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 a20e053..2cc6075 100644 (file)
--- a/Documentation/git-daemon.txt
+++ b/Documentation/git-daemon.txt
@@ -10,7 +10,8 @@ SYNOPSIS
 [verse]
 'git-daemon' [--verbose] [--syslog] [--inetd | --port=n] [--export-all]
              [--timeout=n] [--init-timeout=n] [--strict-paths]
-             [--base-path=path] [directory...]
+             [--base-path=path] [--user-path | --user-path=path]
+            [directory...]
 
 DESCRIPTION
 -----------
@@ -42,8 +43,7 @@ OPTIONS
        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'. Home directories (the '~login' notation)
-       access is disabled.
+       as '/srv/git/hello.git'.
 
 --export-all::
        Allow pulling from all directories that look like GIT repositories
@@ -70,6 +70,15 @@ 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.