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 <h1>
 git-daemon(1) Manual Page
 </h1>
 <h2>NAME</h2>
 <div class="sectionbody">
 <p>git-daemon -
  A really simple server for Git repositories
 </p>
 </div>
 </div>
 <div id="content">
 <div class="sect1">
 <h2 id="_synopsis">SYNOPSIS</h2>
 <div class="sectionbody">
 <div class="verseblock">
 <pre class="content"><em>git daemon</em> [--verbose] [--syslog] [--export-all]
  [--timeout=&lt;n&gt;] [--init-timeout=&lt;n&gt;] [--max-connections=&lt;n&gt;]
  [--strict-paths] [--base-path=&lt;path&gt;] [--base-path-relaxed]
  [--user-path | --user-path=&lt;path&gt;]
  [--interpolated-path=&lt;pathtemplate&gt;]
  [--reuseaddr] [--detach] [--pid-file=&lt;file&gt;]
  [--enable=&lt;service&gt;] [--disable=&lt;service&gt;]
  [--allow-override=&lt;service&gt;] [--forbid-override=&lt;service&gt;]
  [--access-hook=&lt;path&gt;] [--[no-]informative-errors]
  [--inetd |
  [--listen=&lt;host_or_ipaddr&gt;] [--port=&lt;n&gt;]
  [--user=&lt;user&gt; [--group=&lt;group&gt;]]]
  [&lt;directory&gt;&#8230;]</pre>
 <div class="attribution">
 </div></div>
 </div>
 </div>
 <div class="sect1">
 <h2 id="_description">DESCRIPTION</h2>
 <div class="sectionbody">
 <div class="paragraph"><p>A really simple TCP Git daemon that normally listens on port "DEFAULT_GIT_PORT"
 aka 9418. It waits for a connection asking for a service, and will serve
 that service if it is enabled.</p></div>
 <div class="paragraph"><p>It verifies that the directory has the magic file "git-daemon-export-ok", and
 it will refuse to export any Git directory that hasn&#8217;t explicitly been marked
 for export this way (unless the <em>--export-all</em> parameter is specified). If you
 pass some directory paths as <em>git daemon</em> arguments, you can further restrict
 the offers to a whitelist comprising of those.</p></div>
 <div class="paragraph"><p>By default, only <code>upload-pack</code> service is enabled, which serves
 <em>git fetch-pack</em> and <em>git ls-remote</em> clients, which are invoked
 from <em>git fetch</em>, <em>git pull</em>, and <em>git clone</em>.</p></div>
 <div class="paragraph"><p>This is ideally suited for read-only updates, i.e., pulling from
 Git repositories.</p></div>
 <div class="paragraph"><p>An <code>upload-archive</code> also exists to serve <em>git archive</em>.</p></div>
 </div>
 </div>
 <div class="sect1">
 <h2 id="_options">OPTIONS</h2>
 <div class="sectionbody">
 <div class="dlist"><dl>
 <dt class="hdlist1">
 --strict-paths
 </dt>
 <dd>
 <p>
  Match paths exactly (i.e. don&#8217;t allow "/foo/repo" when the real path is
  "/foo/repo.git" or "/foo/repo/.git") and don&#8217;t do user-relative paths.
  <em>git daemon</em> will refuse to start when this option is enabled and no
  whitelist is specified.
 </p>
 </dd>
 <dt class="hdlist1">
 --base-path=&lt;path&gt;
 </dt>
 <dd>
 <p>
  Remap all the path requests as relative to the given path.
  This is sort of "Git root" - if you run <em>git daemon</em> with
  <em>--base-path=/srv/git</em> on example.com, then if you later try to pull
  <em>git://example.com/hello.git</em>, <em>git daemon</em> will interpret the path
  as <em>/srv/git/hello.git</em>.
 </p>
 </dd>
 <dt class="hdlist1">
 --base-path-relaxed
 </dt>
 <dd>
 <p>
  If --base-path is enabled and repo lookup fails, with this option
  <em>git daemon</em> will attempt to lookup without prefixing the base path.
