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diff --git a/Documentation/git-http-backend.txt b/Documentation/git-http-backend.txt index 67aec067c8..c8fe08a0c4 100644 --- a/Documentation/git-http-backend.txt +++ b/Documentation/git-http-backend.txt @@ -18,6 +18,11 @@ The program supports clients fetching using both the smart HTTP protcol and the backwards-compatible dumb HTTP protocol, as well as clients pushing using the smart HTTP protocol. +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 +GIT_HTTP_EXPORT_ALL environmental variable is set). + By default, only the `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'. If the client is authenticated, @@ -70,6 +75,7 @@ Apache 2.x:: + ---------------------------------------------------------------- SetEnv GIT_PROJECT_ROOT /var/www/git +SetEnv GIT_HTTP_EXPORT_ALL ScriptAlias /git/ /usr/libexec/git-core/git-http-backend/ ---------------------------------------------------------------- + @@ -157,6 +163,10 @@ by the invoking web server, including: * QUERY_STRING * REQUEST_METHOD +The GIT_HTTP_EXPORT_ALL environmental variable may be passed to +'git-http-backend' to bypass the check for the "git-daemon-export-ok" +file in each repository before allowing export of that repository. + The backend process sets GIT_COMMITTER_NAME to '$REMOTE_USER' and GIT_COMMITTER_EMAIL to '$\{REMOTE_USER}@http.$\{REMOTE_ADDR\}', ensuring that any reflogs created by 'git-receive-pack' contain some |