# HG changeset patch
# User Matt Harbison <matt_harbison@yahoo.com>
# Date 1612211823 18000
# Node ID 38d76908c01112933ea30d2e6eadf0218c36eb60
# Parent  e933e66153f3d3409c54c39809408cdb46bb42fa
relnotes: elaborate on the side effects of hooks having HGPLAIN=1

Differential Revision: https://phab.mercurial-scm.org/D9943

diff -r e933e66153f3 -r 38d76908c011 relnotes/next
--- a/relnotes/next	Sun Jan 31 19:56:52 2021 -0500
+++ b/relnotes/next	Mon Feb 01 15:37:03 2021 -0500
@@ -37,7 +37,11 @@
    is also supported by "premerge" as
    `merge-tools.<tool>.premerge=keep-mergediff`.
 
- * External hooks are now called with `HGPLAIN=1` preset.
+ * External hooks are now called with `HGPLAIN=1` preset.  This has the side
+   effect of ignoring aliases, templates, revsetaliases, and a few other config
+   options in any `hg` command spawned by the hook.  The previous behavior
+   can be restored by setting HGPLAINEXCEPT appropriately in the parent process.
+   See `hg help environment` for the list of items, and how to set it.
 
  * The `branchmap` cache is updated more intelligently and can be
    significantly faster for repositories with many branches and changesets.