Re: git diff bug?

Matthieu Moy [off-list ref] writes:

Jeff King [off-list ref] writes:

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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.