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A-Dubb
A-Dubb

Reputation: 1709

How to start git daemon on Windows

How do I start the git daemon on Windows in order to allow it to begin serving requests? Seems like msysgit is supposed to install it as a Windows Service or something but I don't see one.

Upvotes: 25

Views: 29500

Answers (4)

Fester_Stank
Fester_Stank

Reputation: 91

I've had an issue with this same problem. So I spent my Saturday (because I have no life) putting together a solution :)

I've uploaded self-contained .NET Core worker app that can be installed as a windows service here.

Currently, it's very basic and will configure the Daemon to read-only, if you want to be able to push back where-ever your git remote is hosted, add the tag --enable-receive-pack to line 9 in worker.cs and recompile.

To broadcast a specific location on your host, on the same line, add --base-path=C:\Path\To\Repo.

I'll probably make some improvement on this in the future for extra configurability :)

**edit: Needs git installed on the host machine.

Upvotes: 0

VonC
VonC

Reputation: 1323663

With Git 2.34 (Q4 2021), as part of the new built-in fsmonitor, starting a Git daemon on Windows will be easier:

See commit 05881a6, commit fdb1322, commit 8750249, commit 9bd51d4, commit a3e2033, commit 64bc752 (20 Sep 2021) by Jeff Hostetler (Jeff-Hostetler).
See commit 59c9232 (20 Sep 2021) by Carlo Marcelo Arenas Belón (carenas).
(Merged by Junio C Hamano -- gitster -- in commit af303ee, 13 Oct 2021)

simple-ipc/ipc-win32: add Windows ACL to named pipe

Signed-off-by: Jeff Hostetler

Set an ACL on the named pipe to allow the well-known group EVERYONE to read and write to the IPC server's named pipe.

In the event that the daemon was started with elevation, allow non-elevated clients to communicate with the daemon.

Upvotes: 1

patthoyts
patthoyts

Reputation: 33193

Git for Windows 1.7.4 includes support for git daemon on windows which was missing in previous versions. To export your repository you will need to create a file called git-daemon-export-ok in the .git directory or include the --export-all command line option.

In a git repository run:git daemon --export-all and you can then connect to it from a remote machine eg: git ls-remote git://yourmachine/path/to/repo

Upvotes: 32

sdorra
sdorra

Reputation: 2392

You could use SCM-Manager instead of git daemon.

Upvotes: 7

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