What's in git.git (Oct 2008, #05; Wed, 22)

The latest maintenance release 1.6.0.3 is out. 'master' has gitk updates and also quite a lot of topics that have been cooking in 'next'.

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

Abhijit Bhopatkar (1):
  Documentation: Clarify '--signoff' for git-commit

Junio C Hamano (2):
  Fix testcase failure when extended attributes are in use
  GIT 1.6.0.3

Nicolas Pitre (1):
  rehabilitate 'git index-pack' inside the object store

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

Alexander Gavrilov (3):
  gitk: Fix a bug in collapsing deeply nested trees
  gitk: Enhance file encoding support
  gitk: Implement batch lookup and caching of encoding attrs

Andreas Ericsson (1):
  rebase: Support preserving merges in non-interactive mode

Brian Gernhardt (1):
  format-patch: autonumber by default

Christian Stimming (1):
  gitk: Add untranslated error messages to translation

Dmitry Potapov (2):
  check-attr: add an internal check_attr() function
  check-attr: Add --stdin option

Fredrik Skolmli (1):
  Documentation: Spelling fix

Giuseppe Bilotta (1):
  gitweb: refactor input parameters parse/validation

Jeff King (8):
  refactor handling of "other" files in ls-files and status
  t4012: use test_cmp instead of cmp
  diff: unify external diff and funcname parsing code
  diff: introduce diff.<driver>.binary
  diff: add filter for converting binary to text
  document "intent to add" option to git-add
  rm: loosen safety valve for empty files
  submodule: fix some non-portable grep invocations

Johannes Schindelin (1):
  Fix fetch/pull when run without --update-head-ok

Johannes Sixt (1):
  git-remote: list branches in vertical lists

Jonas Fonseca (1):
  git-check-attr(1): use 'verse' for multi-line synopsis sections

Junio C Hamano (6):
  pull: allow "git pull origin $something:$current_branch" into an unborn
    branch
  Fix "checkout --track -b newbranch" on detached HEAD
  reset --hard/read-tree --reset -u: remove unmerged new paths
  demonstrate breakage of detached checkout with symbolic link HEAD
  Enhance hold_lock_file_for_{update,append}() API
  Fix mismerge at cdb22c4 in builtin-checkout.c

Lee Marlow (2):
  bash completion: Add 'workflows' to 'git help'
  workflows documentation: fix link to git-request-pull[1]

Mark Levedahl (1):
  compat/cygwin.c - Use cygwin's stat if core.filemode == true

Matt McCutchen (1):
  git-merge-recursive: honor merge.conflictstyle once again

Miklos Vajna (2):
  builtin-commit: use reduce_heads() only when appropriate
  Implement git clone -v

Nanako Shiraishi (2):
  rebase --no-verify
  rebase: Document --no-verify option to bypass pre-rebase hook

Paul Mackerras (6):
  gitk: Use <Button-2> for context menus on OSX
  gitk: Clean up file encoding code and add enable/disable option
  gitk: Fix binding for <Return> in sha1 entry field
  gitk: New way of constructing menus that allows for Alt+letter
    accelerators
  gitk: Regenerate .po files
  gitk: Turn short SHA1 names into links too

Petr Baudis (1):
  Do not rename read-only files during a push

René Scharfe (3):
  add alloc_ref_with_prefix()
  use alloc_ref_from_str() everywhere
  make alloc_ref_from_str() the new alloc_ref()

Richard Quirk (1):
  gitk: Bind Key-Return to create on new branch dialog

Shawn O. Pearce (1):
  describe: Make --tags and --all match lightweight tags more often

Stephen Haberman (1):
  rebase--interactive: fix parent rewriting for dropped commits

Thomas Rast (3):
  Documentation: new upstream rebase recovery section in git-rebase
  Documentation: Refer to git-rebase(1) to warn against rewriting
  Documentation: add manpage about workflows