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>
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@@ -38,6 +38,13 @@ Notes on behaviour change
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whitespaces is reported with zero exit status when run with
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--exit-code, and there is no "diff --git" header for such a change.
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+ * external diff and textconv helpers are now executed using the shell.
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+ This makes them consistent with other programs executed by git, and
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+ allows you to pass command-line parameters to the helpers. Any helper
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+ paths containing spaces or other metacharacters now need to be
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+ shell-quoted. The affected helpers are GIT_EXTERNAL_DIFF in the
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+ environment, and diff.*.command and diff.*.textconv in the config
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+ file.
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Updates since v1.6.6
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