1.8.1.3

Git 1.8.1.3 Release Notes =========================

Fixes since v1.8.1.2 --------------------

• The attribute mechanism didn’t allow limiting attributes to be applied to only a single directory itself with "path/" like the exclude mechanism does. The fix for this in 1.8.1.2 had performance degradations.

• Command line completion code was inadvertently made incompatible with older versions of bash by using a newer array notation.

• Scripts to test bash completion was inherently flaky as it was affected by whatever random things the user may have on $PATH.

• A fix was added to the build procedure to work around buggy versions of ccache broke the auto-generation of dependencies, which unfortunately is still relevant because some people use ancient distros.

• We used to stuff "user@" and then append what we read from /etc/mailname to come up with a default e-mail ident, but a bug lost the "user@" part.

• "git am" did not parse datestamp correctly from Hg generated patch, when it is run in a locale outside C (or en).

• Attempt to "branch --edit-description" an existing branch, while being on a detached HEAD, errored out.

• "git cherry-pick" did not replay a root commit to an unborn branch.

• We forgot to close the file descriptor reading from "gpg" output, killing "git log --show-signature" on a long history.

• "git rebase --preserve-merges" lost empty merges in recent versions of Git.

• Rebasing the history of superproject with change in the submodule has been broken since v1.7.12.

• A failure to push due to non-ff while on an unborn branch dereferenced a NULL pointer when showing an error message.

Also contains various documentation fixes.