diff --git a/Documentation/cvs-migration.txt b/Documentation/cvs-migration.txt
index 6812683a16..a436180dd4 100644
--- a/Documentation/cvs-migration.txt
+++ b/Documentation/cvs-migration.txt
@@ -24,6 +24,11 @@ First, note some ways that git differs from CVS:
     single shared repository which people can synchronize with; see below
     for details.
 
+  * Since every working tree contains a repository, a commit in your
+    private repository will not publish your changes; it will only create
+    a revision. You have to "push" your changes to a public repository to
+    make them visible to others.
+
 Importing a CVS archive
 -----------------------
 
@@ -76,8 +81,8 @@ variants of this model.
 With a small group, developers may just pull changes from each other's
 repositories without the need for a central maintainer.
 
-Emulating the CVS Development Model
------------------------------------
+Creating a Shared Repository
+----------------------------
 
 Start with an ordinary git working directory containing the project, and
 remove the checked-out files, keeping just the bare .git directory:
@@ -105,7 +110,10 @@ $ GIT_DIR=repo.git git repo-config core.sharedrepository true
 Make sure committers have a umask of at most 027, so that the directories
 they create are writable and searchable by other group members.
 
-Suppose this repository is now set up in /pub/repo.git on the host
+Performing Development on a Shared Repository
+---------------------------------------------
+
+Suppose a repository is now set up in /pub/repo.git on the host
 foo.com.  Then as an individual committer you can clone the shared
 repository:
 
@@ -134,15 +142,17 @@ Pull: master:origin
 ------------
 ================================
 
-You can update the shared repository with your changes using:
+You can update the shared repository with your changes by first commiting
+your changes, and then using:
 
 ------------------------------------------------
 $ git push origin master
 ------------------------------------------------
 
-If someone else has updated the repository more recently, `git push`, like
-`cvs commit`, will complain, in which case you must pull any changes
-before attempting the push again.
+to "push" those commits to the shared repository.  If someone else has
+updated the repository more recently, `git push`, like `cvs commit`, will
+complain, in which case you must pull any changes before attempting the
+push again.
 
 In the `git push` command above we specify the name of the remote branch
 to update (`master`).  If we leave that out, `git push` tries to update
diff --git a/git-clone.sh b/git-clone.sh
index 826fddac7c..992cb7c0cc 100755
--- a/git-clone.sh
+++ b/git-clone.sh
@@ -413,7 +413,9 @@ then
 			rm -f "refs/remotes/$origin/HEAD"
 			git-symbolic-ref "refs/remotes/$origin/HEAD" \
 				"refs/remotes/$origin/$head_points_at"
-		esac
+		esac &&
+		git-repo-config branch."$head_points_at".remote "$origin" &&
+		git-repo-config branch."$head_points_at".merge "refs/heads/$head_points_at"
 	esac
 
 	case "$no_checkout" in
diff --git a/git-merge.sh b/git-merge.sh
index e4fc9173cc..1e4ab2fd82 100755
--- a/git-merge.sh
+++ b/git-merge.sh
@@ -233,8 +233,9 @@ else
 	# in this loop.
 	merge_name=$(for remote
 		do
-			rh=$(git-rev-parse --verify "$remote"^0 2>/dev/null) &&
-			bh=$(git show-ref -s --verify "refs/heads/$remote") &&
+			rh=$(git-rev-parse --verify "$remote"^0 2>/dev/null) ||
+			continue ;# not something we can merge
+			bh=$(git show-ref -s --verify "refs/heads/$remote" 2>/dev/null)
 			if test "$rh" = "$bh"
 			then
 				echo "$rh		branch '$remote' of ."
diff --git a/git-reset.sh b/git-reset.sh
index 3133b5bd25..c0feb4435d 100755
--- a/git-reset.sh
+++ b/git-reset.sh
@@ -63,6 +63,7 @@ case "$reset_type" in
 	;;
 esac
 
-rm -f "$GIT_DIR/MERGE_HEAD" "$GIT_DIR/rr-cache/MERGE_RR" "$GIT_DIR/SQUASH_MSG"
+rm -f "$GIT_DIR/MERGE_HEAD" "$GIT_DIR/rr-cache/MERGE_RR" \
+	"$GIT_DIR/SQUASH_MSG" "$GIT_DIR/MERGE_MSG"
 
 exit $update_ref_status
diff --git a/git-svn.perl b/git-svn.perl
index d0bd0bdeb8..747daf0181 100755
--- a/git-svn.perl
+++ b/git-svn.perl
@@ -459,6 +459,7 @@ sub fetch_lib {
 		$min = $max + 1;
 		$max += $inc;
 		$max = $head if ($max > $head);
+		$SVN = libsvn_connect($SVN_URL);
 	}
 	restore_index($index);
 	return { revision => $last_rev, commit => $last_commit };
diff --git a/gitweb/gitweb.perl b/gitweb/gitweb.perl
index ffe8ce13ff..61e2ab2900 100755
--- a/gitweb/gitweb.perl
+++ b/gitweb/gitweb.perl
@@ -3229,10 +3229,13 @@ sub git_blob {
 	open my $fd, "-|", git_cmd(), "cat-file", "blob", $hash
 		or die_error(undef, "Couldn't cat $file_name, $hash");
 	my $mimetype = blob_mimetype($fd, $file_name);
-	if ($mimetype !~ m/^text\//) {
+	if ($mimetype !~ m!^(?:text/|image/(?:gif|png|jpeg)$)!) {
 		close $fd;
 		return git_blob_plain($mimetype);
 	}
+	# we can have blame only for text/* mimetype
+	$have_blame &&= ($mimetype =~ m!^text/!);
+
 	git_header_html(undef, $expires);
 	my $formats_nav = '';
 	if (defined $hash_base && (my %co = parse_commit($hash_base))) {
@@ -3269,13 +3272,24 @@ sub git_blob {
 	}
 	git_print_page_path($file_name, "blob", $hash_base);
 	print "<div class=\"page_body\">\n";
-	my $nr;
-	while (my $line = <$fd>) {
-		chomp $line;
-		$nr++;
-		$line = untabify($line);
-		printf "<div class=\"pre\"><a id=\"l%i\" href=\"#l%i\" class=\"linenr\">%4i</a> %s</div>\n",
-		       $nr, $nr, $nr, esc_html($line, -nbsp=>1);
+	if ($mimetype =~ m!^text/!) {
+		my $nr;
+		while (my $line = <$fd>) {
+			chomp $line;
+			$nr++;
+			$line = untabify($line);
+			printf "<div class=\"pre\"><a id=\"l%i\" href=\"#l%i\" class=\"linenr\">%4i</a> %s</div>\n",
+			       $nr, $nr, $nr, esc_html($line, -nbsp=>1);
+		}
+	} elsif ($mimetype =~ m!^image/!) {
+		print qq!<img type="$mimetype"!;
+		if ($file_name) {
+			print qq! alt="$file_name" title="$file_name"!;
+		}
+		print qq! src="! .
+		      href(action=>"blob_plain", hash=>$hash,
+		           hash_base=>$hash_base, file_name=>$file_name) .
+		      qq!" />\n!;
 	}
 	close $fd
 		or print "Reading blob failed.\n";