1.8.1.6

Git 1.8.1.6 Release Notes =========================

Fixes since v1.8.1.5 --------------------

• An earlier change to the attribute system introduced at v1.8.1.2 by mistake stopped a pattern "dir" (without trailing slash) from matching a directory "dir" (it only wanted to allow pattern "dir/" to also match).

• The code to keep track of what directory names are known to Git on platforms with case insensitive filesystems can get confused upon a hash collision between these pathnames and looped forever.

• When the "--prefix" option is used to "checkout-index", the code did not pick the correct output filter based on the attribute setting.

• Annotated tags outside refs/tags/ hierarchy were not advertised correctly to the ls-remote and fetch with recent version of Git.

• The logic used by "git diff -M --stat" to shorten the names of files before and after a rename did not work correctly when the common prefix and suffix between the two filenames overlapped.

• "git update-index -h" did not do the usual "-h(elp)" thing.

• perl/Git.pm::cat_blob slurped everything in core only to write it out to a file descriptor, which was not a very smart thing to do.

• The SSL peer verification done by "git imap-send" did not ask for Server Name Indication (RFC 4366), failing to connect SSL/TLS sites that serve multiple hostnames on a single IP.

• "git bundle verify" did not say "records a complete history" for a bundle that does not have any prerequisites.

Also contains various documentation fixes.