primary group ID for the user is used. The values of
the option are given to `getpwnam(3)` and `getgrnam(3)`
and numeric IDs are not supported.
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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.
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Like many programs that switch user id, the daemon does not reset
environment variables such as `HOME` when it runs git programs,
e.g. `upload-pack` and `receive-pack`. When using this option, you
may also want to set and export `HOME` to point at the home
directory of _<user>_ before starting the daemon, and make sure any
Git configuration files in that directory are readable by _<user>_.
`--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 a configuration
item.
`--allow-override=<service>`::
`--forbid-override=<service>`::
Allow/forbid overriding the site-wide default with per
repository configuration. By default, all the services
may be overridden.
`--informative-errors`::
`--no-informative-errors`::
When informative errors are turned on, git-daemon will report
more verbose errors to the client, differentiating conditions
like "no such repository" from "repository not exported". This
is more convenient for clients, but may leak information about
the existence of unexported repositories. When informative
errors are not enabled, all errors report "access denied" to the
client. The default is `--no-informative-errors`.
`--access-hook=<path>`::
Every time a client connects, first run an external command
specified by the <path> with service name (e.g. "upload-pack"),
path to the repository, hostname (`%H`), canonical hostname
(`%CH`), IP address (`%IP`), and TCP port (`%P`) as its command-line
arguments. The external command can decide to decline the
service by exiting with a non-zero status (or to allow it by
exiting with a zero status). It can also look at the $REMOTE_ADDR
and `$REMOTE_PORT` environment variables to learn about the
requestor when making this decision.
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The external command can optionally write a single line to its
standard output to be sent to the requestor as an error message when
it declines the service.
_<directory>_::
The remaining arguments provide a list of directories. If any
directories are specified, then the `git-daemon` process will
serve a requested directory only if it is contained in one of
these directories. If `--strict-paths` is specified, then the
requested directory must match one of these directories exactly.
SERVICES
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These services can be globally enabled/disabled using the
command-line options of this command. If 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 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`. It is disabled by
default, but a repository can enable