What's new in GIT today

GIT 0.99.8a is found in the usual places. It contains the following fixes:

 - Documentation formatting updates, by Jonas Fonseca.

 - Fredrik Kuivinen fixed git-merge to stash away the original
   tree state correctly when using more than one merge
   strategy.  The same commit also adds support for baseless
   merges.

 - 'git repack' can get confused if the tree had a funny
   filename. 

 - Specifying object name with just a short SHA1 prefix sort-of
   worked, but did not do the right thing when ambiguities
   existed between packed and unpacked objects; after thinking
   about it more, I realize that the fixed code still misses
   some ambiguities, but it is a bit better than before.

On the "master" branch front:

 - All of the above, plus the missing fix for SHA1 prefix
   uniqueness check (to be included in 0.99.8b).

 - Cygwin port by H. Peter Anvin.

 - Option parsing in 'git pull' was buggy and could not
   recognize the following sequence:

   $ git fetch http://kernel.org/pub/scm/git/git-cygwin.git/
   $ git pull -a . fixes pull

   to fetch a remote and use that head along with two other
   local heads to create a four-head Octopus.