NAME
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-git-daemon - A really simple server for git repositories.
+git-daemon - A really simple server for git repositories
SYNOPSIS
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[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]
+ [--reuseaddr] [--detach] [--pid-file=file] [directory...]
DESCRIPTION
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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
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
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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
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'.
+
<directory>::
A directory to add to the whitelist of allowed directories. Unless
--strict-paths is specified this will also include subdirectories