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+Git v1.8.4.1 Release Notes
+==========================
+
+Fixes since v1.8.4
+------------------
+
+ * Some old versions of bash do not grok some constructs like
+ 'printf -v varname' which the prompt and completion code started
+ to use recently. The completion and prompt scripts have been
+ adjusted to work better with these old versions of bash.
+
+ * In FreeBSD's and NetBSD's "sh", a return in a dot script in a
+ function returns from the function, not only in the dot script,
+ breaking "git rebase" on these platforms (regression introduced
+ in 1.8.4-rc1).
+
+ * "git rebase -i" and other scripted commands were feeding a
+ random, data dependent error message to 'echo' and expecting it
+ to come out literally.
+
+ * Setting the "submodule.<name>.path" variable to the empty
+ "true" caused the configuration parser to segfault.
+
+ * Output from "git log --full-diff -- <pathspec>" looked strange
+ because comparison was done with the previous ancestor that
+ touched the specified <pathspec>, causing the patches for paths
+ outside the pathspec to show more than the single commit has
+ changed.
+
+ * The auto-tag-following code in "git fetch" tries to reuse the
+ same transport twice when the serving end does not cooperate and
+ does not give tags that point to commits that are asked for as
+ part of the primary transfer. Unfortunately, Git-aware transport
+ helper interface is not designed to be used more than once, hence
+ this did not work over smart-http transfer. Fixed.
+
+ * Send a large request to read(2)/write(2) as a smaller but still
+ reasonably large chunks, which would improve the latency when the
+ operation needs to be killed and incidentally works around broken
+ 64-bit systems that cannot take a 2GB write or read in one go.
+
+ * A ".mailmap" file that ends with an incomplete line, when read
+ from a blob, was not handled properly.
+
+ * The recent "short-cut clone connectivity check" topic broke a
+ shallow repository when a fetch operation tries to auto-follow
+ tags.
+
+ * When send-email comes up with an error message to die with upon
+ failure to start an SSL session, it tried to read the error
+ string from a wrong place.
+
+ * A call to xread() was used without a loop to cope with short
+ read in the codepath to stream large blobs to a pack.
+
+ * On platforms with fgetc() and friends defined as macros, the
+ configuration parser did not compile.
+
+ * New versions of MediaWiki introduced a new API for returning
+ more than 500 results in response to a query, which would cause
+ the MediaWiki remote helper to go into an infinite loop.
+
+ * Subversion's serf access method (the only one available in
+ Subversion 1.8) for http and https URLs in skelta mode tells its
+ caller to open multiple files at a time, which made "git svn
+ fetch" complain that "Temp file with moniker 'svn_delta' already
+ in use" instead of fetching.
+
+
+Also contains a handful of trivial code clean-ups, documentation
+updates, updates to the test suite, etc.