From: Jeff King <peff@peff.net>
Date: Sat, 02 Jul 2011 21:10:28 GMT
Subject: Re: Gitweb 1.7.5 and Textconv Configuration
Message-ID: <20110702211027.GA16294@sigill.intra.peff.net>
In-Reply-To: <m3aacw5t5x.fsf@localhost.localdomain>

On Sat, Jul 02, 2011 at 01:23:38PM -0700, Jakub Narebski wrote:

> > Ah, I see. That seems like a reasonable solution. Are you sure that the
> > user running gitweb as a CGI is the same as the user you log in as? That
> > is, are you sure that ~/.gitconfig is being parsed when it is called as
> > a CGI, and it's not looking in ~www/.gitconfig or something?
> > 
> > It would depend how your hosting is set up.
> 
> Well, there is also system wide $(prefix)/etc/gitconfig file...

Good point. Though if he's on shared hosting, that might not be an
option.

> The question is if --textconv works with git-diff-tree, because that
> is what gitweb uses.

It does. It just defaults to "--no-textconv", but you can enable it on
the command-line.

-Peff