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 ebd13be72e58cf0d0a66ddd0105117747ac900be..31b28fc29fc6e01e8505f2179b08082cf734377c 100644 (file)
--- a/Documentation/git-daemon.txt
+++ b/Documentation/git-daemon.txt
@@ -93,14 +93,14 @@ OPTIONS
        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
@@ -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