  This is useful for switching to --base-path usage, while still
  allowing the old paths.
 </p>
 </dd>
 <dt class="hdlist1">
 --interpolated-path=&lt;pathtemplate&gt;
 </dt>
 <dd>
 <p>
  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
  converted to all lowercase, %CH for the canonical hostname,
  %IP for the server&#8217;s IP address, %P for the port number,
  and %D for the absolute path of the named repository.
  After interpolation, the path is validated against the directory
  whitelist.
 </p>
 </dd>
 <dt class="hdlist1">
 --export-all
 </dt>
 <dd>
 <p>
  Allow pulling from all directories that look like Git repositories
  (have the <em>objects</em> and <em>refs</em> subdirectories), even if they
  do not have the <em>git-daemon-export-ok</em> file.
 </p>
 </dd>
 <dt class="hdlist1">
 --inetd
 </dt>
 <dd>
 <p>
  Have the server run as an inetd service. Implies --syslog.
  Incompatible with --detach, --port, --listen, --user and --group
  options.
 </p>
 </dd>
 <dt class="hdlist1">
 --listen=&lt;host_or_ipaddr&gt;
 </dt>
 <dd>
 <p>
  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 <em>--inetd</em> option.
 </p>
 </dd>
 <dt class="hdlist1">
 --port=&lt;n&gt;
 </dt>
 <dd>
 <p>
  Listen on an alternative port. Incompatible with <em>--inetd</em> option.
 </p>
 </dd>
 <dt class="hdlist1">
 --init-timeout=&lt;n&gt;
 </dt>
 <dd>
 <p>
  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).
 </p>
 </dd>
 <dt class="hdlist1">
 --timeout=&lt;n&gt;
 </dt>
 <dd>
 <p>
  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&#8217;s request.
 </p>
 </dd>
 <dt class="hdlist1">
 --max-connections=&lt;n&gt;
 </dt>
 <dd>
 <p>
  Maximum number of concurrent clients, defaults to 32. Set it to
  zero for no limit.
 </p>
 </dd>
 <dt class="hdlist1">
 --syslog
 </dt>
 <dd>
 <p>
  Log to syslog instead of stderr. Note that this option does not imply
  --verbose, thus by default only error conditions will be logged.
 </p>
 </dd>
 <dt class="hdlist1">
 --user-path
 </dt>
 <dt class="hdlist1">
 --user-path=&lt;path&gt;
 </dt>
 <dd>
 <p>
  Allow &#126;user notation to be used in requests. When
  specified with no parameter, requests to
  git://host/&#126;alice/foo is taken as a request to access
  <em>foo</em> repository in the home directory of user <code>alice</code>.
  If <code>--user-path=path</code> is specified, the same request is
  taken as a request to access <code>path/foo</code> repository in
  the home directory of user <code>alice</code>.
 </p>
 </dd>
 <dt class="hdlist1">
 --verbose
 </dt>
 <dd>
 <p>
  Log details about the incoming connections and requested files.
 </p>
 </dd>
 <dt class="hdlist1">
 --reuseaddr
 </dt>
 <dd>
 <p>
  Use SO_REUSEADDR when binding the listening socket.
  This allows the server to restart without waiting for
  old connections to time out.
 </p>
 </dd>
 <dt class="hdlist1">
 --detach
 </dt>
 <dd>
 <p>
  Detach from the shell. Implies --syslog.
 </p>
 </dd>
 <dt class="hdlist1">
 --pid-file=&lt;file&gt;
 </dt>
 <dd>
 <p>
  Save the process id in <em>file</em>. Ignored when the daemon
  is run under <code>--inetd</code>.
 </p>
 </dd>
 <dt class="hdlist1">
 --user=&lt;user&gt;
 </dt>
 <dt class="hdlist1">
 --group=&lt;group&gt;
 </dt>
 <dd>
 <p>
  Change daemon&#8217;s uid and gid before entering the service loop.
