What's in git.git (stable) and announcing GIT 1.5.0 preview

GIT v1.5.0 preview

This is not yet -rc1 where all new topics close, but I think it is getting pretty closer. I'd still want to merge updates to fsck/prune to honor reflog entries before -rc1.

I think there are quite a lot of documentation updates remaining after that. There is no patch for "fixed HEAD" yet, and while I would not object people to try to get it working in time, it is purely a feature enhancement and does not have backward compatibility issues, so it does not have to block v1.5.0; it can wait for later releases. So is sliding mmap().

* The 'master' branch has these since the last announcement.

   Alexandre Julliard (1):
      vc-git: Ignore errors caused by a non-existent directory
          in vc-git-registered.

   Brian Gernhardt (2):
      Keep "git --git-dir" from causing a bus error.
      Make git-show-branch options similar to git-branch.

   Eric Wong (3):
      Remove NO_ACCURATE_DIFF options from build systems
      git-svn: enable common fetch/commit options for dcommit
      Makefile: add quick-install-doc for installing pre-built manpages

   Johannes Schindelin (4):
      move read_mmfile() into xdiff-interface
      Add a test for git-rerere
      Make git-rerere a builtin
      commit-tree: encourage UTF-8 commit messages.

   Junio C Hamano (19):
      git-add --interactive
      git-add --interactive: hunk splitting
      revision: --skip=<n>
      merge and reset: adjust for "reset --hard" messages
      default pull: forget about "newbie protection" for now.
      Do not support "partial URL shorthand" anymore.
      Really fix headers for __FreeBSD__
      git-tag: lose exit after die
      Allow branch.*.merge to talk about remote tracking branches.
      git-add --interactive: add documentation
      match_pathspec() -- return how well the spec matched
      git-rm: update to saner semantics
      t3600: update the test for updated git rm
      git-rm: Documentation
      read_directory: show_both option.
      git-add: add ignored files when asked explicitly.
      git-add: warn when adding an ignored file with an explicit request.
      git-add -f: allow adding otherwise ignored files.
      GIT v1.5.0 preview

   Nicolas Pitre (1):
      checkout: make the message about the need for a new branch a bit clearer

   Robert Fitzsimons (16):
      gitweb: Add missing show '...' links change.
      gitweb: optimize git_get_last_activity.
      gitweb: optimize git_shortlog_body.
      gitweb: optimize git_summary.
      gitweb: Use rev-list pattern search options.
      gitweb: Require a minimum of two character for the search text.
      gitweb: Allow search to be disabled from the config file.
      gitweb: Paginate commit/author/committer search output
      gitweb: Add parse_commits, used to bulk load commit objects.
      gitweb: We do longer need the --parents flag in rev-list.
      gitweb: Change summary, shortlog actions to use parse_commits.
      gitweb: Change log action to use parse_commits.
      gitweb: Change header search action to use parse_commits.
      gitweb: Change atom, rss actions to use parse_commits.
      gitweb: Change history action to use parse_commits.
      gitweb: Use rev-list --skip option.

   Shawn Pearce (4):
      Use extended SHA1 syntax in merge-recursive conflicts.
      Display 'theirs' branch name when possible in merge.
      Rename gitfakemmap to git_mmap.
      Switch git_mmap to use pread.