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              [--interpolated-path=pathtemplate]
  15              [--enable=service] [--disable=service]
  16              [--allow-override=service] [--forbid-override=service]
  17              [--reuseaddr] [--detach] [--pid-file=file]
  18              [--user=user [--group=group]] [directory...]
  19
  20 DESCRIPTION
  21 -----------
  22 A really simple TCP git daemon that normally listens on port "DEFAULT_GIT_PORT"
  23 aka 9418.  It waits for a connection asking for a service, and will serve
  24 that service if it is enabled.
  25
  26 It verifies that the directory has the magic file "git-daemon-export-ok", and
  27 it will refuse to export any git directory that hasn't explicitly been marked
  28 for export this way (unless the '--export-all' parameter is specified). If you
  29 pass some directory paths as 'git-daemon' arguments, you can further restrict
  30 the offers to a whitelist comprising of those.
  31
  32 By default, only `upload-pack` service is enabled, which serves
  33 `git-fetch-pack` and `git-peek-remote` clients that are invoked
  34 from `git-fetch`, `git-ls-remote`, and `git-clone`.
  35
  36 This is ideally suited for read-only updates, i.e., pulling from
  37 git repositories.
  38
  39 OPTIONS
  40 -------
  41 --strict-paths::
  42         Match paths exactly (i.e. don't allow "/foo/repo" when the real path is
  43         "/foo/repo.git" or "/foo/repo/.git") and don't do user-relative paths.
  44         git-daemon will refuse to start when this option is enabled and no
  45         whitelist is specified.
  46
  47 --base-path::
  48         Remap all the path requests as relative to the given path.
  49         This is sort of "GIT root" - if you run git-daemon with
  50         '--base-path=/srv/git' on example.com, then if you later try to pull
  51         'git://example.com/hello.git', `git-daemon` will interpret the path
  52         as '/srv/git/hello.git'.
  53
  54 --interpolated-path=pathtemplate::
  55         To support virtual hosting, an interpolated path template can be
  56         used to dynamically construct alternate paths.  The template
  57         supports %H for the target hostname as supplied by the client,
  58         and %D for the absolute path of the named repository.
  59
  60 --export-all::
  61         Allow pulling from all directories that look like GIT repositories
  62         (have the 'objects' and 'refs' subdirectories), even if they
  63         do not have the 'git-daemon-export-ok' file.
  64
  65 --inetd::
  66         Have the server run as an inetd service. Implies --syslog.
  67
  68 --port::
  69         Listen on an alternative port.
  70
  71 --init-timeout::
  72         Timeout between the moment the connection is established and the
  73         client request is received (typically a rather low value, since
  74         that should be basically immediate).
  75
  76 --timeout::
  77         Timeout for specific client sub-requests. This includes the time
  78         it takes for the server to process the sub-request and time spent
  79         waiting for next client's request.
  80
  81 --syslog::
  82         Log to syslog instead of stderr. Note that this option does not imply
  83         --verbose, thus by default only error conditions will be logged.
  84
  85 --user-path, --user-path=path::
  86         Allow ~user notation to be used in requests.  When
  87         specified with no parameter, requests to
  88         git://host/~alice/foo is taken as a request to access
  89         'foo' repository in the home directory of user `alice`.
  90         If `--user-path=path` is specified, the same request is
  91         taken as a request to access `path/foo` repository in
  92         the home directory of user `alice`.
  93
  94 --verbose::
  95         Log details about the incoming connections and requested files.
  96
  97 --reuseaddr::
  98         Use SO_REUSEADDR when binding the listening socket.
  99         This allows the server to restart without waiting for
 100         old connections to time out.
 101
 102 --detach::
 103         Detach from the shell. Implies --syslog.
 104
 105 --pid-file=file::
 106         Save the process id in 'file'.
 107
 108 --user=user, --group=group::
 109         Change daemon's uid and gid before entering the service loop.
 110         When only `--user` is given without `--group`, the
 111         primary group ID for the user is used.  The values of
 112         the option are given to `getpwnam(3)` and `getgrnam(3)`
 113         and numeric IDs are not supported.
 114 +
 115 Giving these options is an error when used with `--inetd`; use
 116 the facility of inet daemon to achieve the same before spawning
 117 `git-daemon` if needed.
 118
 119 --enable-service, --disable-service::
 120         Enable/disable the service site-wide per default.  Note
 121         that a service disabled site-wide can still be enabled
 122         per repository if it is marked overridable and the
 123         repository enables the service with an configuration
 124         item.
 125
 126 --allow-override, --forbid-override::
 127         Allow/forbid overriding the site-wide default with per
 128         repository configuration.  By default, all the services
 129         are overridable.
 130
 131 <directory>::
 132         A directory to add to the whitelist of allowed directories. Unless
 133         --strict-paths is specified this will also include subdirectories
 134         of each named directory.
 135
 136 SERVICES
 137 --------
 138
 139 upload-pack::
 140         This serves `git-fetch-pack` and `git-peek-remote`
 141         clients.  It is enabled by default, but a repository can
 142         disable it by setting `daemon.uploadpack` configuration
 143         item to `false`.
 144
 145 EXAMPLES
 146 --------
 147 git-daemon as inetd server::
 148         To set up `git-daemon` as an inetd service that handles any
 149         repository under the whitelisted set of directories, /pub/foo
 150         and /pub/bar, place an entry like the following into
 151         /etc/inetd all on one line:
 152 +
 153 ------------------------------------------------
 154         git stream tcp nowait nobody  /usr/bin/git-daemon
 155                 git-daemon --inetd --verbose
 156                 --syslog --export-all
 157                 /pub/foo /pub/bar
 158 ------------------------------------------------
 159
 160
 161 git-daemon as inetd server for virtual hosts::
 162         To set up `git-daemon` as an inetd service that handles
 163         repositories for different virtual hosts, `www.example.com`
 164         and `www.example.org`, place an entry like the following into
 165         `/etc/inetd` all on one line:
 166 +
 167 ------------------------------------------------
 168         git stream tcp nowait nobody /usr/bin/git-daemon
 169                 git-daemon --inetd --verbose
 170                 --syslog --export-all
 171                 --interpolated-path=/pub/%H%D
 172                 /pub/www.example.org/software
 173                 /pub/www.example.com/software
 174                 /software
 175 ------------------------------------------------
 176 +
 177 In this example, the root-level directory `/pub` will contain
 178 a subdirectory for each virtual host name supported.
 179 Further, both hosts advertise repositories simply as
 180 `git://www.example.com/software/repo.git`.  For pre-1.4.0
 181 clients, a symlink from `/software` into the appropriate
 182 default repository could be made as well.
 183
 184
 185 Author
 186 ------
 187 Written by Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>, YOSHIFUJI Hideaki
 188 <yoshfuji@linux-ipv6.org> and the git-list <git@vger.kernel.org>
 189
 190 Documentation
 191 --------------
 192 Documentation by Junio C Hamano and the git-list <git@vger.kernel.org>.
 193
 194 GIT
 195 ---
 196 Part of the gitlink:git[7] suite
 197