Documentation/git-daemon.txt

   1 git-daemon(1)
   2 =============
   3
   4 NAME
   5 ----
   6 git-daemon - A really simple server for git repositories.
   7
   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...]
  15
  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.
  21
  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.
  24
  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.
  30
  31 This is ideally suited for read-only updates, ie pulling from git repositories.
  32
  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.
  40
  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'.
  47
  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.
  52
  53 --inetd::
  54         Have the server run as an inetd service. Implies --syslog.
  55
  56 --port::
  57         Listen on an alternative port.
  58
  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).
  63
  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.
  68
  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.
  72
  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`.
  81
  82 --verbose::
  83         Log details about the incoming connections and requested files.
  84
  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.
  89
  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>
  94
  95 Documentation
  96 --------------
  97 Documentation by Junio C Hamano and the git-list <git@vger.kernel.org>.
  98
  99 GIT
 100 ---
 101 Part of the gitlink:git[7] suite
 102