How to start git daemon on Windows

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A-Dubb picture A-Dubb · Mar 3, 2011 · Viewed 25.4k times · Source

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.

Answer

patthoyts picture patthoyts · Mar 4, 2011

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

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