories can still be accessed by hostname though, assuming
they correspond to these IP addresses.
+selectively enable/disable services per repository::
+ To enable `git-archive --remote` and disable `git-fetch` against
+ a repository, have the following in the configuration file in the
+ repository (that is the file 'config' next to 'HEAD', 'refs' and
+ 'objects').
++
+----------------------------------------------------------------
+ [daemon]
+ uploadpack = false
+ uploadarch = true
+----------------------------------------------------------------
+
Author
------
GIT
---
-Part of the gitlink:git[7] suite
-
+Part of the linkgit:git[7] suite