Subject: Prevalence of $prevent_xss

From: Matt McCutchen <[email-masked]>
Date: Sat, 04 Jun 2011 17:15:01 -0400

On Sat, 2011-06-04 at 10:43 +0200, Jakub Narebski wrote:
> The fact that it this buglet was present for so long, since its
> introduction by Matt McCutchen in 7e1100e (gitweb: add $prevent_xss
> option to prevent XSS by repository content, 2009-02-07) without
> complaint shows that not many people are using this feature...

Yes.  Well, I'm still using it, and I found a few mentions on the web:

https://android.git.kernel.org/?p=tools/gerrit.git;a=blob;f=gerrit-httpd/src/main/java/com/google/gerrit/httpd/gitweb/GitWebServlet.java;h=947fbb423f1f8cf46db9876f4b80c600cdf9ee41;hb=HEAD#l193
http://ao2.it/wiki/How_to_setup_a_GIT_server_with_gitosis_and_gitweb
http://www.digitalfoo.net/posts/2009/11/git,_gitosis,_gitweb_on_FreeBSD/

And there are probably others who did their own custom things (GitHub?)
before the feature was added upstream.

-- 
Matt