Merge branch 'kh/update-ref'

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

diff --git a/Documentation/git-daemon.txt b/Documentation/git-daemon.txt
index f902161c087a34d4e244a516cc6dd2e259af2e2e..344f24ea59a7f85473da4e865219bcdc0fb9db33 100644 (file)
--- a/Documentation/git-daemon.txt
+++ b/Documentation/git-daemon.txt
@@ -31,8 +31,8 @@ pass some directory paths as 'git-daemon' arguments, you can further restrict
 the offers to a whitelist comprising of those.
 
 By default, only `upload-pack` service is enabled, which serves
-`git-fetch-pack` and `git-peek-remote` clients that are invoked
-from `git-fetch`, `git-ls-remote`, and `git-clone`.
+`git-fetch-pack` and `git-ls-remote` clients, which are invoked
+from `git-fetch`, `git-pull`, and `git-clone`.
 
 This is ideally suited for read-only updates, i.e., pulling from
 git repositories.
@@ -103,7 +103,8 @@ 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::
+--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
@@ -124,9 +125,11 @@ OPTIONS
        Detach from the shell. Implies --syslog.
 
 --pid-file=file::
-       Save the process id in 'file'.
+       Save the process id in 'file'.  Ignored when the daemon
+       is run under `--inetd`.
 
---user=user, --group=group::
+--user=user::
+--group=group::
        Change daemon's uid and gid before entering the service loop.
        When only `--user` is given without `--group`, the
        primary group ID for the user is used.  The values of
@@ -137,14 +140,16 @@ Giving these options is an error when used with `--inetd`; use
 the facility of inet daemon to achieve the same before spawning
 `git-daemon` if needed.
 
---enable=service, --disable=service::
+--enable=service::
+--disable=service::
        Enable/disable the service site-wide per default.  Note
        that a service disabled site-wide can still be enabled
        per repository if it is marked overridable and the
        repository enables the service with an configuration
        item.
 
---allow-override=service, --forbid-override=service::
+--allow-override=service::
+--forbid-override=service::
        Allow/forbid overriding the site-wide default with per
        repository configuration.  By default, all the services
        are overridable.
@@ -157,14 +162,33 @@ the facility of inet daemon to achieve the same before spawning
 SERVICES
 --------
 
+These services can be globally enabled/disabled using the
+command line options of this command.  If a finer-grained
+control is desired (e.g. to allow `git-archive` to be run
+against only in a few selected repositories the daemon serves),
+the per-repository configuration file can be used to enable or
+disable them.
+
 upload-pack::
-       This serves `git-fetch-pack` and `git-peek-remote`
+       This serves `git-fetch-pack` and `git-ls-remote`
        clients.  It is enabled by default, but a repository can
        disable it by setting `daemon.uploadpack` configuration
        item to `false`.
 
 upload-archive::
-       This serves `git-archive --remote`.
+       This serves `git-archive --remote`.  It is disabled by
+       default, but a repository can enable it by setting
+       `daemon.uploadarch` configuration item to `true`.
+
+receive-pack::
+       This serves `git-send-pack` clients, allowing anonymous
+       push.  It is disabled by default, as there is _no_
+       authentication in the protocol (in other words, anybody
+       can push anything into the repository, including removal
+       of refs).  This is solely meant for a closed LAN setting
+       where everybody is friendly.  This service can be
+       enabled by `daemon.receivepack` configuration item to
+       `true`.
 
 EXAMPLES
 --------
@@ -228,6 +252,18 @@ a subdirectory for each virtual host IP address supported.
 Repositories can still be accessed by hostname though, assuming
 they correspond to these IP addresses.
 
+selectively enable/disable services per repository::
+       To enable `git-archive --remote` and disable `git-fetch` against
+       a repository, have the following in the configuration file in the
+       repository (that is the file 'config' next to 'HEAD', 'refs' and
+       'objects').
++
+----------------------------------------------------------------
+       [daemon]
+               uploadpack = false
+               uploadarch = true
+----------------------------------------------------------------
+
 
 Author
 ------
@@ -240,4 +276,4 @@ Documentation by Junio C Hamano and the git-list <git@vger.kernel.org>.
 
 GIT
 ---
-Part of the gitlink:git[7] suite
+Part of the linkgit:git[1] suite