git-http-multi-backend

git-http-multi-backend

Git "smart HTTP" protocol server.

git-http-backend, a server side implementation of Git over HTTP is a simple CGI program to serve git repositories. CGI itself doesn't handle multiple simultaneous requests and configuring Nginx + git-http-backend to serve multiple clients requires setting up a pool of FastCGI processes, which requires multiple tools like fcgiwrap, spawn-fcgi and multiwatch (to make sure fcgiwrap workers respawn).

git-http-multi-backend solves this problem in a simple way by starting a regular HTTP server which for each incoming request spawns a new git-http-backend process and forwards its response to the client.

Due to the fact that Go's net/http server handles every request in each own goroutine it's possible to handle large number of concurrent clones/pushes.

Limiting the number of simultaneous connections is not in the scope of this tool and can be easily achieved by configuring Nginx or Haproxy to do this task.

Installation

Currently you need Go development environment to build git-http-multi-backend.

The following command will fetch the package and build the binary at $GOPATH/bin/git-http-multi-backend:

go get gitorious.org/gitorious/git-http-multi-backend

Usage

Starting

Usage:

git-http-multi-backend [options]

Options:

• -r <repos-dir> - Directory containing git repositories, defaults to "."
• -c <backend-command> - CGI binary to execute, defaults to "git http-backend"
• -l <[addr]:port> - Address/port to listen on, defaults to 127.0.0.1:80

Example:

git-http-multi-backend -r /var/git/repositories

License

git-http-multi-backend is free software licensed under the GNU Affero General Public License. git-http-multi-backend is developed as part of the Gitorious project.