[PATCH 2/2] Update git-daemon's documentation wrt. new options
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Petr Baudis <pasky@suse.cz>
- Date
- Oct 21, 2005, 00:28 UTC
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- <20051021002845.26819.46168.stgit@machine.or.cz>
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- <20051021002842.26819.56707.stgit@machine.or.cz>
New options --timeout, --init-timeout, --export-all and whitelist support were added to git-daemon, but noone bothered to also add the proper documentation. This patch aims to fix that.
Signed-off-by: Petr Baudis <pasky@suse.cz> ---
Documentation/git-daemon.txt | 22 ++++++++++++++++++++-- 1 files changed, 20 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)
diff --git a/Documentation/git-daemon.txt b/Documentation/git-daemon.txt index a013a58..67c5f22 100644 --- a/Documentation/git-daemon.txt +++ b/Documentation/git-daemon.txt @@ -7,7 +7,8 @@ git-daemon - A really simple server for SYNOPSIS -------- -'git-daemon' [--verbose] [--syslog] [--inetd | --port=n] +'git-daemon' [--verbose] [--syslog] [--inetd | --port=n] [--export-all] + [--timeout=n] [--init-timeout=n] [directory...] DESCRIPTION ----------- @@ -20,18 +21,35 @@ what directory to upload, and it verifie It verifies that the directory has the magic file "git-daemon-export-ok", and it will refuse to export any git directory that hasn't explicitly been marked -for export this way. +for export this way (unless the '--export-all' parameter is specified). If you +pass some directory paths as 'git-daemon' arguments, you can further restrict +the offers to a whitelist comprising of those. This is ideally suited for read-only updates, ie pulling from git repositories. OPTIONS ------- +--export-all:: + Allow pulling from all directories that look like GIT repositories + (have the 'objects' subdirectory and a 'HEAD' file), even if they + do not have the 'git-daemon-export-ok' file. + --inetd:: Have the server run as an inetd service. --port:: Listen on an alternative port. +--init-timeout:: + Timeout between the moment the connection is established and the + client request is received (typically a rather low value, since + that should be basically immediate). + +--timeout:: + Timeout for specific client sub-requests. This includes the time + it takes for the server to process the sub-request and time spent + waiting for next client's request. + --syslog:: Log to syslog instead of stderr. Note that this option does not imply --verbose, thus by default only error conditions will be logged.