On Sun, Jan 31, 2010 at 12:03:10AM -0800, Junio C Hamano wrote:
> Perhaps. A patch with nice description, please?
How about this? We could also drop it from the "bells and whistles"
section; I don't have a preference.
-- >8 --
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 <peff@xxxxxxxx>
---
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 997b026..f33e85d 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
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1.7.0.rc1.8.g1a26
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