daemon: extend user-relative path notation.

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

diff --git a/Documentation/git-daemon.txt b/Documentation/git-daemon.txt
index 67c5f22..2cc6075 100644 (file)
--- a/Documentation/git-daemon.txt
+++ b/Documentation/git-daemon.txt
@@ -7,8 +7,11 @@ git-daemon - A really simple server for git repositories.
 
 SYNOPSIS
 --------
+[verse]
 'git-daemon' [--verbose] [--syslog] [--inetd | --port=n] [--export-all]
-             [--timeout=n] [--init-timeout=n] [directory...]
+             [--timeout=n] [--init-timeout=n] [--strict-paths]
+             [--base-path=path] [--user-path | --user-path=path]
+            [directory...]
 
 DESCRIPTION
 -----------
@@ -29,13 +32,26 @@ This is ideally suited for read-only updates, ie pulling from git repositories.
 
 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
+       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
+       '--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
+       as '/srv/git/hello.git'.
+
 --export-all::
        Allow pulling from all directories that look like GIT repositories
-       (have the 'objects' subdirectory and a 'HEAD' file), even if they
+       (have the 'objects' and 'refs' subdirectories), even if they
        do not have the 'git-daemon-export-ok' file.
 
 --inetd::
-       Have the server run as an inetd service.
+       Have the server run as an inetd service. Implies --syslog.
 
 --port::
        Listen on an alternative port.
@@ -54,12 +70,27 @@ OPTIONS
        Log to syslog instead of stderr. Note that this option does not imply
        --verbose, thus by default only error conditions will be logged.
 
+--user-path, --user-path=path::
+       Allow ~user notation to be used in requests.  When
+       specified with no parameter, requests to
+       git://host/~alice/foo is taken as a request to access
+       'foo' repository in the home directory of user `alice`.
+       If `--user-path=path` is specified, the same request is
+       taken as a request to access `path/foo` repository in
+       the home directory of user `alice`.
+
 --verbose::
        Log details about the incoming connections and requested files.
 
+<directory>::
+       A directory to add to the whitelist of allowed directories. Unless
+       --strict-paths is specified this will also include subdirectories
+       of each named directory.
+
 Author
 ------
-Written by Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org> and YOSHIFUJI Hideaki <yoshfuji@linux-ipv6.org>
+Written by Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>, YOSHIFUJI Hideaki
+<yoshfuji@linux-ipv6.org> and the git-list <git@vger.kernel.org>
 
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