Extensible Git Daemon (gitexd) is an event-driven, customizable and extensible solution developed in Python for the purpose of a bachelor thesis at the University of Antwerp. It provides users with a basic daemon that exposes repositories through the Secure Shell and the Hypertext Transport Transfer Protocol.

The logic that the daemon uses to

• route requested repositories to the local file system,
• authenticate users,
• authorize users,
• handle errors,
• and to invoke everything above

is customizable by the user of the daemon and thus allows for pretty advanced uses.

If you are looking for an implementation example, see the Drupal.org implementation.

• Python 2.7
• Twisted 12.0.0

Starting the daemon can be done as simply as the following code snippet:

config = ConfigParser.ConfigParser()
config.readfp(open(‘gitexd.cfg’))

pluginPackages = {
    IAuth: gitexd.plugins,
    IRepositoryRouter: gitexd.plugins
}

factory = Factory(config, pluginPackages)

ssh = reactor.listenTCP(22, factory.createSSHFactory())
http = reactor.listenTCP(80, factory.createHTTPFactory())

See the documentation for more information.