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 69a1e4af9ec007a6cc59cce07298a6a825369ef1..31b28fc29fc6e01e8505f2179b08082cf734377c 100644 (file)
--- a/Documentation/git-daemon.txt
+++ b/Documentation/git-daemon.txt
@@ -161,6 +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