SYNOPSIS
--------
[verse]
-'git-daemon' [--verbose] [--syslog] [--inetd | --port=n] [--export-all]
+'git-daemon' [--verbose] [--syslog] [--export-all]
[--timeout=n] [--init-timeout=n] [--strict-paths]
[--base-path=path] [--user-path | --user-path=path]
- [--reuseaddr] [--detach] [--pid-file=file] [directory...]
+ [--interpolated-path=pathtemplate]
+ [--reuseaddr] [--detach] [--pid-file=file]
+ [--enable=service] [--disable=service]
+ [--allow-override=service] [--forbid-override=service]
+ [--inetd | [--listen=host_or_ipaddr] [--port=n] [--user=user [--group=group]]
+ [directory...]
DESCRIPTION
-----------
A really simple TCP git daemon that normally listens on port "DEFAULT_GIT_PORT"
-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.
+aka 9418. It waits for a connection asking for a service, and will serve
+that service if it is enabled.
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, i.e., pulling from git repositories.
+By default, only `upload-pack` service is enabled, which serves
+`git-fetch-pack` and `git-peek-remote` clients that are invoked
+from `git-fetch`, `git-ls-remote`, 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`.
OPTIONS
-------
'git://example.com/hello.git', `git-daemon` will interpret the path
as '/srv/git/hello.git'.
+--interpolated-path=pathtemplate::
+ To support virtual hosting, an interpolated path template can be
+ used to dynamically construct alternate paths. The template
+ supports %H for the target hostname as supplied by the client but
+ converted to all lowercase, %CH for the canonical hostname,
+ %IP for the server's IP address, %P for the port number,
+ and %D for the absolute path of the named repository.
+ After interpolation, the path is validated against the directory
+ whitelist.
+
--export-all::
Allow pulling from all directories that look like GIT repositories
(have the 'objects' and 'refs' subdirectories), even if they
--inetd::
Have the server run as an inetd service. Implies --syslog.
+ Incompatible with --port, --listen, --user and --group options.
---port::
- Listen on an alternative port.
+--listen=host_or_ipaddr::
+ Listen on an 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.
+ Incompatible with '--inetd' option.
+
+--port=n::
+ Listen on an alternative port. Incompatible with '--inetd' option.
--init-timeout::
Timeout between the moment the connection is established and the
--pid-file=file::
Save the process id in 'file'.
+--user=user, --group=group::
+ Change daemon's uid and gid before entering the service loop.
+ When only `--user` is given without `--group`, the
+ primary group ID for the user is used. The values of
+ the option are given to `getpwnam(3)` and `getgrnam(3)`
+ and numeric IDs are not supported.
++
+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.
+
+--enable-service, --disable-service::
+ Enable/disable the service site-wide per default. Note
+ that a service disabled site-wide can still be enabled
+ per repository if it is marked overridable and the
+ repository enables the service with an configuration
+ item.
+
+--allow-override, --forbid-override::
+ Allow/forbid overriding the site-wide default with per
+ repository configuration. By default, all the services
+ are overridable.
+
<directory>::
A directory to add to the whitelist of allowed directories. Unless
--strict-paths is specified this will also include subdirectories
of each named directory.
+SERVICES
+--------
+
+upload-pack::
+ This serves `git-fetch-pack` and `git-peek-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`.
+
+EXAMPLES
+--------
+We assume the following in /etc/services::
++
+------------
+$ grep 9418 /etc/services
+git 9418/tcp # Git Version Control System
+------------
+
+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 stream tcp nowait nobody /usr/bin/git-daemon
+ git-daemon --inetd --verbose --export-all
+ /pub/foo /pub/bar
+------------------------------------------------
+
+
+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:
++
+------------------------------------------------
+ git stream tcp nowait nobody /usr/bin/git-daemon
+ git-daemon --inetd --verbose --export-all
+ --interpolated-path=/pub/%H%D
+ /pub/www.example.org/software
+ /pub/www.example.com/software
+ /software
+------------------------------------------------
++
+In this example, the root-level directory `/pub` will contain
+a subdirectory for each virtual host name supported.
+Further, both hosts advertise repositories simply as
+`git://www.example.com/software/repo.git`. For pre-1.4.0
+clients, a symlink from `/software` into the appropriate
+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
+ handles repositories for multiple virtual hosts based on
+ their IP addresses, start the daemon like this:
++
+------------------------------------------------
+ git-daemon --verbose --export-all
+ --interpolated-path=/pub/%IP/%D
+ /pub/192.168.1.200/software
+ /pub/10.10.220.23/software
+------------------------------------------------
++
+In this example, the root-level directory `/pub` will contain
+a subdirectory for each virtual host IP address supported.
+Repositories can still be accessed by hostname though, assuming
+they correspond to these IP addresses.
+
+
Author
------
Written by Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>, YOSHIFUJI Hideaki