NAME
----
-git-daemon - A really simple server for git repositories.
+git-daemon - A really simple server for git repositories
SYNOPSIS
--------
+[verse]
'git-daemon' [--verbose] [--syslog] [--inetd | --port=n] [--export-all]
- [--timeout=n] [--init-timeout=n] [directory...]
+ [--timeout=n] [--init-timeout=n] [--strict-paths]
+ [--base-path=path] [--user-path | --user-path=path]
+ [--enable=service] [--disable=service]
+ [--allow-override=service] [--forbid-override=service]
+ [--reuseaddr] [--detach] [--pid-file=file]
+ [--user=user [--group=group]] [directory...]
DESCRIPTION
-----------
A really simple TCP git daemon that normally listens on port "DEFAULT_GIT_PORT"
-aka 9418. It waits for a connection, and will just execute "git-upload-pack"
-when it gets one.
-
-It's careful in that there's a magic request-line that gives the command and
-what directory to upload, and it verifies that the directory is ok.
+aka 9418. It waits for a connection asking for a service, and will serve
+that service if it is enabled.
It verifies that the directory has the magic file "git-daemon-export-ok", and
it will refuse to export any git directory that hasn't explicitly been marked
pass some directory paths as 'git-daemon' arguments, you can further restrict
the offers to a whitelist comprising of those.
-This is ideally suited for read-only updates, ie pulling from git repositories.
+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`.
+
+This is ideally suited for read-only updates, i.e., pulling from
+git repositories.
OPTIONS
-------
-+--strict-paths::
+--strict-paths::
Match paths exactly (i.e. don't allow "/foo/repo" when the real path is
"/foo/repo.git" or "/foo/repo/.git") and don't do user-relative paths.
git-daemon will refuse to start when this option is enabled and no
whitelist is specified.
+--base-path::
+ Remap all the path requests as relative to the given path.
+ This is sort of "GIT root" - if you run git-daemon with
+ '--base-path=/srv/git' on example.com, then if you later try to pull
+ 'git://example.com/hello.git', `git-daemon` will interpret the path
+ as '/srv/git/hello.git'.
+
--export-all::
Allow pulling from all directories that look like GIT repositories
(have the 'objects' and 'refs' subdirectories), even if they
Log to syslog instead of stderr. Note that this option does not imply
--verbose, thus by default only error conditions will be logged.
+--user-path, --user-path=path::
+ Allow ~user notation to be used in requests. When
+ specified with no parameter, requests to
+ git://host/~alice/foo is taken as a request to access
+ 'foo' repository in the home directory of user `alice`.
+ If `--user-path=path` is specified, the same request is
+ taken as a request to access `path/foo` repository in
+ the home directory of user `alice`.
+
--verbose::
Log details about the incoming connections and requested files.
+--reuseaddr::
+ Use SO_REUSEADDR when binding the listening socket.
+ This allows the server to restart without waiting for
+ old connections to time out.
+
+--detach::
+ Detach from the shell. Implies --syslog.
+
+--pid-file=file::
+ Save the process id in 'file'.
+
+--user=user, --group=group::
+ Change daemon's uid and gid before entering the service loop.
+ When only `--user` is given without `--group`, the
+ primary group ID for the user is used. The values of
+ the option are given to `getpwnam(3)` and `getgrnam(3)`
+ and numeric IDs are not supported.
++
+Giving these options is an error when used with `--inetd`; use
+the facility of inet daemon to achieve the same before spawning
+`git-daemon` if needed.
+
+--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/forbid overriding the site-wide default with per
+ repository configuration. By default, all the services
+ are overridable.
+
<directory>::
A directory to add to the whitelist of allowed directories. Unless
--strict-paths is specified this will also include subdirectories
of each named directory.
+SERVICES
+--------
+
+upload-pack::
+ This serves `git-fetch-pack` and `git-peek-remote`
+ clients. It is enabled by default, but a repository can
+ disable it by setting `daemon.uploadpack` configuration
+ item to `false`.
+
Author
------
Written by Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>, YOSHIFUJI Hideaki