  When only <code>--user</code> is given without <code>--group</code>, the
  primary group ID for the user is used. The values of
  the option are given to <code>getpwnam(3)</code> and <code>getgrnam(3)</code>
  and numeric IDs are not supported.
 </p>
 <div class="paragraph"><p>Giving these options is an error when used with <code>--inetd</code>; use
 the facility of inet daemon to achieve the same before spawning
 <em>git daemon</em> if needed.</p></div>
 <div class="paragraph"><p>Like many programs that switch user id, the daemon does not reset
 environment variables such as <code>$HOME</code> when it runs git programs,
 e.g. <code>upload-pack</code> and <code>receive-pack</code>. When using this option, you
 may also want to set and export <code>HOME</code> to point at the home
 directory of <code>&lt;user&gt;</code> before starting the daemon, and make sure any
 Git configuration files in that directory are readable by <code>&lt;user&gt;</code>.</p></div>
 </dd>
 <dt class="hdlist1">
 --enable=&lt;service&gt;
 </dt>
 <dt class="hdlist1">
 --disable=&lt;service&gt;
 </dt>
 <dd>
 <p>
  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.
 </p>
 </dd>
 <dt class="hdlist1">
 --allow-override=&lt;service&gt;
 </dt>
 <dt class="hdlist1">
 --forbid-override=&lt;service&gt;
 </dt>
 <dd>
 <p>
  Allow/forbid overriding the site-wide default with per
  repository configuration. By default, all the services
  are overridable.
 </p>
 </dd>
 <dt class="hdlist1">
 --[no-]informative-errors
 </dt>
 <dd>
 <p>
  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.
 </p>
 </dd>
 <dt class="hdlist1">
 --access-hook=&lt;path&gt;
 </dt>
 <dd>
 <p>
  Every time a client connects, first run an external command
  specified by the &lt;path&gt; with service name (e.g. "upload-pack"),
  path to the repository, hostname (%H), canonical hostname
  (%CH), ip address (%IP), and tcp port (%P) as its command line
  arguments. The external command can decide to decline the
  service by exiting with a non-zero status (or to allow it by
  exiting with a zero status). It can also look at the $REMOTE_ADDR
  and $REMOTE_PORT environment variables to learn about the
  requestor when making this decision.
 </p>
 <div class="paragraph"><p>The external command can optionally write a single line to its
 standard output to be sent to the requestor as an error message when
 it declines the service.</p></div>
 </dd>
 <dt class="hdlist1">
 &lt;directory&gt;
 </dt>
 <dd>
 <p>
  A directory to add to the whitelist of allowed directories. Unless
  --strict-paths is specified this will also include subdirectories
  of each named directory.
 </p>
 </dd>
 </dl></div>
 </div>
 </div>
 <div class="sect1">
 <h2 id="_services">SERVICES</h2>
 <div class="sectionbody">
 <div class="paragraph"><p>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 <em>git archive</em> 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.</p></div>
 <div class="dlist"><dl>
 <dt class="hdlist1">
 upload-pack
 </dt>
 <dd>
 <p>
  This serves <em>git fetch-pack</em> and <em>git ls-remote</em>
  clients. It is enabled by default, but a repository can
  disable it by setting <code>daemon.uploadpack</code> configuration
  item to <code>false</code>.
 </p>
 </dd>
 <dt class="hdlist1">
 upload-archive
 </dt>
 <dd>
 <p>
  This serves <em>git archive --remote</em>. It is disabled by
  default, but a repository can enable it by setting
  <code>daemon.uploadarch</code> configuration item to <code>true</code>.
 </p>
 </dd>
 <dt class="hdlist1">
 receive-pack
 </dt>
 <dd>
 <p>
  This serves <em>git send-pack</em> clients, allowing anonymous
  push. It is disabled by default, as there is <em>no</em>
  authentication in the protocol (in other words, anybody
  can push anything into the repository, including removal
  of refs). This is solely meant for a closed LAN setting
  where everybody is friendly. This service can be
  enabled by setting <code>daemon.receivepack</code> configuration item to
  <code>true</code>.
