Add virtualization support to git-daemon

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

diff --git a/Documentation/git-daemon.txt b/Documentation/git-daemon.txt
index 741f2c69bdace527c57b644ed072ead4dcb46201..51d7c94d7df0c15a74855f5ef910def64045681e 100644 (file)
--- a/Documentation/git-daemon.txt
+++ b/Documentation/git-daemon.txt
@@ -11,6 +11,7 @@ SYNOPSIS
 'git-daemon' [--verbose] [--syslog] [--inetd | --port=n] [--export-all]
              [--timeout=n] [--init-timeout=n] [--strict-paths]
              [--base-path=path] [--user-path | --user-path=path]
+             [--interpolated-path=pathtemplate]
              [--enable=service] [--disable=service]
             [--allow-override=service] [--forbid-override=service]
              [--reuseaddr] [--detach] [--pid-file=file]
@@ -50,6 +51,12 @@ OPTIONS
        'git://example.com/hello.git', `git-daemon` will interpret the path
        as '/srv/git/hello.git'.
 
+--interpolated-path=pathtemplate::
+       To support virtual hosting, an interpolated path template can be
+       used to dynamically construct alternate paths.  The template
+       supports %H for the target hostname as supplied by the client,
+       and %D for the absolute path of the named repository.
+
 --export-all::
        Allow pulling from all directories that look like GIT repositories
        (have the 'objects' and 'refs' subdirectories), even if they
@@ -135,6 +142,46 @@ upload-pack::
        disable it by setting `daemon.uploadpack` configuration
        item to `false`.
 
+EXAMPLES
+--------
+git-daemon as inetd server::
+       To set up `git-daemon` as an inetd service that handles any
+       repository under the whitelisted set of directories, /pub/foo
+       and /pub/bar, place an entry like the following into
+       /etc/inetd all on one line:
++
+------------------------------------------------
+       git stream tcp nowait nobody  /usr/bin/git-daemon
+               git-daemon --inetd --verbose
+               --syslog --export-all
+               /pub/foo /pub/bar
+------------------------------------------------
+
+
+git-daemon as inetd server for virtual hosts::
+       To set up `git-daemon` as an inetd service that handles
+       repositories for different virtual hosts, `www.example.com`
+       and `www.example.org`, place an entry like the following into
+       `/etc/inetd` all on one line:
++
+------------------------------------------------
+       git stream tcp nowait nobody /usr/bin/git-daemon
+               git-daemon --inetd --verbose
+               --syslog --export-all
+               --interpolated-path=/pub/%H%D
+               /pub/www.example.org/software
+               /pub/www.example.com/software
+               /software
+------------------------------------------------
++
+In this example, the root-level directory `/pub` will contain
+a subdirectory for each virtual host name supported.
+Further, both hosts advertise repositories simply as
+`git://www.example.com/software/repo.git`.  For pre-1.4.0
+clients, a symlink from `/software` into the appropriate
+default repository could be made as well.
+
+
 Author
 ------
 Written by Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>, YOSHIFUJI Hideaki