[ANNOUNCE] Git v1.8.0.1

The latest maintenance release Git v1.8.0.1 is now available at the usual places.

The release tarballs are found at:

    http://code.google.com/p/git-core/downloads/list

and their SHA-1 checksums are:

4e7492f7558f3ba2a450c43efa7de3b0b1adc6c1 git-1.8.0.1.tar.gz 6c0e64d53a8543447f595e3bac4966ba9257e783 git-htmldocs-1.8.0.1.tar.gz cb26eea4ebe53b41cbc5c5f430499f7d76605414 git-manpages-1.8.0.1.tar.gz

Also the following public repositories all have a copy of the v1.8.0.1 tag and the maint branch that the tag points at:

  url = git://repo.or.cz/alt-git.git
  url = https://code.google.com/p/git-core/
  url = git://git.sourceforge.jp/gitroot/git-core/git.git
  url = git://git-core.git.sourceforge.net/gitroot/git-core/git-core
  url = https://github.com/gitster/git

Git v1.8.0.1 Release Notes ==========================

Fixes since v1.8.0 ------------------

 * The configuration parser had an unnecessary hardcoded limit on
   variable names that was not checked consistently.

 * The "say" function in the test scaffolding incorrectly allowed
   "echo" to interpret "\a" as if it were a C-string asking for a
   BEL output.

 * "git mergetool" feeds /dev/null as a common ancestor when dealing
   with an add/add conflict, but p4merge backend cannot handle
   it. Work it around by passing a temporary empty file.

 * "git log -F -E --grep='<ere>'" failed to use the given <ere>
   pattern as extended regular expression, and instead looked for the
   string literally.

 * "git grep -e pattern <tree>" asked the attribute system to read
   "<tree>:.gitattributes" file in the working tree, which was
   nonsense.

 * A symbolic ref refs/heads/SYM was not correctly removed with "git
   branch -d SYM"; the command removed the ref pointed by SYM
   instead.

 * Earlier we fixed documentation to hyphenate "remote-tracking branch"
   to clarify that these are not a remote entity, but unhyphenated
   spelling snuck in to a few places since then.

 * "git pull --rebase" run while the HEAD is detached tried to find
   the upstream branch of the detached HEAD (which by definition
   does not exist) and emitted unnecessary error messages.

 * The refs/replace hierarchy was not mentioned in the
   repository-layout docs.

 * Sometimes curl_multi_timeout() function suggested a wrong timeout
   value when there is no file descriptors to wait on and the http
   transport ended up sleeping for minutes in select(2) system call.
   A workaround has been added for this.

 * Various rfc2047 quoting issues around a non-ASCII name on the
   From: line in the output from format-patch have been corrected.

 * "git diff -G<pattern>" did not honor textconv filter when looking
   for changes.

 * Bash completion script (in contrib/) did not correctly complete a
   lazy "git checkout $name_of_remote_tracking_branch_that_is_unique"
   command line.

 * RSS feed from "gitweb" had a xss hole in its title output.

 * "git config --path $key" segfaulted on "[section] key" (a boolean
   "true" spelled without "=", not "[section] key = true").

 * "git checkout -b foo" while on an unborn branch did not say
   "Switched to a new branch 'foo'" like other cases.

Also contains other minor fixes and documentation updates.

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Changes since v1.8.0 are as follows:

Andreas Schwab (1):
      commit: fixup misplacement of --no-post-rewrite description

Ben Walton (1):
      Remove the hard coded length limit on variable names in config files

Carlos Martín Nieto (1):
      config: don't segfault when given --path with a missing value

David Aguilar (1):
      mergetools/p4merge: Handle "/dev/null"

Jan H. Schönherr (7):
      utf8: fix off-by-one wrapping of text
      format-patch: do not wrap non-rfc2047 headers too early
      format-patch: do not wrap rfc2047 encoded headers too late
      format-patch: introduce helper function last_line_length()
      format-patch: make rfc2047 encoding more strict
      format-patch: fix rfc2047 address encoding with respect to rfc822 specials
      format-patch tests: check quoting/encoding in To: and Cc: headers

Jeff King (3):
      diff_grep: use textconv buffers for add/deleted files
      gitweb: escape html in rss title
      checkout: print a message when switching unborn branches

Junio C Hamano (9):
      builtin/grep.c: make configuration callback more reusable
      grep: move the configuration parsing logic to grep.[ch]
      grep: move pattern-type bits support to top-level grep.[ch]
      revisions: initialize revs->grep_filter using grep_init()
      log --grep: use the same helper to set -E/-F options as "git grep"
      test-lib: Fix say_color () not to interpret \a\b\c in the message
      Start preparing for 1.8.0.1
      Further preparation for 1.8.0.1
      Git 1.8.0.1

Marc Khouzam (1):
      Completion must sort before using uniq

Matthieu Moy (2):
      Documentation: remote tracking branch -> remote-tracking branch
      Document 'git commit --no-edit' explicitly

Michael J Gruber (1):
      push/pull: adjust missing upstream help text to changed interface

Nguyễn Thái Ngọc Duy (1):
      grep: stop looking at random places for .gitattributes

Phil Hord (1):
      git-pull: Avoid merge-base on detached head

Philip Oakley (1):
      Doc repository-layout: Show refs/replace

René Scharfe (6):
      refs: lock symref that is to be deleted, not its target
      branch: factor out check_branch_commit()
      branch: factor out delete_branch_config()
      branch: delete symref branch, not its target
      branch: skip commit checks when deleting symref branches
      branch: show targets of deleted symrefs, not sha1s

Romain Francoise (1):
      mailmap: avoid out-of-bounds memory access

Stefan Zager (1):
      Fix potential hang in https handshake