From: Matthieu Moy <matthieu.moy@imag.fr>
Date: Mon, 06 Apr 2009 17:37:29 GMT
Subject: Re: git diff bug?
Message-ID: <vpqeiw53cpy.fsf@bauges.imag.fr>
In-Reply-To: <20090406155303.GA3275@sigill.intra.peff.net>

Jeff King <peff@peff.net> writes:

> But the latter two lines are about preference: "here is how _I_ would
> like to generate diffs for el files".

... and they are commands to be executed. If they were in the
repository, and propagated with clone, then doing

git clone git://some.git/repo
cd repo
git diff

would execute arbitrary commands, which wouldn't be acceptable for
security reasons.

-- 
Matthieu