Extended (Git) diff output for changeset diffs in Hgweb?

[Matt Mackall]

On Fri, 2014-06-20 at 11:22 -0700, Lawrence Stewart wrote:
> On 06/20/14 05:19, Stephen Lee wrote:
> > On 20 Jun 2014 12:35, "Lawrence Stewart" <lstewart at room52.net
> > <mailto:lstewart at room52.net>> wrote:
> > 
> >     Hi all,
> > 
> >     Is there a way to make Hgweb use extended diff format when displaying
> >     changeset diffs? Changesets which change file permissions for example
> >     show up as empty when viewed in Hgweb, but "diff -g -r <rev_hash>" on
> >     the command line shows the permissions change.
> > 
> >     I tried various combinations to no avail of adding the following to the
> >      hgweb.conf and repo's hgrc files:
> > 
> >     [diff]
> >     git = True
> > 
> > 
> > 
> > I had a patch to do this... I might be able to drag it out...
> 
> Ah, I obviously assumed this was functionality that existed but I was
> unable to figure out how to enable.

The above DOES work, I've just confirmed it. However, there's a 99%
chance that you've fallen afoul of our security checks:

http://mercurial.selenic.com/wiki/Trust

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