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Re: gitweb: removal of old style blobdiff support breaks ikiwiki

From
Jeff King <peff@peff.net>
Date
Jan 6, 2009, 00:25 UTC
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<20090106002520.GA29000@coredump.intra.peff.net>
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<20090105235418.GA9373@gnu.kitenet.net>
On Mon, Jan 05, 2009 at 06:54:18PM -0500, Joey Hess wrote:
> I wonder if it wouldn't be better to make gitweb continue to support the
> old urls, using diff-tree instead of the porcelain?

It can't; there is currently no interface for diffing two arbitrary blobs except "git diff". The simplest fix to retain functionality but plug the hole is to pass --no-ext-diff to all versions, and --no-textconv to versions which have textconv (i.e., 1.6.1 and later). IIRC, there is a problem with --no-ext-diff in some versions, so that fix might have to be backported, too.

-Peff
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  1. Joey HessJan 5, 2009
  2. Jeff KingJan 6, 2009

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