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-rw-r--r--Documentation/RelNotes/1.8.1.6.txt5
-rw-r--r--Documentation/git.txt3
-rwxr-xr-xGIT-VERSION-GEN2
3 files changed, 8 insertions, 2 deletions
diff --git a/Documentation/RelNotes/1.8.1.6.txt b/Documentation/RelNotes/1.8.1.6.txt
index d9de639080..c15cf2e805 100644
--- a/Documentation/RelNotes/1.8.1.6.txt
+++ b/Documentation/RelNotes/1.8.1.6.txt
@@ -4,6 +4,11 @@ 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.
diff --git a/Documentation/git.txt b/Documentation/git.txt
index 98a45addf5..91299174f1 100644
--- a/Documentation/git.txt
+++ b/Documentation/git.txt
@@ -43,9 +43,10 @@ unreleased) version of git, that is available from 'master'
branch of the `git.git` repository.
Documentation for older releases are available here:
-* link:v1.8.1.5/git.html[documentation for release 1.8.1.5]
+* link:v1.8.1.6/git.html[documentation for release 1.8.1.6]
* release notes for
+ link:RelNotes/1.8.1.6.txt[1.8.1.6],
link:RelNotes/1.8.1.5.txt[1.8.1.5],
link:RelNotes/1.8.1.4.txt[1.8.1.4],
link:RelNotes/1.8.1.3.txt[1.8.1.3],
diff --git a/GIT-VERSION-GEN b/GIT-VERSION-GEN
index 6f09e2ff8b..2908204894 100755
--- a/GIT-VERSION-GEN
+++ b/GIT-VERSION-GEN
@@ -1,7 +1,7 @@
#!/bin/sh
GVF=GIT-VERSION-FILE
-DEF_VER=v1.8.1.5
+DEF_VER=v1.8.1.6
LF='
'