Junio C Hamano <gitster@xxxxxxxxx> writes: > 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. Oops, right, I was thinking of other parameters in the same section of the config file. Thanks for correcting. -- Matthieu -- 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