--inetd::
Have the server run as an inetd service. Implies --syslog.
- Incompatible with --port, --listen, --user and --group options.
+ Incompatible with --detach, --port, --listen, --user and --group
+ options.
--listen=<host_or_ipaddr>::
Listen on a specific IP address or hostname. IP addresses can
be either an IPv4 address or an IPv6 address if supported. If IPv6
is not supported, then --listen=hostname is also not supported and
--listen must be given an IPv4 address.
+ Can be given more than once.
Incompatible with '--inetd' option.
--port=<n>::
Listen on an alternative port. Incompatible with '--inetd' option.
--init-timeout=<n>::
- Timeout between the moment the connection is established and the
- client request is received (typically a rather low value, since
+ Timeout (in seconds) between the moment the connection is established
+ and the client request is received (typically a rather low value, since
that should be basically immediate).
--timeout=<n>::
- Timeout for specific client sub-requests. This includes the time
- it takes for the server to process the sub-request and the time spent
- waiting for the next client's request.
+ Timeout (in seconds) for specific client sub-requests. This includes
+ the time 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
repository configuration. By default, all the services
are overridable.
+--informative-errors::
+--no-informative-errors::
+ When informative errors are turned on, git-daemon will report
+ more verbose errors to the client, differentiating conditions
+ like "no such repository" from "repository not exported". This
+ is more convenient for clients, but may leak information about
+ the existence of unexported repositories. When informative
+ errors are not enabled, all errors report "access denied" to the
+ client. The default is --no-informative-errors.
+
<directory>::
A directory to add to the whitelist of allowed directories. Unless
--strict-paths is specified this will also include subdirectories
be available in the environment of hooks called when
services are performed.
-
-
-Author
-------
-Written by Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>, YOSHIFUJI Hideaki
-<yoshfuji@linux-ipv6.org> and the git-list <git@vger.kernel.org>
-
-Documentation
---------------
-Documentation by Junio C Hamano and the git-list <git@vger.kernel.org>.
-
GIT
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Part of the linkgit:git[1] suite