From e7b5e92791dd4db3535b527079f985f91d1a5100 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Sebastian Thiel <sebastian.thiel@icloud.com>
Date: Fri, 4 Sep 2020 09:54:15 +0800
Subject: bump patch level

---
 VERSION                |  2 +-
 doc/source/changes.rst | 10 ++++++++++
 2 files changed, 11 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/VERSION b/VERSION
index 23887f6e..c848fb9c 100644
--- a/VERSION
+++ b/VERSION
@@ -1 +1 @@
-3.1.7
+3.1.8
diff --git a/doc/source/changes.rst b/doc/source/changes.rst
index 422d808a..348016ca 100644
--- a/doc/source/changes.rst
+++ b/doc/source/changes.rst
@@ -2,6 +2,16 @@
 Changelog
 =========
 
+3.1.8
+=====
+
+* support for 'includeIf' in git configuration files
+* tests are now excluded from the package, making it conisderably smaller
+
+
+See the following for more details:
+https://github.com/gitpython-developers/gitpython/milestone/40?closed=1* 
+
 
 3.1.7
 =====
-- 
cgit v1.2.3