diff --git a/Documentation/git-archive.txt b/Documentation/git-archive.txt
index 913528d373..031fcd5190 100644
--- a/Documentation/git-archive.txt
+++ b/Documentation/git-archive.txt
@@ -40,6 +40,7 @@ OPTIONS
 
 <extra>::
 	This can be any options that the archiver backend understand.
+	See next section.
 
 --remote=<repo>::
 	Instead of making a tar archive from local repository,
@@ -52,6 +53,18 @@ path::
 	If one or more paths are specified, include only these in the
 	archive, otherwise include all files and subdirectories.
 
+BACKEND EXTRA OPTIONS
+---------------------
+
+zip
+~~~
+-0::
+	Store the files instead of deflating them.
+-9::
+	Highest and slowest compression level.  You can specify any
+	number from 1 to 9 to adjust compression speed and ratio.
+
+
 CONFIGURATION
 -------------
 By default, file and directories modes are set to 0666 or 0777 in tar
diff --git a/Documentation/git.txt b/Documentation/git.txt
index 1bf5ef57e4..2135b65516 100644
--- a/Documentation/git.txt
+++ b/Documentation/git.txt
@@ -266,6 +266,9 @@ gitlink:git-am[1]::
 gitlink:git-applymbox[1]::
 	Apply patches from a mailbox, original version by Linus.
 
+gitlink:git-archive[1]::
+	Creates an archive of files from a named tree.
+
 gitlink:git-bisect[1]::
 	Find the change that introduced a bug by binary search.
 
diff --git a/git-branch.sh b/git-branch.sh
index 2600e9c4a8..4826c75c0a 100755
--- a/git-branch.sh
+++ b/git-branch.sh
@@ -112,6 +112,16 @@ rev=$(git-rev-parse --verify "$head") || exit
 git-check-ref-format "heads/$branchname" ||
 	die "we do not like '$branchname' as a branch name."
 
+if [ -d "$GIT_DIR/refs/heads/$branchname" ]
+then
+	for refdir in `cd "$GIT_DIR" && \
+		find "refs/heads/$branchname" -type d | sort -r`
+	do
+		rmdir "$GIT_DIR/$refdir" || \
+		    die "Could not delete '$refdir', there may still be a ref there."
+	done
+fi
+
 if git-show-ref --verify --quiet -- "refs/heads/$branchname"
 then
 	if test '' = "$force"
diff --git a/interpolate.c b/interpolate.c
index d82f1b51bb..4570c123dc 100644
--- a/interpolate.c
+++ b/interpolate.c
@@ -25,10 +25,10 @@
  */
 
 int interpolate(char *result, int reslen,
-		char *orig,
-		struct interp *interps, int ninterps)
+		const char *orig,
+		const struct interp *interps, int ninterps)
 {
-	char *src = orig;
+	const char *src = orig;
 	char *dest = result;
 	int newlen = 0;
 	char *name, *value;
diff --git a/interpolate.h b/interpolate.h
index 00c63a5622..d16f9244f3 100644
--- a/interpolate.h
+++ b/interpolate.h
@@ -5,6 +5,11 @@
 #ifndef INTERPOLATE_H
 #define INTERPOLATE_H
 
+/*
+ * Convert a NUL-terminated string in buffer orig,
+ * performing substitutions on %-named sub-strings from
+ * the interpretation table.
+ */
 
 struct interp {
 	char *name;
@@ -12,7 +17,7 @@ struct interp {
 };
 
 extern int interpolate(char *result, int reslen,
-		       char *orig,
-		       struct interp *interps, int ninterps);
+		       const char *orig,
+		       const struct interp *interps, int ninterps);
 
 #endif /* INTERPOLATE_H */
diff --git a/t/t3200-branch.sh b/t/t3200-branch.sh
index 5b04efc89d..6907cbcd29 100755
--- a/t/t3200-branch.sh
+++ b/t/t3200-branch.sh
@@ -61,4 +61,16 @@ test_expect_success \
 	 test -f .git/logs/refs/heads/g/h/i &&
 	 diff expect .git/logs/refs/heads/g/h/i'
 
+test_expect_success \
+    'git branch j/k should work after branch j has been deleted' \
+       'git-branch j &&
+        git-branch -d j &&
+        git-branch j/k'
+
+test_expect_success \
+    'git branch l should work after branch l/m has been deleted' \
+       'git-branch l/m &&
+        git-branch -d l/m &&
+        git-branch l'
+
 test_done