Spent half the day tracking down a strange bug that was apparently
ubuntu-specific and caused git-annex branch changes to get committed to
master. Root cause turned out to failing to recover from an
exception. I'm kicking myself about that, because I remember looking at the
code where the bug was at least twice before and thinking "hmm, should add
exception handling here? nah..".

I made a release with a fix for that and a few minor other accumulated
changes since last Friday's release. The pain point of this release is to
fix building without the webapp (so it will propigate to Debian testing,
etc). This release does not include the direct mode guard, so I'll have a
few weeks until the next release to get that tested.

BTW, Kevin tells me that the machine used to build git-annex for OSX is
going to be upgraded to 10.9 soon. So, hopefully I'll be making autobuilds
of that. I may have to stop the 1.8.