Merge branch 'js/cvs'

[git.git] / Documentation / git-daemon.txt

diff --git a/Documentation/git-daemon.txt b/Documentation/git-daemon.txt
index 2a8f371ec95b619bcfb3fc289770ab7ef929214d..0f7d274eaba3722dabfdbf7ab14592a938933a56 100644 (file)
--- a/Documentation/git-daemon.txt
+++ b/Documentation/git-daemon.txt
@@ -3,12 +3,15 @@ git-daemon(1)
 
 NAME
 ----
-git-daemon - A really simple server for git repositories.
+git-daemon - A really simple server for git repositories
 
 SYNOPSIS
 --------
+[verse]
 'git-daemon' [--verbose] [--syslog] [--inetd | --port=n] [--export-all]
-             [--timeout=n] [--init-timeout=n] [--strict-paths] [directory...]
+             [--timeout=n] [--init-timeout=n] [--strict-paths]
+             [--base-path=path] [--user-path | --user-path=path]
+            [--reuseaddr] [--detach] [--pid-file=file] [directory...]
 
 DESCRIPTION
 -----------
@@ -17,7 +20,7 @@ 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.
+what directory to upload, and it verifies that the directory is OK.
 
 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
@@ -25,7 +28,7 @@ for export this way (unless the '--export-all' parameter is specified). If you
 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, ie pulling from git repositories.
+This is ideally suited for read-only updates, i.e., pulling from git repositories.
 
 OPTIONS
 -------
@@ -35,6 +38,13 @@ OPTIONS
        git-daemon will refuse to start when this option is enabled and no
        whitelist is specified.
 
+--base-path::
+       Remap all the path requests as relative to the given path.
+       This is sort of "GIT root" - if you run git-daemon with
+       '--base-path=/srv/git' on example.com, then if you later try to pull
+       'git://example.com/hello.git', `git-daemon` will interpret the path
+       as '/srv/git/hello.git'.
+
 --export-all::
        Allow pulling from all directories that look like GIT repositories
        (have the 'objects' and 'refs' subdirectories), even if they
@@ -60,9 +70,29 @@ OPTIONS
        Log to syslog instead of stderr. Note that this option does not imply
        --verbose, thus by default only error conditions will be logged.
 
+--user-path, --user-path=path::
+       Allow ~user notation to be used in requests.  When
+       specified with no parameter, requests to
+       git://host/~alice/foo is taken as a request to access
+       'foo' repository in the home directory of user `alice`.
+       If `--user-path=path` is specified, the same request is
+       taken as a request to access `path/foo` repository in
+       the home directory of user `alice`.
+
 --verbose::
        Log details about the incoming connections and requested files.
 
+--reuseaddr::
+       Use SO_REUSEADDR when binding the listening socket.
+       This allows the server to restart without waiting for
+       old connections to time out.
+
+--detach::
+       Detach from the shell. Implies --syslog.
+
+--pid-file=file::
+       Save the process id in 'file'.
+
 <directory>::
        A directory to add to the whitelist of allowed directories. Unless
        --strict-paths is specified this will also include subdirectories