{"thread":{"id":"34098","subject":"[ANNOUNCE] Git v1.8.3.1","startedAt":"2013-06-10T21:03:49Z","lastAt":"2013-06-10T21:03:49Z","messageCount":1,"participants":["Junio C Hamano"],"isPatch":false,"patchVersion":null,"patchTotal":null},"messages":[{"id":"220380","messageId":"7vy5ahekzu.fsf@alter.siamese.dyndns.org","threadId":"34098","inReplyTo":null,"subject":"[ANNOUNCE] Git v1.8.3.1","fromName":"Junio C Hamano","fromEmail":"gitster@pobox.com","sentAt":"2013-06-10T21:03:49Z","receivedAt":"2013-06-10T21:03:49Z","isPatch":false,"sender":{"key":"gitster@pobox.com","avatar":"https://avatars.githubusercontent.com/u/54884?v=4"},"body":"The latest maintenance release Git v1.8.3.1 is now available at the\nusual places.\n\nThis is primarily to push out fixes to two regressions that seem to\naffect many people, namely, the \".gitignore !directory\" bug and the\n\"daemon cannot read from $HOME owned by root\" bug.\n\nThe release tarballs are found at:\n\n    http://code.google.com/p/git-core/downloads/list\n\nand their SHA-1 checksums are:\n\n32562a231fe4422bc033bf872fffa61f41ee2669  git-1.8.3.1.tar.gz\n94d48f6f8684aec851124e7d0b835b338a9187ad  git-htmldocs-1.8.3.1.tar.gz\n0cd759579d4bd75f1cf1ba073b1ab96c49390426  git-manpages-1.8.3.1.tar.gz\n\nThe following public repositories all have a copy of the v1.8.3.1\ntag and the maint branch that the tag points at:\n\n  url = https://kernel.googlesource.com/pub/scm/git/git\n  url = git://repo.or.cz/alt-git.git\n  url = https://code.google.com/p/git-core/\n  url = git://git.sourceforge.jp/gitroot/git-core/git.git\n  url = git://git-core.git.sourceforge.net/gitroot/git-core/git-core\n  url = https://github.com/gitster/git\n\nAlso, http://www.kernel.org/pub/software/scm/git/ has copies of the\nrelease tarballs.\n\nGit v1.8.3.1 Release Notes\n========================\n\nFixes since v1.8.3\n------------------\n\n * When $HOME is misconfigured to point at an unreadable directory, we\n   used to complain and die. The check has been loosened.\n\n * Handling of negative exclude pattern for directories \"!dir\" was\n   broken in the update to v1.8.3.\n\nAlso contains a handful of trivial code clean-ups, documentation\nupdates, updates to the test suite, etc.\n"}]}