@@ -25,7 +25,7 @@ Notes on behaviour change
2525 configured that variable.
2626
2727 * "git status" is not "git commit --dry-run" anymore. This change does
28- not affect you if you run the command without pathspec .
28+ not affect you if you run the command without argument .
2929
3030 * "git diff" traditionally treated various "ignore whitespace" options
3131 only as a way to filter the patch output. "git diff --exit-code -b"
@@ -38,6 +38,13 @@ Notes on behaviour change
3838 whitespaces is reported with zero exit status when run with
3939 --exit-code, and there is no "diff --git" header for such a change.
4040
41+ * external diff and textconv helpers are now executed using the shell.
42+ This makes them consistent with other programs executed by git, and
43+ allows you to pass command-line parameters to the helpers. Any helper
44+ paths containing spaces or other metacharacters now need to be
45+ shell-quoted. The affected helpers are GIT_EXTERNAL_DIFF in the
46+ environment, and diff.*.command and diff.*.textconv in the config
47+ file.
4148
4249Updates since v1.6.6
4350--------------------
@@ -175,6 +182,9 @@ Updates since v1.6.6
175182
176183 * Many more commands are now built-in.
177184
185+ * THREADED_DELTA_SEARCH is no more. If you build with threads, delta
186+ compression will always take advantage of it.
187+
178188Fixes since v1.6.6
179189------------------
180190
@@ -198,7 +208,6 @@ release, unless otherwise noted.
198208
199209--
200210exec >/var/tmp/1
201- O=v1.7.0-rc0-48-gdace5dd
202- O=v1.7.0-rc0-67-gb10b918
211+ O=v1.7.0-rc1-6-g2ee8c5b
203212echo O=$(git describe master)
204213git shortlog --no-merges $O..master ^maint
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