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1 git-daemon(1)
2 =============
4 NAME
5 ----
6 git-daemon - A really simple server for git repositories
8 SYNOPSIS
9 --------
10 [verse]
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 [directory...]
16 DESCRIPTION
17 -----------
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"
20 when it gets one.
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, ie pulling from git repositories.
33 OPTIONS
34 -------
35 --strict-paths::
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.
41 --base-path::
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'.
48 --export-all::
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.
53 --inetd::
54 Have the server run as an inetd service. Implies --syslog.
56 --port::
57 Listen on an alternative port.
59 --init-timeout::
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).
64 --timeout::
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.
69 --syslog::
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`.
82 --verbose::
83 Log details about the incoming connections and requested files.
85 <directory>::
86 A directory to add to the whitelist of allowed directories. Unless
87 --strict-paths is specified this will also include subdirectories
88 of each named directory.
90 Author
91 ------
92 Written by Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>, YOSHIFUJI Hideaki
93 <yoshfuji@linux-ipv6.org> and the git-list <git@vger.kernel.org>
95 Documentation
96 --------------
97 Documentation by Junio C Hamano and the git-list <git@vger.kernel.org>.
99 GIT
100 ---
101 Part of the gitlink:git[7] suite