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Re: Gitweb 1.7.5 and Textconv Configuration

From
Jeff King <peff@peff.net>
Date
Jul 2, 2011, 10:44 UTC
Message-ID
<20110702104437.GA10538@sigill.intra.peff.net>
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<20110702104313.GA10245@sigill.intra.peff.net>
On Sat, Jul 02, 2011 at 06:43:13AM -0400, Jeff King wrote:
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> The default gitweb configuration doesn't allow textconv (or external
> diff) for security reasons; it would mean repo owners could execute
> arbitrary commands as the gitweb user.
> 
> If that's OK for your site, you can probably enable it with:
> 
>   push @diff_opts, '--allow-textconv';

Oops, this option is just called "--textconv". I got it confused with the flag in the code, which is ALLOW_TEXTCONV.

-Peff
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  12. Jakub NarebskiJul 6, 2011
  13. docs: document --textconv diff optionJeff King, Jul 6, 2011

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