closes #9587

[arvados.git] / services / arv-git-httpd / usage.go

diff --git a/services/arv-git-httpd/usage.go b/services/arv-git-httpd/usage.go
index e35593688fff8b705a3b3477eccedf42f205d69d..1fb25b92f2f17286c576203f609e20ec82f3b300 100644 (file)
--- a/services/arv-git-httpd/usage.go
+++ b/services/arv-git-httpd/usage.go
@@ -1,3 +1,7 @@
+// arvados-git-httpd provides authenticated access to Arvados-hosted
+// git repositories.
+//
+// See http://doc.arvados.org/install/install-arv-git-httpd.html.
 package main
 
 import (
@@ -51,6 +55,14 @@ GitCommand:
     request will execute this program with the single argument
     "http-backend".
 
+GitoliteHome:
+
+    Path to Gitolite's home directory. If a non-empty path is given,
+    the CGI environment will be set up to support the use of
+    gitolite-shell as a GitCommand: for example, if GitoliteHome is
+    "/gh", then the CGI environment will have GITOLITE_HTTP_HOME=/gh,
+    PATH=$PATH:/gh/bin, and GL_BYPASS_ACCESS_CHECKS=1.
+
 Listen:
 
     Local port to listen on. Can be "address:port" or ":port", where