Merge branch 'jn/gitweb-unspecified-action' into maint-1.7.8

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

diff --git a/Documentation/git-daemon.txt b/Documentation/git-daemon.txt
index 2f0ddf6fe817ab7b59fb5f5276ba688447661ee3..31b28fc29fc6e01e8505f2179b08082cf734377c 100644 (file)
--- a/Documentation/git-daemon.txt
+++ b/Documentation/git-daemon.txt
@@ -78,27 +78,29 @@ OPTIONS
 
 --inetd::
        Have the server run as an inetd service. Implies --syslog.
-       Incompatible with --port, --listen, --user and --group options.
+       Incompatible with --detach, --port, --listen, --user and --group
+       options.
 
 --listen=<host_or_ipaddr>::
        Listen on 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.
+       Can be given more than once.
        Incompatible with '--inetd' option.
 
 --port=<n>::
        Listen on an alternative port.  Incompatible with '--inetd' option.
 
 --init-timeout=<n>::
-       Timeout between the moment the connection is established and the
-       client request is received (typically a rather low value, since
+       Timeout (in seconds) between the moment the connection is established
+       and the client request is received (typically a rather low value, since
        that should be basically immediate).
 
 --timeout=<n>::
-       Timeout for specific client sub-requests. This includes the time
-       it takes for the server to process the sub-request and the time spent
-       waiting for the next client's request.
+       Timeout (in seconds) for specific client sub-requests. This includes
+       the time it takes for the server to process the sub-request and the
+       time spent waiting for the next client's request.
 
 --max-connections=<n>::
        Maximum number of concurrent clients, defaults to 32.  Set it to
@@ -159,6 +161,16 @@ the facility of inet daemon to achieve the same before spawning
        repository configuration.  By default, all the services
        are overridable.
 
+--informative-errors::
+--no-informative-errors::
+       When informative errors are turned on, git-daemon will report
+       more verbose errors to the client, differentiating conditions
+       like "no such repository" from "repository not exported". This
+       is more convenient for clients, but may leak information about
+       the existence of unexported repositories.  When informative
+       errors are not enabled, all errors report "access denied" to the
+       client. The default is --no-informative-errors.
+
 <directory>::
        A directory to add to the whitelist of allowed directories. Unless
        --strict-paths is specified this will also include subdirectories
@@ -277,17 +289,6 @@ that connected to it, if the IP address is available. REMOTE_ADDR will
 be available in the environment of hooks called when
 services are performed.
 
-
-
-Author
-------
-Written by Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>, YOSHIFUJI Hideaki
-<yoshfuji@linux-ipv6.org> and the git-list <git@vger.kernel.org>
-
-Documentation
---------------
-Documentation by Junio C Hamano and the git-list <git@vger.kernel.org>.
-
 GIT
 ---
 Part of the linkgit:git[1] suite