From: Jeff King <peff@peff.net>
Date: Sat, 02 Jul 2011 10:44:37 GMT
Subject: Re: Gitweb 1.7.5 and Textconv Configuration
Message-ID: <20110702104437.GA10538@sigill.intra.peff.net>
In-Reply-To: <20110702104313.GA10245@sigill.intra.peff.net>

On Sat, Jul 02, 2011 at 06:43:13AM -0400, Jeff King wrote:

> 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