Git Aliases - a rarely used gem of Git.
A cool example: Launch a one-off git server from any local repository.
With the alias it is possible to serve a local GIT_HOST:
$ git serve
[50248] Ready to rumble
Once your Git host is Ready to rumble you can access the ad-hoc repository from other hosts in the network:
$ git clone git://${GIT_HOST}/ example
Cloning into 'example'...
remote: Counting objects: 319, done.
remote: Compressing objects: 100% (195/195), done.
remote: Total 319 (delta 116), reused 155 (delta 41)
Receiving objects: 100% (319/319), 124.14 KiB | 0 bytes/s, done.
Resolving deltas: 100% (116/116), done.
Checking connectivity... done.
Git it done.
Just for the record - I created the alias like this:
git config --global alias.serve '!git daemon --verbose --export-all --base-path=.git --reuseaddr --strict-paths .git/'
BONUS: Share with write access into current branch.
$ git config --global alias.serve-rw '!git daemon --verbose --export-all --base-path=.git --reuseaddr --strict-paths --enable=receive-pack .git/'
$ git config receive.denyCurrentBranch ignore