Per this post: http://www.toofishes.net/blog/git-smart-http-transport-nginx/ Please consider adding www-servers/nginx to the list of webserver options in the *DEPEND lists for dev-vcs/git
+ 04 Feb 2014; Lars Wendler <polynomial-c@gentoo.org> git-1.8.1.5.ebuild, + git-1.8.1.5-r1.ebuild, git-1.8.2.1.ebuild, git-1.8.4.5.ebuild, + -git-1.8.5.2.ebuild, git-1.8.5.3.ebuild, git-9999.ebuild, + -files/git-1.7.12-git-svn-backport.patch, +files/git-daemon-r1.initd: + Added rewritten init script which no longer contains "need net" (bug + #490446). Added epatch_user (bug #497292). Added www-servers/nginx to the + list of server who work with git-instaweb (bug #491862). Removed reference to + no longer needed patch in remaining ebuilds. Removed old files and ebuilds. +