[ANNOUNCE] GIT 1.5.1-rc2

It's been a week since -rc1 so here is the -rc2. I think we do not have any issues scheduled for v1.5.1 but not finished, so I am hoping that we could do the final, with possibly only small obvious fixes by the end of the month.

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Changes since v1.5.1-rc1 are as follows:

Alex Riesen (2):
      Document --quiet option to git-diff
      Use diff* with --exit-code in git-am, git-rebase and git-merge-ours

Andy Parkins (2):
      update-hook: abort early if the project description is unset
      update-hook: remove e-mail sending hook.

Brandon Casey (1):
      prefer "git COMMAND" over "git-COMMAND" in gitk

Chris Wright (1):
      make git clone -q suppress the noise with http fetch

Christian Couder (7):
      Bisect: implement "git bisect run <cmd>..." to automatically bisect.
      Documentation: bisect: reformat some paragraphs.
      Documentation: bisect: reword one paragraph.
      Documentation: bisect: reformat more paragraphs.
      Documentation: bisect: add some titles to some paragraphs.
      Documentation: bisect: make a comment fit better in the man page.
      Bisect: Use "git-show-ref --verify" when reseting.

Eric Wong (2):
      gitk: bind <F5> key to Update (reread commits)
      git-svn: fix rel_path() when not connected to the repository root

J. Bruce Fields (5):
      user-manual: run xsltproc without --nonet option
      user-manual: Use def_ instead of ref_ for glossary references.
      glossary: stop generating automatically
      glossary: clean up cross-references
      user-manual: introduce "branch" and "branch head" differently

Jakub Narebski (5):
      gitweb: Fix "next" link in commit view
      gitweb: Don't escape attributes in CGI.pm HTML methods
      gitweb: Fix not marking signoff lines in "log" view
      gitweb: Add some installation notes in gitweb/INSTALL
      gitweb: Add example of config file and how to generate projects list to gitweb/INSTALL

James Bowes (2):
      Replace remaining instances of strdup with xstrdup.
      use xmalloc in git.c and help.c

Jim Meyering (1):
      user-manual.txt: fix a tiny typo.

Johannes Schindelin (5):
      xdiff/xutils.c(xdl_hash_record): factor out whitespace handling
      Add a HOWTO for setting up a standalone git daemon
      Provide some technical documentation for shallow clones
      t4118: be nice to non-GNU sed
      git-revert: Revert revert message to old behaviour

Johannes Sixt (1):
      Teach git-remote to list pushed branches.

Junio C Hamano (15):
      git-log --first-parent: show only the first parent log
      blame: micro-optimize cmp_suspect()
      blame: cmp_suspect is not "cmp" anymore.
      Teach tree_entry_interesting() that the tree entries are sorted.
      tree-diff: avoid strncmp()
      tree_entry_interesting(): allow it to say "everything is interesting"
      git-rebase: make 'rebase HEAD branch' work as expected.
      git-apply: Do not free the wrong buffer when we convert the data for writeout
      checkout: report where the new HEAD is upon detaching HEAD
      git-bisect: typofix
      git-bisect.sh: properly dq $GIT_DIR
      Fix path-limited "rev-list --bisect" termination condition.
      git-am documentation: describe what is taken from where.
      Update README to point at a few key periodical messages to the list
      GIT 1.5.1-rc2

Li Yang (1):
      gitweb: Change to use explicitly function call cgi->escapHTML()

Linus Torvalds (6):
      Fix loose object uncompression check.
      Don't ever return corrupt objects from "parse_object()"
      Be more careful about zlib return values
      Remove "pathlen" from "struct name_entry"
      Initialize tree descriptors with a helper function rather than by hand.
      Switch over tree descriptors to contain a pre-parsed entry

Michael S. Tsirkin (2):
      fix typo in git-am manpage
      git-merge: Put FETCH_HEAD data in merge commit message

Nicolas Pitre (10):
      clean up the delta base cache size a bit
      use a LRU eviction policy for the delta base cache
      don't ever allow SHA1 collisions to exist by fetching a pack
      index-pack: use hash_sha1_file()
      index-pack: more validation checks and cleanups
      improve checkout message when asking for same branch
      minor git-prune optimization
      update HEAD reflog when branch pointed to by HEAD is directly modified
      make it more obvious that temporary files are temporary files
      write_sha1_from_fd() should make new objects read-only

Peter Eriksen (1):
      Documentation/pack-format.txt: Clear up description of types.

Santi Béjar (1):
      git-fetch: Fix single_force in append_fetch_head

Shawn O. Pearce (1):
      contrib/continuous: a continuous integration build manager

Uwe Kleine-König (1):
      Bisect: convert revs given to good and bad to commits