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From: Jakub Narebski <jnareb@gmail.com>
To: Jeff King <peff@peff.net>
Cc: Al Haraka <alharaka@gmail.com>, git@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: Gitweb 1.7.5 and Textconv Configuration
Date: Sat, 2 Jul 2011 23:22:23 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <201107022322.24832.jnareb@gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20110702211027.GA16294@sigill.intra.peff.net>

On Sat, 2 Jul 2011, Jeff King wrote:
> 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.

Though on the other hand if he is compiling git himself, $prefix can
be $HOME...

> > 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.

Undocumented.

  $ git grep -e --textconv Documentation/
  Documentation/RelNotes/1.6.3.3.txt: * "git diff --textconv" leaked memory badly when the tex
  Documentation/git-cat-file.txt:'git cat-file' (-t | -s | -e | -p | <type> | --textconv ) <ob
  Documentation/git-cat-file.txt:object type, or '-s' is used to find the object size, or '--t
  Documentation/git-cat-file.txt:--textconv::

(on current 'master').

-- 
Jakub Narebski
Poland

  reply	other threads:[~2011-07-02 21:22 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 13+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2011-07-02  9:50 Gitweb 1.7.5 and Textconv Configuration Al Haraka
2011-07-02 10:43 ` Jeff King
2011-07-02 10:44   ` Jeff King
2011-07-02 11:14     ` Al Haraka
2011-07-02 18:57       ` Jeff King
2011-07-02 19:18         ` Al Haraka
2011-07-02 19:57           ` Jeff King
2011-07-02 20:23             ` Jakub Narebski
2011-07-02 21:10               ` Jeff King
2011-07-02 21:22                 ` Jakub Narebski [this message]
2011-07-02 21:10               ` Al Haraka
2011-07-06 13:59   ` Jakub Narebski
2011-07-06 15:13     ` [PATCH] docs: document --textconv diff option Jeff King

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