Gitweb 1.7.5 and Textconv Configuration

All,

I am sorry to bother the list with this question, but I have spent a lot of time searching and have never really found what I was looking for. No one had answers to my question on IRC either. I am running git/gitweb 1.7.5 on shared hosting (Dreamhost, if that matters). I compiled it and followed a tutorial (https://github.com/tmacam/private-git-on-dreamhost) on setting it up in my environment. It worked great, but I have some stuff that is not source code, namely PDF's and ODP/ODT/ODS files I want to see changes from beyond knowing they are binary files. Enter the official wiki page explaining textconv (https://git.wiki.kernel.org/index.php/GitTips#How_to_use_git_to_track_OpenDocument_.28OpenOffice.2C_Koffice.29_files.3F).

So, I tried different variations of this, specifically for repos. Now, I have tried it globally as that was tedious and it was not working anyway. That works some of the time if I try commands over the console (git log -p for quick testing), but never in Gitweb. It continues to only say they are differing binary files. Does Gitweb 1.7.5 support the use of this? Is there something special I must do? Below is my current config:

[dreamhost-server]$ git config --list --global diff.odf.textconv=odt2txt diff.odf.binary=false diff.pdf.textconv=pdftotext diff.pdf.binary=false core.attributesfile=~/.gitattributes [dreamhost-server]$ more ~/.gitattributes *.odf diff=odf *.odt diff=odf *.odp diff=odf *.pdf diff=pdf [jabbah]$ more ~/repos/gitweb_config.perl # where is the git binary? $GIT = "/home/dreamhost_account/opt/bin/git"; # where are our git project repositories? $projectroot = $ENV{'GIT_PROJECT_ROOT'}; # what do we call our projects in the gitweb UI? $home_link_str = "~"; # where are the files we need for gitweb to display? @stylesheets = ("gitweb.css"); $logo = "git-logo.png"; $favicon = "/favicon.png"; # what do we call this site? $site_name = "my personal git repos";

The diff.<driver>.binary addition is new. I tried with or without them, hoping mention of this on a mailing list thread from a while back might help. It was all in vain. I also tried fiddling with $diff_opts for Gitweb after scanning the man page for git-diff, but I am not sure if there is anything helpful I missed. I no this is a newbish question, I am sure, so I apologize in advance.

Best, _AJS