{"thread":{"id":"23643","subject":"git daemon on Windows environment","startedAt":"2010-04-29T09:07:06Z","lastAt":"2010-05-01T04:17:24Z","messageCount":4,"participants":["santos2010","Tim Visher","Avery Pennarun","Jon Seymour"],"isPatch":false,"patchVersion":null,"patchTotal":null},"messages":[{"id":"140655","messageId":"1272532026043-4979038.post@n2.nabble.com","threadId":"23643","inReplyTo":null,"subject":"git daemon on Windows environment","fromName":"santos2010","fromEmail":"santos.claudia2009@googlemail.com","sentAt":"2010-04-29T09:07:06Z","receivedAt":"2010-04-29T09:07:06Z","isPatch":false,"sender":{"key":"santos.claudia2009@googlemail.com","avatar":null},"body":"\nHello,\n\nI tried to install git daemon on a Windows Server 2003 using cygrunsrv, but\ngot this error:\ncygrunsrv: Error starting a service: QueryServiceStatus: Win32 error 1062:\n\nI googled and found a possible fix:\n\n \" explicitly add Full Control for the SYSTEM user to\n\n C:\\Cygwin\n C:\\Cygwin\\var\n C:\\Cygwin\\var\\log \"\n\nHowever this didn't help as well.\nAnyone has experience with this installation? Any tips?\n\nThanks ina advance,\n\nSantos\n-- \nView this message in context: http://git.661346.n2.nabble.com/git-daemon-on-Windows-environment-tp4979038p4979038.html\nSent from the git mailing list archive at Nabble.com.\n"},{"id":"140659","messageId":"t2jc115fd3c1004301434ofe8970fo2ea933dd450847d7@mail.gmail.com","threadId":"23643","inReplyTo":"1272532026043-4979038.post@n2.nabble.com","subject":"Re: git daemon on Windows environment","fromName":"Tim Visher","fromEmail":"tim.visher@gmail.com","sentAt":"2010-04-30T21:34:36Z","receivedAt":"2010-04-30T21:34:36Z","isPatch":false,"sender":{"key":"tim.visher@gmail.com","avatar":"https://gravatar.com/avatar/98307ce54bcac1a46b5d845827d5386e2a27895ff08790cdd3877ad527760575?d=mp&s=160"},"body":"On Thu, Apr 29, 2010 at 5:07 AM, santos2010\n wrote:\n>\n> Hello,\n>\n> I tried to install git daemon on a Windows Server 2003 using cygrunsrv, but\n> got this error:\n> cygrunsrv: Error starting a service: QueryServiceStatus:  Win32 error 1062:\n>\n> I googled and found a possible fix:\n>\n>  \" explicitly add Full Control for the SYSTEM user to\n>\n>  C:\\Cygwin\n>  C:\\Cygwin\\var\n>  C:\\Cygwin\\var\\log \"\n>\n> However this didn't help as well.\n> Anyone has experience with this installation? Any tips?\n>\n> Thanks ina advance,\n\nAs far as I know, git --daemon is explicitly not supported in Windows\nenvironments. At least that was the case not too long ago.\n\nIf you're running git --daemon because of its efficiency, have you\nconsidered the fact that [smart-http][] is almost as efficient? That\nshould work in any http server, a plethora of which exist for Windoze.\n\nAlso, file system cloning is very efficient so if you're trying to\nshare a repository you could in theory share over the file system\nusing filesystem permissions to allow for cloning.\n\nJust food for thought.\n\n[smart-http]: http://progit.org/2010/03/04/smart-http.html\n\n-- \n\nIn Christ,\n\nTimmy V.\n\nhttp://burningones.com/\nhttp://five.sentenc.es/ - Spend less time on e-mail\n"},{"id":"140661","messageId":"j2q32541b131004301444iea34b138v4c34260aa82f8ec8@mail.gmail.com","threadId":"23643","inReplyTo":"t2jc115fd3c1004301434ofe8970fo2ea933dd450847d7@mail.gmail.com","subject":"Re: git daemon on Windows environment","fromName":"Avery Pennarun","fromEmail":"apenwarr@gmail.com","sentAt":"2010-04-30T21:44:03Z","receivedAt":"2010-04-30T21:44:03Z","isPatch":false,"sender":{"key":"apenwarr@gmail.com","avatar":"https://avatars.githubusercontent.com/u/20592?v=4"},"body":"On Fri, Apr 30, 2010 at 5:34 PM, Tim Visher wrote:\n> As far as I know, git --daemon is explicitly not supported in Windows\n> environments.  