6 git-daemon - A really simple server for git repositories
11 'git-daemon' [--verbose] [--syslog] [--export-all]
12 [--timeout=n] [--init-timeout=n] [--strict-paths]
13 [--base-path=path] [--user-path | --user-path=path]
14 [--interpolated-path=pathtemplate]
15 [--reuseaddr] [--detach] [--pid-file=file]
16 [--enable=service] [--disable=service]
17 [--allow-override=service] [--forbid-override=service]
18 [--inetd | [--listen=host_or_ipaddr] [--port=n] [--user=user [--group=group]]
23 A really simple TCP git daemon that normally listens on port "DEFAULT_GIT_PORT"
24 aka 9418. It waits for a connection asking for a service, and will serve
25 that service if it is enabled.
27 It verifies that the directory has the magic file "git-daemon-export-ok", and
28 it will refuse to export any git directory that hasn't explicitly been marked
29 for export this way (unless the '--export-all' parameter is specified). If you
30 pass some directory paths as 'git-daemon' arguments, you can further restrict
31 the offers to a whitelist comprising of those.
33 By default, only `upload-pack` service is enabled, which serves
34 `git-fetch-pack` and `git-peek-remote` clients that are invoked
35 from `git-fetch`, `git-ls-remote`, and `git-clone`.
37 This is ideally suited for read-only updates, i.e., pulling from
40 An `upload-archive` also exists to serve `git-archive`.
45 Match paths exactly (i.e. don't allow "/foo/repo" when the real path is
46 "/foo/repo.git" or "/foo/repo/.git") and don't do user-relative paths.
47 git-daemon will refuse to start when this option is enabled and no
48 whitelist is specified.
51 Remap all the path requests as relative to the given path.
52 This is sort of "GIT root" - if you run git-daemon with
53 '--base-path=/srv/git' on example.com, then if you later try to pull
54 'git://example.com/hello.git', `git-daemon` will interpret the path
55 as '/srv/git/hello.git'.
58 If --base-path is enabled and repo lookup fails, with this option
59 `git-daemon` will attempt to lookup without prefixing the base path.
60 This is useful for switching to --base-path usage, while still
61 allowing the old paths.
63 --interpolated-path=pathtemplate::
64 To support virtual hosting, an interpolated path template can be
65 used to dynamically construct alternate paths. The template
66 supports %H for the target hostname as supplied by the client but
67 converted to all lowercase, %CH for the canonical hostname,
68 %IP for the server's IP address, %P for the port number,
69 and %D for the absolute path of the named repository.
70 After interpolation, the path is validated against the directory
74 Allow pulling from all directories that look like GIT repositories
75 (have the 'objects' and 'refs' subdirectories), even if they
76 do not have the 'git-daemon-export-ok' file.
79 Have the server run as an inetd service. Implies --syslog.
80 Incompatible with --port, --listen, --user and --group options.
82 --listen=host_or_ipaddr::
83 Listen on an a specific IP address or hostname. IP addresses can
84 be either an IPv4 address or an IPV6 address if supported. If IPv6
85 is not supported, then --listen=hostname is also not supported and
86 --listen must be given an IPv4 address.
87 Incompatible with '--inetd' option.
90 Listen on an alternative port. Incompatible with '--inetd' option.
93 Timeout between the moment the connection is established and the
94 client request is received (typically a rather low value, since
95 that should be basically immediate).
98 Timeout for specific client sub-requests. This includes the time
99 it takes for the server to process the sub-request and time spent
100 waiting for next client's request.
103 Log to syslog instead of stderr. Note that this option does not imply
104 --verbose, thus by default only error conditions will be logged.
106 --user-path, --user-path=path::
107 Allow ~user notation to be used in requests. When
108 specified with no parameter, requests to
109 git://host/~alice/foo is taken as a request to access
110 'foo' repository in the home directory of user `alice`.
111 If `--user-path=path` is specified, the same request is
112 taken as a request to access `path/foo` repository in
113 the home directory of user `alice`.
116 Log details about the incoming connections and requested files.
119 Use SO_REUSEADDR when binding the listening socket.
120 This allows the server to restart without waiting for
121 old connections to time out.
124 Detach from the shell. Implies --syslog.
127 Save the process id in 'file'.
129 --user=user, --group=group::
130 Change daemon's uid and gid before entering the service loop.
131 When only `--user` is given without `--group`, the
132 primary group ID for the user is used. The values of
133 the option are given to `getpwnam(3)` and `getgrnam(3)`
134 and numeric IDs are not supported.
136 Giving these options is an error when used with `--inetd`; use
137 the facility of inet daemon to achieve the same before spawning
138 `git-daemon` if needed.
140 --enable=service, --disable=service::
141 Enable/disable the service site-wide per default. Note
142 that a service disabled site-wide can still be enabled
143 per repository if it is marked overridable and the
144 repository enables the service with an configuration
147 --allow-override=service, --forbid-override=service::
148 Allow/forbid overriding the site-wide default with per
149 repository configuration. By default, all the services
153 A directory to add to the whitelist of allowed directories. Unless
154 --strict-paths is specified this will also include subdirectories
155 of each named directory.
161 This serves `git-fetch-pack` and `git-peek-remote`
162 clients. It is enabled by default, but a repository can
163 disable it by setting `daemon.uploadpack` configuration
167 This serves `git-archive --remote`.
171 We assume the following in /etc/services::
174 $ grep 9418 /etc/services
175 git 9418/tcp # Git Version Control System
178 git-daemon as inetd server::
179 To set up `git-daemon` as an inetd service that handles any
180 repository under the whitelisted set of directories, /pub/foo
181 and /pub/bar, place an entry like the following into
182 /etc/inetd all on one line:
184 ------------------------------------------------
185 git stream tcp nowait nobody /usr/bin/git-daemon
186 git-daemon --inetd --verbose --export-all
188 ------------------------------------------------
191 git-daemon as inetd server for virtual hosts::
192 To set up `git-daemon` as an inetd service that handles
193 repositories for different virtual hosts, `www.example.com`
194 and `www.example.org`, place an entry like the following into
195 `/etc/inetd` all on one line:
197 ------------------------------------------------
198 git stream tcp nowait nobody /usr/bin/git-daemon
199 git-daemon --inetd --verbose --export-all
200 --interpolated-path=/pub/%H%D
201 /pub/www.example.org/software
202 /pub/www.example.com/software
204 ------------------------------------------------
206 In this example, the root-level directory `/pub` will contain
207 a subdirectory for each virtual host name supported.
208 Further, both hosts advertise repositories simply as
209 `git://www.example.com/software/repo.git`. For pre-1.4.0
210 clients, a symlink from `/software` into the appropriate
211 default repository could be made as well.
214 git-daemon as regular daemon for virtual hosts::
215 To set up `git-daemon` as a regular, non-inetd service that
216 handles repositories for multiple virtual hosts based on
217 their IP addresses, start the daemon like this:
219 ------------------------------------------------
220 git-daemon --verbose --export-all
221 --interpolated-path=/pub/%IP/%D
222 /pub/192.168.1.200/software
223 /pub/10.10.220.23/software
224 ------------------------------------------------
226 In this example, the root-level directory `/pub` will contain
227 a subdirectory for each virtual host IP address supported.
228 Repositories can still be accessed by hostname though, assuming
229 they correspond to these IP addresses.
234 Written by Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>, YOSHIFUJI Hideaki
235 <yoshfuji@linux-ipv6.org> and the git-list <git@vger.kernel.org>
239 Documentation by Junio C Hamano and the git-list <git@vger.kernel.org>.
243 Part of the gitlink:git[7] suite