Re: Gitweb 1.7.5 and Textconv Configuration

[Jakub Narebski <jnareb@gmail.com>]

Jeff King <peff@peff.net> writes:
> On Sat, Jul 02, 2011 at 10:18:55PM +0300, Al Haraka wrote:
> 
> > > which will make the repository-wide non-version-controlled gitattributes
> > > the same as the last committed version. The problem is that it won't be
> > > automatically updated as you commit and push changes to .gitattributes.
> > 
> > I thought my plan was to try and avoid this by using the
> > core.attributesfile directive, forcing this stuff to operate system
> > (well, account, besides the point here) wide on all repos with
> > specifying a .gitattributes (or, since it base bare, as you pointed
> > out yourself, $GIT_REPO_DIR/info/attributes) every single time.  Did I
> > misunderstand the mailing list thread that mentioned this a while
> > back?
> 
> 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...
 
> > This is the reason I went through the trouble of compiling an updated
> > version in my account (as opposed to the installed version on the
> > Dreamhost box; they are stuck at version 1.7.1.1; I saw this mentioned
> > on a thread somewhere and wanted to get the "latest" (well latest
> > stable version) to avoid this kind of problem?  Was that the right
> > thing to do?  Will it even work in this case?  I get the feeling from
> > your response I was expecting a lot with RTFM'ing more.
> 
> It sounds like it should work to me, but I've not tested it (nor do I
> even run gitweb; I just have an interest in textconv).

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

BTW. we could use --textconv in 'blob' and 'blame' views (it is
documented that git-cat-file supports --textconv, and it is checked in
git testsuite but not documented that git-blame supports --textconv).
But it would require changes to gitweb.


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Jakub Narebski
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