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| author | Jeff King <peff@peff.net> | 2010-01-31 04:14:46 -0500 |
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| committer | Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com> | 2010-01-31 10:27:56 -0800 |
| commit | 6ddf75ae5d0ff55844cd936a1b850ca9ae5abbe5 (patch) | |
| tree | 9db22c6f6b1c3319cd694d69fa257d326187787e /Documentation | |
| parent | de7a79608c94f7319b55060741d6be98826deccb (diff) | |
| download | git-6ddf75ae5d0ff55844cd936a1b850ca9ae5abbe5.tar.gz git-6ddf75ae5d0ff55844cd936a1b850ca9ae5abbe5.tar.xz | |
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 <peff@peff.net>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Diffstat (limited to 'Documentation')
| -rw-r--r-- | Documentation/RelNotes-1.7.0.txt | 7 |
1 files changed, 7 insertions, 0 deletions
diff --git a/Documentation/RelNotes-1.7.0.txt b/Documentation/RelNotes-1.7.0.txt index 997b026a7..f33e85da9 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 -------------------- |