What's in git.git (stable)

For the next maintenance release v1.5.4.4, I made a few cherry-picks from 'master' and also a merge down of a topic branch that has been cooking there, to 'maint'.

On the 'master' front, many topics have been merged. With a few more topics that are still in 'next', we are pretty much done feature-wise for the next feature release v1.5.5.

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

Brandon Casey (1):
  builtin-reflog.c: don't install new reflog on write failure

Bryan Donlan (1):
  Documentation/git-am.txt: Pass -r in the example invocation of rm -f
    .dotest

Caio Marcelo de Oliveira Filho (1):
  filter-branch documentation: non-zero exit status in command abort the
    filter

Carl Worth (1):
  Eliminate confusing "won't bisect on seeked tree" failure

Daniel Barkalow (2):
  Use a single implementation and API for copy_file()
  Don't use GIT_CONFIG in t5505-remote

Jay Soffian (2):
  rev-parse: fix potential bus error with --parseopt option spec handling
  send-email: fix In-Reply-To regression

Johan Herland (2):
  Add testcase for 'git cvsexportcommit -w $cvsdir ...' with relative
    $GIT_DIR
  Fix 'git cvsexportcommit -w $cvsdir ...' when used with relative $GIT_DIR

Johannes Schindelin (3):
  http-push: avoid invalid memory accesses
  http-push: do not get confused by submodules
  http-push: avoid a needless goto

Jonathan del Strother (1):
  Prompt to continue when editing during rebase --interactive

Miklos Vajna (2):
  Documentation/git-filter-branch: add a new msg-filter example
  Documentation/git svn log: add a note about timezones.

Steven Drake (1):
  timezone_names[]: fixed the tz offset for New Zealand.

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

Alexandre Julliard (1):
  git.el: Do not display empty directories.

Andreas Ericsson (1):
  pack-objects: Add runtime detection of online CPU's

Brandon Casey (2):
  builtin-reflog.c: don't install new reflog on write failure
  pack-objects: Print a message describing the number of threads for packing

Carl Worth (1):
  Eliminate confusing "won't bisect on seeked tree" failure

Daniel Barkalow (26):
  Allow callers of unpack_trees() to handle failure
  Add flag to make unpack_trees() not print errors.
  Send unpack-trees debugging output to stderr
  Discard "deleted" cache entries after using them to update the working tree
  Add "skip_unmerged" option to unpack_trees.
  Build-in merge-recursive
  Move create_branch into a library file
  Use diff -u instead of diff in t7201
  Library function to check for unmerged index entries
  Move code to clean up after a branch change to branch.c
  Build in checkout
  Clean up reporting differences on branch switch
  Add more tests for format-patch
  Improve message-id generation flow control for format-patch
  Export some email and pretty-printing functions
  Use ALLOC_GROW in remote.{c,h}
  Add a --cover-letter option to format-patch
  Add tests for extra headers in format-patch
  Fix format.headers not ending with a newline
  Combine To: and Cc: headers
  Support a --cc=<email> option in format-patch
  Resolve value supplied for no-colon push refspecs
  builtin-checkout.c: Remove unused prefix arguments in switch_branches path
  Add support for url aliases in config files
  Add API access to shortlog
  Improve collection of information for format-patch --cover-letter

Gerrit Pape (1):
  hash-object: cleanup handling of command line options

Jakub Narebski (2):
  gitweb: Better cutting matched string and its context
  Add '--fixed-strings' option to "git log --grep" and friends

Jay Soffian (3):
  builtin-checkout.c: fix possible usage segfault
  branch: optionally setup branch.*.merge from upstream local branches
  doc: documentation update for the branch track changes

Jeff King (3):
  help: use parseopt
  make alias lookup a public, procedural function
  help: respect aliases

Jim Meyering (1):
  Avoid unnecessary "if-before-free" tests.

Johannes Schindelin (2):
  xdl_merge(): make XDL_MERGE_ZEALOUS output simpler
  xdl_merge(): introduce XDL_MERGE_ZEALOUS_ALNUM

Johannes Sixt (2):
  start_command(), .in/.out/.err = -1: Callers must close the file descriptor
  start_command(), if .in/.out > 0, closes file descriptors, not the callers

Junio C Hamano (12):
  diff --relative: output paths as relative to the current subdirectory
  diff --relative: help working in a bare repository
  checkout: notice when the switched branch is behind or forked
  checkout: tone down the "forked status" diagnostic messages
  checkout: work from a subdirectory
  checkout: updates to tracking report
  Add merge-subtree back
  checkout: show progress when checkout takes long time while switching
    branches
  checkout: error out when index is unmerged even with -m
  url rewriting: take longest and first match
  git-apply --whitespace=fix: fix off by one thinko
  Revert "pack-objects: Print a message describing the number of threads
    for packing"

Sebastian Noack (1):
  git-svn: Don't prompt for client cert password everytime.

Shawn O. Pearce (5):
  Optimize peel_ref for the current ref of a for_each_ref callback
  Teach git-describe to use peeled ref information when scanning tags
  Avoid accessing non-tag refs in git-describe unless --all is requested
  Teach git-describe --exact-match to avoid expensive tag searches
  Use git-describe --exact-match in bash prompt on detached HEAD

Simon Hausmann (4):
  git-p4: Remove --log-substitutions feature.
  git-p4: Clean up git-p4 submit's log message handling.
  git-p4: Removed git-p4 submit --direct.
  git-p4: git-p4 submit cleanups.

Steffen Prohaska (2):
  t4014: Replace sed's non-standard 'Q' by standard 'q'
  Add tests for filesystem challenges (case and unicode normalization)

Tommy Thorn (1):
  git-p4: support exclude paths

Tor Arvid Lund (1):
  git-p4: Support usage of perforce client spec