--------
[verse]
'git daemon' [--verbose] [--syslog] [--export-all]
- [--timeout=n] [--init-timeout=n] [--strict-paths]
- [--base-path=path] [--user-path | --user-path=path]
+ [--timeout=n] [--init-timeout=n] [--max-connections=n]
+ [--strict-paths] [--base-path=path] [--base-path-relaxed]
+ [--user-path | --user-path=path]
[--interpolated-path=pathtemplate]
[--reuseaddr] [--detach] [--pid-file=file]
[--enable=service] [--disable=service]
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
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
+pass some directory paths as 'git daemon' arguments, you can further restrict
the offers to a whitelist comprising of those.
By default, only `upload-pack` service is enabled, which serves
-'git-fetch-pack' and 'git-ls-remote' clients, which are invoked
-from 'git-fetch', 'git-pull', 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'.
+An `upload-archive` also exists to serve 'git archive'.
OPTIONS
-------
--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
+ 'git daemon' will refuse to start when this option is enabled and no
whitelist is specified.
--base-path=path::
Remap all the path requests as relative to the given path.
- This is sort of "GIT root" - if you run 'git-daemon' with
+ 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
+ '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.
+ '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.
it takes for the server to process the sub-request and the time spent
waiting for the next client's request.
+--max-connections=n::
+ Maximum number of concurrent clients, defaults to 32. Set it to
+ zero for no limit.
+
--syslog::
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
+ Allow {tilde}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
+ git://host/{tilde}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
+
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.
+'git daemon' if needed.
--enable=service::
--disable=service::
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
+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-ls-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
+ 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
+ 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
git 9418/tcp # Git Version Control System
------------
-'git-daemon' as inetd server::
- To set up 'git-daemon' as an inetd service that handles any
+'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
and /pub/bar, place an entry like the following into
/etc/inetd all on one line:
------------------------------------------------
-'git-daemon' as inetd server for virtual hosts::
- To set up 'git-daemon' as an inetd service that handles
+'git daemon' as inetd server for virtual hosts::
+ To set up 'git daemon' as an inetd service that handles
repositories for different virtual hosts, `www.example.com`
and `www.example.org`, place an entry like the following into
`/etc/inetd` all on one line:
default repository could be made as well.
-'git-daemon' as regular daemon for virtual hosts::
- To set up 'git-daemon' as a regular, non-inetd service that
+'git daemon' as regular daemon for virtual hosts::
+ To set up 'git daemon' as a regular, non-inetd service that
handles repositories for multiple virtual hosts based on
their IP addresses, start the daemon like this:
+
they correspond to these IP addresses.
selectively enable/disable services per repository::
- To enable 'git-archive --remote' and disable 'git-fetch' against
+ 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').
----------------------------------------------------------------
+ENVIRONMENT
+-----------
+'git daemon' will set REMOTE_ADDR to the IP address of the client
+that connected to it, if the IP address is available. REMOTE_ADDR will
+be available in the environment of hooks called when
+services are performed.
+
+
+
Author
------
Written by Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>, YOSHIFUJI Hideaki