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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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