From 6ddf75ae5d0ff55844cd936a1b850ca9ae5abbe5 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Jeff King Date: Sun, 31 Jan 2010 04:14:46 -0500 Subject: [PATCH] mention new shell execution behavior in release notes This is already in the "bells and whistles" section, but it also has a slight chance of breakage, so let's also mention it in the "changed behaviors" section. Signed-off-by: Jeff King Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano --- Documentation/RelNotes-1.7.0.txt | 7 +++++++ 1 file changed, 7 insertions(+) diff --git a/Documentation/RelNotes-1.7.0.txt b/Documentation/RelNotes-1.7.0.txt index 997b026a73..f33e85da94 100644 --- a/Documentation/RelNotes-1.7.0.txt +++ b/Documentation/RelNotes-1.7.0.txt @@ -38,6 +38,13 @@ Notes on behaviour change whitespaces is reported with zero exit status when run with --exit-code, and there is no "diff --git" header for such a change. + * external diff and textconv helpers are now executed using the shell. + This makes them consistent with other programs executed by git, and + allows you to pass command-line parameters to the helpers. Any helper + paths containing spaces or other metacharacters now need to be + shell-quoted. The affected helpers are GIT_EXTERNAL_DIFF in the + environment, and diff.*.command and diff.*.textconv in the config + file. Updates since v1.6.6 --------------------