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| author | Jeff King <peff@peff.net> | 2011-10-14 17:19:21 -0400 |
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| committer | Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com> | 2011-10-15 21:15:06 -0700 |
| commit | d5570f4d2cb29f3db9f69ff5fcde0a7d54ad2696 (patch) | |
| tree | 9751851f18c19c3a86e8c4e5ae1af9d2fc7da7d7 /Documentation/git-daemon.txt | |
| parent | 703f05ad5835cff92b12c29aecf8d724c8c847e2 (diff) | |
| download | git-d5570f4d2cb29f3db9f69ff5fcde0a7d54ad2696.tar.gz | |
daemon: give friendlier error messages to clients
When the git-daemon is asked about an inaccessible repository, it simply
hangs up the connection without saying anything further. This makes it
hard to distinguish between a repository we cannot access (e.g., due to
typo), and a service or network outage.
Instead, let's print an "ERR" line, which git clients understand since
v1.6.1 (2008-12-24).
Because there is a risk of leaking information about non-exported
repositories, by default all errors simply say "access denied or
repository not exported". Sites which don't have hidden repositories, or
don't care, can pass a flag to turn on more specific messages.
Signed-off-by: Jeff King <peff@peff.net>
Helped-by: Sitaram Chamarty <sitaramc@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
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1 files changed, 10 insertions, 0 deletions
diff --git a/Documentation/git-daemon.txt b/Documentation/git-daemon.txt index 69a1e4af9e..31b28fc29f 100644 --- a/Documentation/git-daemon.txt +++ b/Documentation/git-daemon.txt @@ -161,6 +161,16 @@ the facility of inet daemon to achieve the same before spawning repository configuration. By default, all the services are overridable. +--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. + <directory>:: A directory to add to the whitelist of allowed directories. Unless --strict-paths is specified this will also include subdirectories |