How to apply about-formatting.sh to appropriate tree files

[John Keeping]

On Sat, Aug 11, 2018 at 01:51:09PM +0200, jean-christophe manciot wrote:
> I could not find a way with v1.2.1 to get any markdown/html files formatted
> correctly when read from the tree.
> I already successfully use the
> "about-filter=/usr/local/lib/cgit/filters/about-formatting.sh" setting in
> /etc/cgitrc, but it only pertains to the about page.
> How can we use this filter for all appropriate tree files?

This is not currently supported.

Some patches were posted a little while ago [1] which add this feature,
but they're not quite ready to be integrated yet.

The best summary of where we want to go is [2].

[1] https://lists.zx2c4.com/pipermail/cgit/2018-June/003978.html
[2] https://lists.zx2c4.com/pipermail/cgit/2018-July/004127.html