Matthieu Moy <Matthieu.Moy@xxxxxxx> writes: > Jeff King <peff@xxxxxxxx> 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. Other configuration variables have such security implications, but diff hunk header bit doesn't. You are a bit overly cautious in this particular case. -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe git" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html