From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Jeff King Subject: Re: [ANNOUNCE] Git 1.7.0.rc1 Date: Sun, 31 Jan 2010 04:14:46 -0500 Message-ID: <20100131091446.GA25704@coredump.intra.peff.net> References: <7vaavvi4r5.fsf@alter.siamese.dyndns.org> <20100131073208.GA15268@coredump.intra.peff.net> <7v8wbeg0qp.fsf@alter.siamese.dyndns.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8 Cc: git@vger.kernel.org To: Junio C Hamano X-From: git-owner@vger.kernel.org Sun Jan 31 10:14:55 2010 Return-path: Envelope-to: gcvg-git-2@lo.gmane.org Received: from vger.kernel.org ([209.132.180.67]) by lo.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1NbVtP-0005If-1P for gcvg-git-2@lo.gmane.org; Sun, 31 Jan 2010 10:14:55 +0100 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1751532Ab0AaJOt (ORCPT ); Sun, 31 Jan 2010 04:14:49 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1751484Ab0AaJOt (ORCPT ); Sun, 31 Jan 2010 04:14:49 -0500 Received: from peff.net ([208.65.91.99]:49728 "EHLO peff.net" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1751384Ab0AaJOs (ORCPT ); Sun, 31 Jan 2010 04:14:48 -0500 Received: (qmail 1836 invoked by uid 107); 31 Jan 2010 09:14:51 -0000 Received: from coredump.intra.peff.net (HELO coredump.intra.peff.net) (10.0.0.2) by peff.net (qpsmtpd/0.40) with (AES128-SHA encrypted) SMTP; Sun, 31 Jan 2010 04:14:51 -0500 Received: by coredump.intra.peff.net (sSMTP sendmail emulation); Sun, 31 Jan 2010 04:14:46 -0500 Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <7v8wbeg0qp.fsf@alter.siamese.dyndns.org> Sender: git-owner@vger.kernel.org Precedence: bulk List-ID: X-Mailing-List: git@vger.kernel.org Archived-At: 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 --- 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 -------------------- -- 1.7.0.rc1.8.g1a26