At least that was the case not too long ago.\n\ngit daemon works perfectly fine in cygwin. I've heard that the\nmsysgit one doesn't necessarily work, but that may have been fixed.\n\nI haven't tried using the git daemon as a service, though; I mostly\nuse it as an ad-hoc thing to easily let me exchange branches with my\nco-workers before they're ready to be pushed into the \"real\" server,\nthus it doesn't matter much if git-daemon doesn't restart on boot. So\nI can't help with the original poster's problem.\n\n> If you're running git --daemon because of its efficiency, have you\n> considered the fact that [smart-http][] is almost as efficient?  That\n> should work in any http server, a plethora of which exist for Windoze.\n\nThat's about 10000 times harder than running 'git daemon' from the\ncommand line, though, if all you want is ad-hoc sharing.\n\nYour suggestion is probably a good one for setting up a \"real\" Windows\ngit server; setting up a Windows ssh server should also work. We just\nuse a Linux server at work, even for our Windows users, and life is\nfine.\n\n> Also, file system cloning is very efficient so if you're trying to\n> share a repository you could in theory share over the file system\n> using filesystem permissions to allow for cloning.\n\nHmm, in my experience, git cloning over NFS/SMB is kind of crappy;\nusing a real git server is much faster. This is because of latency:\nthe client doesn't know which bytes to read until it reads some of the\nother bytes, so there's a lot of back-and-forth communication. The\n\"real\" git protocols (like git daemon, smart http, ssh server, etc)\nlet the server make these decisions and can thus go much faster.\n\nHave fun,\n\nAvery\n"},{"id":"140670","messageId":"r2s2cfc40321004302117h1e9f4068z442b7018dd640abf@mail.gmail.com","threadId":"23643","inReplyTo":"1272532026043-4979038.post@n2.nabble.com","subject":"Re: git daemon on Windows environment","fromName":"Jon Seymour","fromEmail":"jon.seymour@gmail.com","sentAt":"2010-05-01T04:17:24Z","receivedAt":"2010-05-01T04:17:24Z","isPatch":false,"sender":{"key":"jon.seymour@gmail.com","avatar":"https://avatars.githubusercontent.com/u/207131?v=4"},"body":"On Thu, Apr 29, 2010 at 7:07 PM, santos2010\n wrote:\n>\n> Hello,\n>\n> I tried to install git daemon on a Windows Server 2003 using cygrunsrv, but\n> got this error:\n> cygrunsrv: Error starting a service: QueryServiceStatus:  Win32 error 1062:\n>\n> I googled and found a possible fix:\n>\n>  \" explicitly add Full Control for the SYSTEM user to\n>\n>  C:\\Cygwin\n>  C:\\Cygwin\\var\n>  C:\\Cygwin\\var\\log \"\n>\n> However this didn't help as well.\n> Anyone has experience with this installation? Any tips?\n\nI run git-daemon as a Windows service under cygrunsrv and it works\npretty well for me.\n\nI'd double check that you can launch git daemon with the arguments you\nhave registered with cygrunsrv (use cygrunsrv -LV to see these).\n\nAlso, check any output that might be in /var/log/git-daemon.log. Make\nsure, of course, that you don't have another copy of git-daemon\nrunning when you start the Windows service.\n\njon.\n"}]}