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+Git v1.8.3.1 Release Notes
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+
+Fixes since v1.8.3
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+
+ * When $HOME is misconfigured to point at an unreadable directory, we
+ used to complain and die. The check has been loosened.
+
+ * Handling of negative exclude pattern for directories "!dir" was
+ broken in the update to v1.8.3.
+
+Also contains a handful of trivial code clean-ups, documentation
+updates, updates to the test suite, etc.
branch of the `git.git` repository.
Documentation for older releases are available here:
+* link:v1.8.3.1/git.html[documentation for release 1.8.3.1]
+
+* release notes for
+ link:RelNotes/1.8.3.1.txt[1.8.3.1],
+ link:RelNotes/1.8.3.txt[1.8.3].
+
* link:v1.8.2.3/git.html[documentation for release 1.8.2.3]
* release notes for
-Documentation/RelNotes/1.8.3.txt
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+Documentation/RelNotes/1.8.3.1.txt
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