I have set git daemon on my server to have my personal git repo following the official documentation. Altho it seems that the --base-path does not work as intended, or as specified in the description.

I want to be able to clone a repo as: git clone [email protected]:path/to/repo.git without having to specify git clone [email protected]:/where/git/user/home/is/path/to/repo.git

My git daemon service is as follow:

/usr/bin/git daemon --export-all --reuseaddr --base-path=/home/git/data/ /home/git/data/

Then I created a base repo in /home/git/data/gns/ (gns is like a 'group' where I will have few repos):

git init --bare gns/api.git

Locally when I try to clone it I have an error:

┌──(kali㉿kali)-[~]
└─$ git clone [email protected]:gns/api.git     
Cloning into 'api'...
Enter passphrase for key '/home/kali/.ssh/id_ed25519': 
fatal: 'gns/api.git' does not appear to be a git repository
fatal: Could not read from remote repository.

Please make sure you have the correct access rights
and the repository exists.

But where it's interesting is that this one works (?!):

┌──(kali㉿kali)-[~]
└─$ git clone [email protected]:data/gns/api.git
Cloning into 'api'...
Enter passphrase for key '/home/kali/.ssh/id_ed25519': 
warning: You appear to have cloned an empty repository.

Any idea what is going on? Why with data/ it works? And what do I miss to make it correctly?

thanks

CodePudding user response：

From what I know of the Git daemon, this is for serving repositories using the “Git” protocol.

Meaning URLs starting with git://...

But you are not using such URLs, you are using SSH URLs, connecting to myserver.com with the remote user git, in which home (/home/git) there is a data/gns/api.git folder.

That would mean the daemon would not be used with such URLs.