say >&3 "Starting git daemon ..."
        mkfifo git_daemon_output
-       git daemon --listen=127.0.0.1 --port="$LIB_GIT_DAEMON_PORT" \
+       ${LIB_GIT_DAEMON_COMMAND:-git daemon} \
+               --listen=127.0.0.1 --port="$LIB_GIT_DAEMON_PORT" \
                --reuseaddr --verbose \
                --base-path="$GIT_DAEMON_DOCUMENT_ROOT_PATH" \
                "$@" "$GIT_DAEMON_DOCUMENT_ROOT_PATH" \