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diff --git a/Documentation/git-daemon.txt b/Documentation/git-daemon.txt index 344f24ea59..4ba4b75c11 100644 --- a/Documentation/git-daemon.txt +++ b/Documentation/git-daemon.txt @@ -8,12 +8,12 @@ git-daemon - A really simple server for git repositories SYNOPSIS -------- [verse] -'git-daemon' [--verbose] [--syslog] [--export-all] - [--timeout=n] [--init-timeout=n] [--strict-paths] - [--base-path=path] [--user-path | --user-path=path] - [--interpolated-path=pathtemplate] - [--reuseaddr] [--detach] [--pid-file=file] - [--enable=service] [--disable=service] +'git daemon' [--verbose] [--syslog] [--export-all] + [--timeout=n] [--init-timeout=n] [--strict-paths] + [--base-path=path] [--user-path | --user-path=path] + [--interpolated-path=pathtemplate] + [--reuseaddr] [--detach] [--pid-file=file] + [--enable=service] [--disable=service] [--allow-override=service] [--forbid-override=service] [--inetd | [--listen=host_or_ipaddr] [--port=n] [--user=user [--group=group]] [directory...] @@ -31,32 +31,32 @@ pass some directory paths as 'git-daemon' arguments, you can further restrict the offers to a whitelist comprising of those. By default, only `upload-pack` service is enabled, which serves -`git-fetch-pack` and `git-ls-remote` clients, which are invoked -from `git-fetch`, `git-pull`, and `git-clone`. +'git-fetch-pack' and 'git-ls-remote' clients, which are invoked +from 'git-fetch', 'git-pull', and 'git-clone'. This is ideally suited for read-only updates, i.e., pulling from git repositories. -An `upload-archive` also exists to serve `git-archive`. +An `upload-archive` also exists to serve 'git-archive'. OPTIONS ------- --strict-paths:: Match paths exactly (i.e. don't allow "/foo/repo" when the real path is "/foo/repo.git" or "/foo/repo/.git") and don't do user-relative paths. - git-daemon will refuse to start when this option is enabled and no + 'git-daemon' will refuse to start when this option is enabled and no whitelist is specified. --base-path:: Remap all the path requests as relative to the given path. - This is sort of "GIT root" - if you run git-daemon with + This is sort of "GIT root" - if you run 'git-daemon' with '--base-path=/srv/git' on example.com, then if you later try to pull - 'git://example.com/hello.git', `git-daemon` will interpret the path + 'git://example.com/hello.git', 'git-daemon' will interpret the path as '/srv/git/hello.git'. --base-path-relaxed:: If --base-path is enabled and repo lookup fails, with this option - `git-daemon` will attempt to lookup without prefixing the base path. + 'git-daemon' will attempt to lookup without prefixing the base path. This is useful for switching to --base-path usage, while still allowing the old paths. @@ -138,7 +138,7 @@ OPTIONS + Giving these options is an error when used with `--inetd`; use the facility of inet daemon to achieve the same before spawning -`git-daemon` if needed. +'git-daemon' if needed. --enable=service:: --disable=service:: @@ -164,24 +164,24 @@ SERVICES These services can be globally enabled/disabled using the command line options of this command. If a finer-grained -control is desired (e.g. to allow `git-archive` to be run +control is desired (e.g. to allow 'git-archive' to be run against only in a few selected repositories the daemon serves), the per-repository configuration file can be used to enable or disable them. upload-pack:: - This serves `git-fetch-pack` and `git-ls-remote` + This serves 'git-fetch-pack' and 'git-ls-remote' clients. It is enabled by default, but a repository can disable it by setting `daemon.uploadpack` configuration item to `false`. upload-archive:: - This serves `git-archive --remote`. It is disabled by + This serves 'git-archive --remote'. It is disabled by default, but a repository can enable it by setting `daemon.uploadarch` configuration item to `true`. receive-pack:: - This serves `git-send-pack` clients, allowing anonymous + This serves 'git-send-pack' clients, allowing anonymous push. It is disabled by default, as there is _no_ authentication in the protocol (in other words, anybody can push anything into the repository, including removal @@ -199,28 +199,28 @@ $ grep 9418 /etc/services git 9418/tcp # Git Version Control System ------------ -git-daemon as inetd server:: - To set up `git-daemon` as an inetd service that handles any +'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 --export-all + git stream tcp nowait nobody /usr/bin/git + git daemon --inetd --verbose --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 +'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 --export-all + git stream tcp nowait nobody /usr/bin/git + git daemon --inetd --verbose --export-all --interpolated-path=/pub/%H%D /pub/www.example.org/software /pub/www.example.com/software @@ -235,13 +235,13 @@ clients, a symlink from `/software` into the appropriate default repository could be made as well. -git-daemon as regular daemon for virtual hosts:: - To set up `git-daemon` as a regular, non-inetd service that +'git-daemon' as regular daemon for virtual hosts:: + To set up 'git-daemon' as a regular, non-inetd service that handles repositories for multiple virtual hosts based on their IP addresses, start the daemon like this: + ------------------------------------------------ - git-daemon --verbose --export-all + git daemon --verbose --export-all --interpolated-path=/pub/%IP/%D /pub/192.168.1.200/software /pub/10.10.220.23/software @@ -253,7 +253,7 @@ Repositories can still be accessed by hostname though, assuming they correspond to these IP addresses. selectively enable/disable services per repository:: - To enable `git-archive --remote` and disable `git-fetch` against + To enable 'git-archive --remote' and disable 'git-fetch' against a repository, have the following in the configuration file in the repository (that is the file 'config' next to 'HEAD', 'refs' and 'objects'). |