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# gitlab-workhorse
gitlab-workhorse was designed to unload Git HTTP traffic from
the GitLab Rails app (Unicorn) to a separate daemon. It also serves
'git archive' downloads for GitLab. All authentication and
authorization logic is still handled by the GitLab Rails app.
Gitlab-workhorse is a smart reverse proxy for GitLab. It handles
"large" HTTP requests such as file downloads, file uploads, Git
push/pull and Git archive downloads.
Architecture: Git client -> NGINX -> gitlab-workhorse (makes
auth request to GitLab Rails app) -> git-upload-pack
## Usage
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Authentication/authorization backend (default "http://localhost:8080")
-authSocket string
Optional: Unix domain socket to dial authBackend at
-developmentMode
Allow to serve assets from Rails app
-documentRoot string
Path to static files content (default "public")
-listenAddr string
Listen address for HTTP server (default "localhost:8181")
-listenNetwork string
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Umask for Unix socket, default: 022 (default 18)
-pprofListenAddr string
pprof listening address, e.g. 'localhost:6060'
-proxyHeadersTimeout duration
How long to wait for response headers when proxying the request (default 1m0s)
-relativeURLRoot string
GitLab relative URL root (default "/")
-version
Print version and exit
```
gitlab-workhorse allows Git HTTP clients to push and pull to
and from Git repositories. Each incoming request is first replayed
(with an empty request body) to an external authentication/authorization
HTTP server: the 'auth backend'. The auth backend is expected to
be a GitLab Unicorn process. The 'auth response' is a JSON message
which tells gitlab-workhorse the path of the Git repository
to read from/write to.
The 'auth backend' refers to the GitLab Rails applicatoin. The name is a holdover from when gitlab-workhorse only handled Git push/pull over HTTP.
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itlab-workhorse can listen on either a TCP or a Unix domain socket. It
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itlab-workhorse can listen on either a TCP or a Unix domain socket. It
can also open a second listening TCP listening socket with the Go
[
net/http/pprof profiler server
](
http://golang.org/pkg/net/http/pprof/
)
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