 </p>
 </dd>
 </dl></div>
 </div>
 </div>
 <div class="sect1">
 <h2 id="_examples">EXAMPLES</h2>
 <div class="sectionbody">
 <div class="dlist"><dl>
 <dt class="hdlist1">
 We assume the following in /etc/services
 </dt>
 <dd>
 <div class="listingblock">
 <div class="content">
 <pre><code>$ grep 9418 /etc/services
 git 9418/tcp # Git Version Control System</code></pre>
 </div></div>
 </dd>
 <dt class="hdlist1">
 <em>git daemon</em> as inetd server
 </dt>
 <dd>
 <p>
  To set up <em>git daemon</em> 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:
 </p>
 <div class="listingblock">
 <div class="content">
 <pre><code> git stream tcp nowait nobody /usr/bin/git
  git daemon --inetd --verbose --export-all
  /pub/foo /pub/bar</code></pre>
 </div></div>
 </dd>
 <dt class="hdlist1">
 <em>git daemon</em> as inetd server for virtual hosts
 </dt>
 <dd>
 <p>
  To set up <em>git daemon</em> as an inetd service that handles
  repositories for different virtual hosts, <code>www.example.com</code>
  and <code>www.example.org</code>, place an entry like the following into
  <code>/etc/inetd</code> all on one line:
 </p>
 <div class="listingblock">
 <div class="content">
 <pre><code> 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
  /software</code></pre>
 </div></div>
 <div class="paragraph"><p>In this example, the root-level directory <code>/pub</code> will contain
 a subdirectory for each virtual host name supported.
 Further, both hosts advertise repositories simply as
 <code>git://www.example.com/software/repo.git</code>. For pre-1.4.0
 clients, a symlink from <code>/software</code> into the appropriate
 default repository could be made as well.</p></div>
 </dd>
 <dt class="hdlist1">
 <em>git daemon</em> as regular daemon for virtual hosts
 </dt>
 <dd>
 <p>
  To set up <em>git daemon</em> as a regular, non-inetd service that
  handles repositories for multiple virtual hosts based on
  their IP addresses, start the daemon like this:
 </p>
 <div class="listingblock">
 <div class="content">
 <pre><code> git daemon --verbose --export-all
  --interpolated-path=/pub/%IP/%D
  /pub/192.168.1.200/software
  /pub/10.10.220.23/software</code></pre>
 </div></div>
 <div class="paragraph"><p>In this example, the root-level directory <code>/pub</code> will contain
 a subdirectory for each virtual host IP address supported.
 Repositories can still be accessed by hostname though, assuming
 they correspond to these IP addresses.</p></div>
 </dd>
 <dt class="hdlist1">
 selectively enable/disable services per repository
 </dt>
 <dd>
 <p>
  To enable <em>git archive --remote</em> and disable <em>git fetch</em> against
  a repository, have the following in the configuration file in the
  repository (that is the file <em>config</em> next to <em>HEAD</em>, <em>refs</em> and
  <em>objects</em>).
 </p>
 <div class="listingblock">
 <div class="content">
 <pre><code> [daemon]
  uploadpack = false
  uploadarch = true</code></pre>
 </div></div>
 </dd>
 </dl></div>
 </div>
 </div>
 <div class="sect1">
 <h2 id="_environment">ENVIRONMENT</h2>
 <div class="sectionbody">
 <div class="paragraph"><p><em>git daemon</em> 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.</p></div>
 </div>
 </div>
 <div class="sect1">
 <h2 id="_git">GIT</h2>
 <div class="sectionbody">
 <div class="paragraph"><p>Part of the <a href="git.html">git(1)</a> suite</p></div>
 </div>
 </div>
 </div>
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