From: Jeff King <peff@peff.net>
Date: Tue, 06 Jan 2009 00:25:20 GMT
Subject: Re: gitweb: removal of old style blobdiff support breaks ikiwiki
Message-ID: <20090106002520.GA29000@coredump.intra.peff.net>
In-Reply-To: <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