In my [[gitweb]] post, I explain how to setup `git daemon` to serve
`git://` requests under [[Nginx]] on [[Gentoo]].  This post talks
about a different situation, where you want to toss up a Git daemon
for collaboration on your LAN.  This is useful when you're teaching
Git to a room full of LAN-sharing students, and you don't want to
bother setting up public repositories more permanently.

Say you have a repository that you want to serve:

    $ mkdir -p ~/src/my-project
    $ cd ~/src/my-project
    $ git init
    $ …hack hack hack…

Fire up the daemon (probably in another terminal so you can keep
hacking in your original terminal) with:

    $ cd ~/src
    $ git daemon --export-all --base-path=. --verbose ./my-project

Then you can clone with:

    $ git clone git://192.168.1.2/my-project

replacing `192.168.1.2` with your public IP address (e.g. from `ip
addr show scope global`).

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