Merge branch 'jn/web' into next

diff --git a/Documentation/git-daemon.txt b/Documentation/git-daemon.txt
index a20e0533fcfc1ed2c9940021ab65ef2967f16856..4c357daf6ab23e3b3359388b101be8d363ae3be7 100644 (file)
--- a/Documentation/git-daemon.txt
+++ b/Documentation/git-daemon.txt
@@ -3,14 +3,15 @@ git-daemon(1)
 
 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] [--strict-paths]
-             [--base-path=path] [directory...]
+             [--base-path=path] [--user-path | --user-path=path]
+            [directory...]
 
 DESCRIPTION
 -----------
@@ -19,7 +20,7 @@ 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.
+what directory to upload, and it verifies that the directory is OK.
 
 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
@@ -27,7 +28,7 @@ for export this way (unless the '--export-all' parameter is specified). If you
 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.
+This is ideally suited for read-only updates, i.e., pulling from git repositories.
 
 OPTIONS
 -------
@@ -42,8 +43,7 @@ OPTIONS
        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'. Home directories (the '~login' notation)
-       access is disabled.
+       as '/srv/git/hello.git'.
 
 --export-all::
        Allow pulling from all directories that look like GIT repositories
@@ -70,6 +70,15 @@ OPTIONS
        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.