[PATCH 4/6] RelNotes: mention that PCRE v2 exposes the same syntax

From: Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason <avarab@gmail.com>
Date: Jul 20, 2017, 14:19 UTC
Message-ID: <20170720141927.18274-5-avarab@gmail.com>
In-Reply-To: <20170720141927.18274-1-avarab@gmail.com>

For someone not familiar with PCRE or having read its own documentation this isn't obvious, let's explicitly mention it so package maintainers won't fear upgrading least they break things for their users.

Signed-off-by: Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason <avarab@gmail.com>
---
 Documentation/RelNotes/2.14.0.txt | 3 +++
 1 file changed, 3 insertions(+)

diff --git a/Documentation/RelNotes/2.14.0.txt b/Documentation/RelNotes/2.14.0.txt
index 7ed93bca37..0e363f2af3 100644
--- a/Documentation/RelNotes/2.14.0.txt
+++ b/Documentation/RelNotes/2.14.0.txt
@@ -28,6 +28,9 @@ Backward compatibility notes and other notable changes.
    upstream PCRE maintainer has abandoned v1 maintenance for all but
    the most critical bug fixes, use of v2 is recommended.
 
+   Version v2 of the library is fully backwards compatible with the
+   Perl-compatible regular expression syntax exposed by git (sans a
+   few obscure bugfixes).
 
 Updates since v2.13
 -------------------

-- 
2.13.2.932.g7449e964c