6 git-daemon - A really simple server for git repositories
11 'git-daemon' [--verbose] [--syslog] [--inetd | --port=n] [--export-all]
12 [--timeout=n] [--init-timeout=n] [--strict-paths]
13 [--base-path=path] [--user-path | --user-path=path]
14 [--reuseaddr] [--detach] [--pid-file=file] [directory...]
18 A really simple TCP git daemon that normally listens on port "DEFAULT_GIT_PORT"
19 aka 9418. It waits for a connection, and will just execute "git-upload-pack"
22 It's careful in that there's a magic request-line that gives the command and
23 what directory to upload, and it verifies that the directory is OK.
25 It verifies that the directory has the magic file "git-daemon-export-ok", and
26 it will refuse to export any git directory that hasn't explicitly been marked
27 for export this way (unless the '--export-all' parameter is specified). If you
28 pass some directory paths as 'git-daemon' arguments, you can further restrict
29 the offers to a whitelist comprising of those.
31 This is ideally suited for read-only updates, i.e., pulling from git repositories.
36 Match paths exactly (i.e. don't allow "/foo/repo" when the real path is
37 "/foo/repo.git" or "/foo/repo/.git") and don't do user-relative paths.
38 git-daemon will refuse to start when this option is enabled and no
39 whitelist is specified.
42 Remap all the path requests as relative to the given path.
43 This is sort of "GIT root" - if you run git-daemon with
44 '--base-path=/srv/git' on example.com, then if you later try to pull
45 'git://example.com/hello.git', `git-daemon` will interpret the path
46 as '/srv/git/hello.git'.
49 Allow pulling from all directories that look like GIT repositories
50 (have the 'objects' and 'refs' subdirectories), even if they
51 do not have the 'git-daemon-export-ok' file.
54 Have the server run as an inetd service. Implies --syslog.
57 Listen on an alternative port.
60 Timeout between the moment the connection is established and the
61 client request is received (typically a rather low value, since
62 that should be basically immediate).
65 Timeout for specific client sub-requests. This includes the time
66 it takes for the server to process the sub-request and time spent
67 waiting for next client's request.
70 Log to syslog instead of stderr. Note that this option does not imply
71 --verbose, thus by default only error conditions will be logged.
73 --user-path, --user-path=path::
74 Allow ~user notation to be used in requests. When
75 specified with no parameter, requests to
76 git://host/~alice/foo is taken as a request to access
77 'foo' repository in the home directory of user `alice`.
78 If `--user-path=path` is specified, the same request is
79 taken as a request to access `path/foo` repository in
80 the home directory of user `alice`.
83 Log details about the incoming connections and requested files.
86 Use SO_REUSEADDR when binding the listening socket.
87 This allows the server to restart without waiting for
88 old connections to time out.
91 Detach from the shell. Implies --syslog.
94 Save the process id in 'file'.
97 A directory to add to the whitelist of allowed directories. Unless
98 --strict-paths is specified this will also include subdirectories
99 of each named directory.
103 Written by Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>, YOSHIFUJI Hideaki
104 <yoshfuji@linux-ipv6.org> and the git-list <git@vger.kernel.org>
108 Documentation by Junio C Hamano and the git-list <git@vger.kernel.org>.
112 Part of the gitlink:git[7] suite