2.3.8

Git v2.3.8 Release Notes ========================

Fixes since v2.3.7 ------------------

• The usual "git diff" when seeing a file turning into a directory showed a patchset to remove the file and create all files in the directory, but "git diff --no-index" simply refused to work. Also, when asked to compare a file and a directory, imitate POSIX "diff" and compare the file with the file with the same name in the directory, instead of refusing to run.

• The default $HOME/.gitconfig file created upon "git config --global" that edits it had incorrectly spelled user.name and user.email entries in it.

• "git commit --date=now" or anything that relies on approxidate lost the daylight-saving-time offset.

Also contains typofixes, documentation updates and trivial code clean-ups.