What's in git.git (Nov 2008, #02; Wed, 12)

The last maintenance release 1.6.0.4 was released a few days ago. There are a few fixes already on 'maint', and also a handful more fixes cooking in 'next', for 1.6.0.5.

I'd like to start closing the cycle for 1.6.1 by declaring -rc0 by the end of this week. In early next month, hopefully -rc1 can contain everything we have in 'next' tonight, plus a handful more topics that are currently parked in 'pu'.

* The 'maint' branch has these fixes since the last announcement.

Alex Riesen (7):
  Add mksnpath which allows you to specify the output buffer
  Fix mkpath abuse in dwim_ref and dwim_log of sha1_name.c
  Fix potentially dangerous uses of mkpath and git_path
  Add git_snpath: a .git path formatting routine with output buffer
  Fix potentially dangerous use of git_path in ref.c
  git_pathdup: returns xstrdup-ed copy of the formatted path
  Use git_pathdup instead of xstrdup(git_path(...))

Alexandre Julliard (2):
  checkout: Don't crash when switching away from an invalid branch.
  git-submodule: Avoid printing a spurious message.

Christian Couder (2):
  Documentation: rev-list: change a few instances of "git-cmd" to "git cmd"
  Documentation: bisect: change a few instances of "git-cmd" to "git cmd"

Christian Jaeger (1):
  Git.pm: do not break inheritance

Clemens Buchacher (2):
  do not force write of packed refs
  push: fix local refs update if already up-to-date

Daniel Lowe (1):
  Fix non-literal format in printf-style calls

Jeff King (1):
  refactor handling of "other" files in ls-files and status

Johannes Schindelin (1):
  Fix fetch/pull when run without --update-head-ok

Junio C Hamano (11):
  pull: allow "git pull origin $something:$current_branch" into an unborn
    branch
  Fix "checkout --track -b newbranch" on detached HEAD
  reset --hard/read-tree --reset -u: remove unmerged new paths
  demonstrate breakage of detached checkout with symbolic link HEAD
  Enhance hold_lock_file_for_{update,append}() API
  Update draft 1.6.0.4 release notes
  format-patch documentation: mention the special case of showing a single
    commit
  GIT 1.6.0.4
  Makefile: help people who run 'make check' by mistake
  checkout: Fix "initial checkout" detection
  Start 1.6.0.5 cycle

Matt Kraai (1):
  Remove the period after the git-check-attr summary

Mikael Magnusson (1):
  Document that git-log takes --all-match.

Miklos Vajna (5):
  Fix git branch -m for symrefs.
  rename_ref(): handle the case when the reflog of a ref does not exist
  Fix git update-ref --no-deref -d.
  git branch -m: forbid renaming of a symref
  update-ref --no-deref -d: handle the case when the pointed ref is packed

Nicolas Pitre (1):
  Fix pack.packSizeLimit and --max-pack-size handling

Quy Tonthat (1):
  Update RPM spec for the new location of git-cvsserver.

Stefan Naewe (1):
  git ls-remote: make usage string match manpage

Yann Dirson (1):
  Add reference for status letters in documentation.

* The 'master' branch has these since the last announcement
  in addition to the above.

Alex Riesen (1):
  Fix potentially dangerous uses of mkpath and git_path

Alexander Gavrilov (5):
  builtin-blame: Reencode commit messages according to git-log rules.
  Windows: Make OpenSSH properly detect tty detachment.
  gitweb: Use single implementation of export_ok check.
  gitweb: Add a per-repository authorization hook.
  gitweb: Fix mod_perl support.

Brian Downing (2):
  Always initialize xpparam_t to 0
  Allow alternate "low-level" emit function from xdl_diff

Christian Couder (1):
  bisect: fix missing "exit"

Daniel Lowe (1):
  Fix non-literal format in printf-style calls

David M. Syzdek (1):
  autoconf: Add link tests to each AC_CHECK_FUNC() test

David Symonds (1):
  git-diff: Add --staged as a synonym for --cached.

Giuseppe Bilotta (5):
  gitweb: parse project/action/hash_base:filename PATH_INFO
  gitweb: generate project/action/hash URLs
  gitweb: use_pathinfo filenames start with /
  gitweb: parse parent..current syntax from PATH_INFO
  gitweb: generate parent..current URLs

Jeff King (1):
  t5400: expect success for denying deletion

John Chapman (2):
  git-p4: Support purged files and optimize memory usage
  git-p4: Cache git config for performance

Junio C Hamano (6):
  Fix reading of cloud tags
  rebase-i-p: minimum fix to obvious issues
  git-rebase--interactive.sh: comparision with == is bashism
  Update draft release notes to 1.6.1
  Update draft release notes to 1.6.1
  git.html: Update the links to stale versions

Markus Heidelberg (1):
  Makefile: add install-man rules (quick and normal)

Miklos Vajna (1):
  parse-opt: migrate builtin-checkout-index.

Nicolas Pitre (5):
  index-pack: rationalize delta resolution code
  index-pack: smarter memory usage during delta resolution
  fix multiple issues in index-pack
  improve index-pack tests
  index-pack: don't leak leaf delta result

Pete Harlan (2):
  contrib/hooks/post-receive-email: Put rev display in separate function
  contrib/hooks/post-receive-email: Make revision display configurable

René Scharfe (3):
  blame: inline get_patch()
  add xdi_diff_hunks() for callers that only need hunk lengths
  blame: use xdi_diff_hunks(), get rid of struct patch

Stephen Haberman (7):
  rebase-i-p: test to exclude commits from todo based on its parents
  rebase-i-p: use HEAD for updating the ref instead of mapping OLDHEAD
  rebase-i-p: delay saving current-commit to REWRITTEN if squashing
  rebase-i-p: fix 'no squashing merges' tripping up non-merges
  rebase-i-p: only list commits that require rewriting in todo
  rebase-i-p: do not include non-first-parent commits touching UPSTREAM
  rebase-i-p: if todo was reordered use HEAD as the rewritten parent