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diff --git a/Documentation/git-daemon.txt b/Documentation/git-daemon.txt index a85121c689..31b28fc29f 100644 --- a/Documentation/git-daemon.txt +++ b/Documentation/git-daemon.txt @@ -9,15 +9,15 @@ SYNOPSIS -------- [verse] 'git daemon' [--verbose] [--syslog] [--export-all] - [--timeout=n] [--init-timeout=n] [--max-connections=n] - [--strict-paths] [--base-path=path] [--base-path-relaxed] - [--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...] + [--timeout=<n>] [--init-timeout=<n>] [--max-connections=<n>] + [--strict-paths] [--base-path=<path>] [--base-path-relaxed] + [--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>...] DESCRIPTION ----------- @@ -28,40 +28,40 @@ that service if it is enabled. It verifies that the directory has the magic file "git-daemon-export-ok", and it will refuse to export any git directory that hasn't explicitly been marked for export this way (unless the '--export-all' parameter is specified). If you -pass some directory paths as 'git-daemon' arguments, you can further restrict +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=path:: +--base-path=<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. ---interpolated-path=pathtemplate:: +--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 but @@ -78,29 +78,31 @@ OPTIONS --inetd:: Have the server run as an inetd service. Implies --syslog. - Incompatible with --port, --listen, --user and --group options. + Incompatible with --detach, --port, --listen, --user and --group + options. ---listen=host_or_ipaddr:: +--listen=<host_or_ipaddr>:: Listen on a specific IP address or hostname. IP addresses can be either an IPv4 address or an IPv6 address if supported. If IPv6 is not supported, then --listen=hostname is also not supported and --listen must be given an IPv4 address. + Can be given more than once. Incompatible with '--inetd' option. ---port=n:: +--port=<n>:: 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 +--init-timeout=<n>:: + 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=<n>:: + 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:: +--max-connections=<n>:: Maximum number of concurrent clients, defaults to 32. Set it to zero for no limit. @@ -109,7 +111,7 @@ OPTIONS --verbose, thus by default only error conditions will be logged. --user-path:: ---user-path=path:: +--user-path=<path>:: Allow {tilde}user notation to be used in requests. When specified with no parameter, requests to git://host/{tilde}alice/foo is taken as a request to access @@ -129,12 +131,12 @@ OPTIONS --detach:: Detach from the shell. Implies --syslog. ---pid-file=file:: +--pid-file=<file>:: Save the process id in 'file'. Ignored when the daemon is run under `--inetd`. ---user=user:: ---group=group:: +--user=<user>:: +--group=<group>:: Change daemon's uid and gid before entering the service loop. When only `--user` is given without `--group`, the primary group ID for the user is used. The values of @@ -143,22 +145,32 @@ 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:: +--enable=<service>:: +--disable=<service>:: Enable/disable the service site-wide per default. Note that a service disabled site-wide can still be enabled per repository if it is marked overridable and the repository enables the service with a configuration item. ---allow-override=service:: ---forbid-override=service:: +--allow-override=<service>:: +--forbid-override=<service>:: Allow/forbid overriding the site-wide default with per 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 @@ -169,24 +181,24 @@ 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 @@ -204,8 +216,8 @@ $ 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: @@ -217,8 +229,8 @@ git 9418/tcp # Git Version Control System ------------------------------------------------ -'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: @@ -240,8 +252,8 @@ 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: + @@ -258,7 +270,7 @@ 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'). @@ -272,22 +284,11 @@ selectively enable/disable services per repository:: ENVIRONMENT ----------- -'git-daemon' will set REMOTE_ADDR to the IP address of the client +'git daemon' will set REMOTE_ADDR to the IP address of the client that connected to it, if the IP address is available. REMOTE_ADDR will be available in the environment of hooks called when services are performed. - - -Author ------- -Written by Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>, YOSHIFUJI Hideaki -<yoshfuji@linux-ipv6.org> and the git-list <git@vger.kernel.org> - -Documentation --------------- -Documentation by Junio C Hamano and the git-list <git@vger.kernel.org>. - GIT --- Part of the linkgit:git[1] suite |