What's in git.git (stable)

I am happy that we are making steady progress towards v1.5.0, especially with tonight's handful fixes from Shawn.

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

  Jakub Narebski (1):
   Add info about new test families (8 and 9) to t/README

  Johannes Schindelin (1):
   Fix yet another subtle xdl_merge() bug

  Junio C Hamano (12):
   Work around http-fetch built with cURL 7.16.0
   t5400 send-pack test: try a bit more nontrivial transfer.
   Revert "read_directory: show_both option."
   Fix 'git add' with .gitignore
   commit re-encoding: fix confusion between no and default conversion.
   t3900: test log --encoding=none
   Documentation: i18n commit log message notes.
   Documentation: minor rewording for git-log and git-show pages.
   Move commit reencoding parameter parsing to revision.c
   commit-tree: cope with different ways "utf-8" can be spelled.
   i18n: drop "encoding" header in the output after re-coding.
   Documentation/config.txt (and repo-config manpage): mark-up fix.

  Shawn O. Pearce (8):
   Force core.filemode to false on Cygwin.
   Use PATH_MAX constant for --bare.
   Replace "GIT_DIR" with GIT_DIR_ENVIRONMENT.
   Automatically detect a bare git repository.
   Remove unnecessary argc parameter from run_command_v.
   Redirect update hook stdout to stderr.
   Use /dev/null for update hook stdin.
   Teach Git how to parse standard power of 2 suffixes.

  Theodore Ts'o (1):
   Fix formatting for urls section of fetch, pull, and push manpages