What's in git.git (Dec 2008, #01; Tue, 02)

We'll probably have 1.6.0.5 by the end of this week.

The tip of the 'master' branch is at 1.6.1-rc1 with a few more fixes. Hopefully we will have the final 1.6.1 by the end of the year.

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

Joey Hess (1):
  sha1_file: avoid bogus "file exists" error message

Johannes Schindelin (1):
  fast-export: use an unsorted string list for extra_refs

Junio C Hamano (1):
  Update draft release notes to 1.6.0.5

Martin Koegler (1):
  git push: Interpret $GIT_DIR/branches in a Cogito compatible way

Matt McCutchen (1):
  git checkout: don't warn about unborn branch if -f is already passed

Miklos Vajna (2):
  Add new testcase to show fast-export does not always exports all tags
  User's Manual: remove duplicated url at the end of Appendix B

Nguyễn Thái Ngọc Duy (1):
  generate-cmdlist.sh: avoid selecting synopsis at wrong place

Pete Wyckoff (1):
  git-p4: fix keyword-expansion regex

Ralf Wildenhues (1):
  Fix typos in the documentation.

SZEDER Gábor (2):
  bash: remove dashed command leftovers
  bash: offer refs instead of filenames for 'git revert'

Sam Vilain (1):
  sha1_file.c: resolve confusion EACCES vs EPERM

Samuel Tardieu (2):
  tag: Check that options are only allowed in the appropriate mode
  tag: Add more tests about mixing incompatible modes and options

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

Alexander Gavrilov (3):
  gitk: Avoid handling the Return key twice in Add Branch
  gitk: Make line origin search update the busy status
  gitk: Add a menu option to start git gui

Cheng Renquan (1):
  git-remote: add verbose mode to git remote update

Christian Couder (4):
  git-gui: french translation update
  bisect: teach "skip" to accept special arguments like "A..B"
  bisect: fix "git bisect skip <commit>" and add tests cases
  Documentation: describe how to "bisect skip" a range of commits

Christian Stimming (1):
  gitk: Update German translation

Giuseppe Bilotta (2):
  gitweb: make gitweb_check_feature a boolean wrapper
  Update comment on gitweb_check/get_feature

Johannes Schindelin (1):
  Document levenshtein.c

Johannes Sixt (2):
  compat/mingw.c: Teach mingw_rename() to replace read-only files
  t4030-diff-textconv: Make octal escape sequence more portable

Junio C Hamano (6):
  gitweb: fix 'ctags' feature check and others
  gitweb: rename gitweb_check_feature to gitweb_get_feature
  send-email: do not reverse the command line arguments
  Include git-gui--askpass in git-gui RPM package
  GIT 1.6.1-rc1
  Makefile: introduce NO_PTHREADS

Linus Torvalds (3):
  Add cache preload facility
  Fix index preloading for racy dirty case
  Add backslash to list of 'crud' characters in real name

Mark Burton (1):
  git-gui: Teach start_push_anywhere_action{} to notice when remote is a
    mirror.

Michele Ballabio (1):
  git gui: update Italian translation

Miklos Vajna (5):
  Update Hungarian translation. 100% completed.
  builtin-clone: use strbuf in guess_dir_name()
  builtin-clone: use strbuf in clone_local() and copy_or_link_directory()
  builtin_clone: use strbuf in cmd_clone()
  git-stash: use git rev-parse -q

Nanako Shiraishi (1):
  git-gui: update Japanese translation

Paul Mackerras (6):
  gitk: Index line[hnd]tag arrays by id rather than row number
  gitk: Fix switch statement in parseviewargs
  gitk: Show local changes properly when we have a path limit
  gitk: Fix context menu items for generating diffs when in tree mode
  gitk: Highlight only when search type is "containing:".
  gitk: Fix bug in accessing undefined "notflag" variable

Peter Krefting (1):
  Updated Swedish translation (514t0f0u).

Pierre Habouzit (4):
  git send-email: make the message file name more specific.
  git send-email: interpret unknown files as revision lists
  git send-email: add --annotate option
  git send-email: ask less questions when --compose is used.

Ralf Wildenhues (1):
  Fix typos in the documentation.

René Scharfe (6):
  add strbuf_expand_dict_cb(), a helper for simple cases
  merge-recursive: use strbuf_expand() instead of interpolate()
  daemon: use strbuf_expand() instead of interpolate()
  daemon: inline fill_in_extra_table_entries()
  daemon: deglobalize variable 'directory'
  remove the unused files interpolate.c and interpolate.h

SZEDER Gábor (1):
  bash: complete full refs

Samuel Tardieu (1):
  Fix deletion of last character in levenshtein distance

Scott Chacon (1):
  Add a built-in alias for 'stage' to the 'add' command

Tuncer Ayaz (2):
  Teach/Fix pull/fetch -q/-v options
  Retain multiple -q/-v occurrences in git pull