What's in git.git

* The 'maint' branch has this since the last announcement (v1.4.2.1).

   - Liu Yubao fixed duplicate xmalloc in builtin-add.

   - "git-am --skip" incorrectly insisted that its standard
     input to be connected to a tty.  Fixed.

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

  - http-fetch from a repository that uses alternates to borrow
    from neighbouring repositories were quite broken for some
    time now.  This has been fixed (this fix is also in
    v1.4.2.1).

  - Andy Whitcroft taught send-pack to use git-rev-list --stdin
    so that we can deal with repositories with massive number
    of refs more efficiently.

  - A handful clean-ups, fixes and documentation updates by
    Christian Couder, Dmitry V. Levin, Jonas Fonseca and Linus.

  - Franck Bui-Huu and Rene Scharfe added 'git-archive' command,
    that will eventually supersede 'git-tar-tree' and
    'git-zip-tree'.

    I think zip-tree can be deprecated without hurting too many
    users, judging from its short existence, but I suspect that
    deprecating tar-tree needs to be done very carefully.
    Perhaps we should drop "tar-tree --remote" and "upload-tar",
    but keep tar-tree but make it internally a synonym for
    "archive --format=tar".  We should also update our toplevel
    Makefile to use git-archive.

  - Jakub Narebski continues improving gitweb with help from 
    Martin Waitz, and Matthias Lederhofer.

    We really need some test suites for gitweb.

  - Jeff King rewrote run_status() shell function used in
    git-commit and git-status in C, and made it colorful while
    he was at it.  Johannes Schindelin taught it --untracked.

  - unpack-objects with "-r" now makes the best effort to
    recover objects from a corrupt packfile.

  - apply does not need --binary anymore to take a binary patch.

  - diff --binary does not produce full 40-byte index lines
    unless necessary.

  - pack-objects learned --revs option, which lets it not to
    rely on rev-list.  Instead of taking the list of objects to
    pack from the standard input, it can read the list of rev
    parameters and run rev-list logic internally.

  - rev-list learned --unpacked=<existing pack> option.

  - Linus taught git-grep "-h" option to suppress filename
    output.

  - "git-am --skip" incorrectly insisted that its standard
    input to be connected to a tty.  Fixed.

  - "git-apply" learned to handle --unified=0 patches more
    gracefully by allowing some sanity checks that cannot be
    done with such patches to be disabled.

  - Sasha Khapyorsky noticed that http-fetch commit walker can
    almost deal with ftp:// transport already, and added
    minimum updates to support it.

* The 'next' branch, in addition, has these.

  - Git.pm is on hold, waiting for stripping out Git.xs part before
    going forward.

  - Linus introduced packed refs and taught the core about
    them.  Christian Couder taught git-branch about them and
    Jeff King taught wt-status about it.

    There are still some things that are broken which need to
    be addressed before this series is pushed out to "master".
    I offhand know of these two but there probably are others:

    - "git branch -d" does not work.
    - "git ls-remote rsync://" does not work.

  - An experimental git-for-each-ref command to help language
    bindings to get information on many refs at once.  Hopefully
    Jakub can teach gitweb to use it to speed things up.

* The 'pu' branch, in addition, has these.

  - Jon Loeliger's git-daemon virtual hosting patch; this will be
    dropped and replaced with his updated version.

  - "git log --author=foo", "git log --grep=pattern" support.

  - I haven't started cleaning up the para-walk changes yet; they
    are still in the form of a messy 10-series patchset.  When I
    find time I'd like to rewrite diff-index with it and see how
    well it performs.