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mention new shell execution behavior in release notes

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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
whitespaces is reported with zero exit status when run with whitespaces is reported with zero exit status when run with
--exit-code, and there is no "diff --git" header for such a change. --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 Updates since v1.6.6
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