Question

What is git-daemon? Is it a default git function? I am trying to understand this so that I can host a repository on a server that people can push/pull from.

So far I am able to clone a “–bare” repository onto an Apache server, and then use “update-server-info” to allow the repository to be cloned to other collaborators. However, this does not let collaborators push their commits to the “–bare” repository.

I created the “git-daemon-export-ok” file in my “–bare” repository, and ran the command:
“git-daemon –verbose /git” but I get an error: “git-daemon: command not found.”

Any help would be appreciated.

Answer 1

man git-daemon will tell you quite a bit (and yes, it is a built-in that comes with Git). Git daemon is run via git daemon (notice no hyphen).

However, you should take a look at Gitolite or similar if you intend on hosting Git repositories on a server.

Further, why are you cloning a repository with the intention of having that cloned, and any pushes to it forwarded to the repo it was cloned from? Just clone from the original repository!