[ANNOUNCE] Git v2.4.4

The latest maintenance release Git v2.4.4 is now available at the usual places.

The tarballs are found at:

    https://www.kernel.org/pub/software/scm/git/

The following public repositories all have a copy of the 'v2.4.4' tag and the 'maint' branch that the tag points at:

  url = https://kernel.googlesource.com/pub/scm/git/git
  url = git://repo.or.cz/alt-git.git
  url = https://code.google.com/p/git-core/
  url = git://git.sourceforge.jp/gitroot/git-core/git.git
  url = git://git-core.git.sourceforge.net/gitroot/git-core/git-core
  url = https://github.com/gitster/git

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Git v2.4.4 Release Notes ========================

Fixes since v2.4.3 ------------------

 * l10n updates for German.

 * An earlier leakfix to bitmap testing code was incomplete.

 * "git clean pathspec..." tried to lstat(2) and complain even for
   paths outside the given pathspec.

 * Communication between the HTTP server and http_backend process can
   lead to a dead-lock when relaying a large ref negotiation request.
   Diagnose the situation better, and mitigate it by reading such a
   request first into core (to a reasonable limit).

 * The clean/smudge interface did not work well when filtering an
   empty contents (failed and then passed the empty input through).
   It can be argued that a filter that produces anything but empty for
   an empty input is nonsense, but if the user wants to do strange
   things, then why not?

 * Make "git stash something --help" error out, so that users can
   safely say "git stash drop --help".

 * Clarify that "log --raw" and "log --format=raw" are unrelated
   concepts.

 * Catch a programmer mistake to feed a pointer not an array to
   ARRAY_SIZE() macro, by using a couple of GCC extensions.

Also contains typofixes, documentation updates and trivial code clean-ups.

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Changes since v2.4.3 are as follows:

Alex Henrie (1):
      blame, log: format usage strings similarly to those in documentation

David Turner (1):
      clean: only lstat files in pathspec

Elia Pinto (1):
      git-compat-util.h: implement a different ARRAY_SIZE macro for for safely deriving the size of array

Jeff King (8):
      http-backend: fix die recursion with custom handler
      t5551: factor out tag creation
      stash: complain about unknown flags
      stash: recognize "--help" for subcommands
      test_bitmap_walk: free bitmap with bitmap_free
      http-backend: spool ref negotiation requests to buffer
      clone: use OPT_STRING_LIST for --reference
      clone: reorder --dissociate and --reference options

Jim Hill (1):
      sha1_file: pass empty buffer to index empty file

Junio C Hamano (1):
      Git 2.4.4

Matthieu Moy (2):
      Documentation/log: clarify what --raw means
      Documentation/log: clarify sha1 non-abbreviation in log --raw

Michael Coleman (1):
      Documentation/git-commit: grammofix

Michael J Gruber (3):
      l10n: de.po: grammar fix
      l10n: de.po: punctuation fixes
      l10n: de.po: translation fix for fall-back to 3way merge

Phillip Sz (1):
      l10n: de.po: change error message from "sagen" to "Meinten Sie"

René Scharfe (3):
      use file_exists() to check if a file exists in the worktree
      clean: remove unused variable buf
      dir: remove unused variable sb

Stefan Beller (2):
      submodule doc: reorder introductory paragraphs
      glossary: add "remote", "submodule", "superproject"