Junio C HamanoI seem to have hurt my back and won't be functional for the rest of the day, so if anybody is wondring why -rc3 does not appear, nor any patch being commented much, the reason is simply because I am taking a day off, not because your patches are wrong or anything.
I liked the general idea of patches from Miklos (merge-recursive), appreciate efforts by Thomas to clarify the semantics of history simplification with various options, diff-tree --stdin update from Karl, Mark's "submodule foreach", Peter's "log --check" exit code work, and p4 update from Anand.
But I haven't looked at any of them beyond their descriptions. Sorry about that. Hopefully competent people other than myself can still comment on them and keep the discussion going and patches getting polished.