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How to use git-daemon |
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Git can be run in inetd mode and in stand alone mode. But all you want is |
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let a coworker pull from you, and therefore need to set up a git server |
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real quick, right? |
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Note that git-daemon is not really chatty at the moment, especially when |
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things do not go according to plan (e.g. a socket could not be bound). |
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Another word of warning: if you run |
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$ git ls-remote git://127.0.0.1/rule-the-world.git |
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and you see a message like |
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fatal: The remote end hung up unexpectedly |
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it only means that _something_ went wrong. To find out _what_ went wrong, |
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you have to ask the server. (Git refuses to be more precise for your |
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security only. Take off your shoes now. You have any coins in your pockets? |
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Sorry, not allowed -- who knows what you planned to do with them?) |
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With these two caveats, let's see an example: |
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$ git daemon --reuseaddr --verbose --base-path=/home/gitte/git \ |
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--export-all -- /home/gitte/git/rule-the-world.git |
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(Of course, unless your user name is `gitte` _and_ your repository is in |
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~/rule-the-world.git, you have to adjust the paths. If your repository is |
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not bare, be aware that you have to type the path to the .git directory!) |
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This invocation tries to reuse the address if it is already taken |
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(this can save you some debugging, because otherwise killing and restarting |
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git-daemon could just silently fail to bind to a socket). |
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Also, it is (relatively) verbose when somebody actually connects to it. |
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It also sets the base path, which means that all the projects which can be |
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accessed using this daemon have to reside in or under that path. |
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The option `--export-all` just means that you _don't_ have to create a |
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file named `git-daemon-export-ok` in each exported repository. (Otherwise, |
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git-daemon would complain loudly, and refuse to cooperate.) |
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Last of all, the repository which should be exported is specified. It is |
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a good practice to put the paths after a "--" separator. |
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Now, test your daemon with |
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$ git ls-remote git://127.0.0.1/rule-the-world.git |
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If this does not work, find out why, and submit a patch to this document.
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