diff --git a/builtin/tag.c b/builtin/tag.c
index 74d3780b77..40758d40a5 100644
--- a/builtin/tag.c
+++ b/builtin/tag.c
@@ -73,11 +73,19 @@ static int in_commit_list(const struct commit_list *want, struct commit *c)
 	return 0;
 }
 
-static int contains_recurse(struct commit *candidate,
+enum contains_result {
+	CONTAINS_UNKNOWN = -1,
+	CONTAINS_NO = 0,
+	CONTAINS_YES = 1,
+};
+
+/*
+ * Test whether the candidate or one of its parents is contained in the list.
+ * Do not recurse to find out, though, but return -1 if inconclusive.
+ */
+static enum contains_result contains_test(struct commit *candidate,
 			    const struct commit_list *want)
 {
-	struct commit_list *p;
-
 	/* was it previously marked as containing a want commit? */
 	if (candidate->object.flags & TMP_MARK)
 		return 1;
@@ -85,26 +93,78 @@ static int contains_recurse(struct commit *candidate,
 	if (candidate->object.flags & UNINTERESTING)
 		return 0;
 	/* or are we it? */
-	if (in_commit_list(want, candidate))
+	if (in_commit_list(want, candidate)) {
+		candidate->object.flags |= TMP_MARK;
 		return 1;
+	}
 
 	if (parse_commit(candidate) < 0)
 		return 0;
 
-	/* Otherwise recurse and mark ourselves for future traversals. */
-	for (p = candidate->parents; p; p = p->next) {
-		if (contains_recurse(p->item, want)) {
-			candidate->object.flags |= TMP_MARK;
-			return 1;
-		}
-	}
-	candidate->object.flags |= UNINTERESTING;
-	return 0;
+	return -1;
 }
 
-static int contains(struct commit *candidate, const struct commit_list *want)
+/*
+ * Mimicking the real stack, this stack lives on the heap, avoiding stack
+ * overflows.
+ *
+ * At each recursion step, the stack items points to the commits whose
+ * ancestors are to be inspected.
+ */
+struct stack {
+	int nr, alloc;
+	struct stack_entry {
+		struct commit *commit;
+		struct commit_list *parents;
+	} *stack;
+};
+
+static void push_to_stack(struct commit *candidate, struct stack *stack)
 {
-	return contains_recurse(candidate, want);
+	int index = stack->nr++;
+	ALLOC_GROW(stack->stack, stack->nr, stack->alloc);
+	stack->stack[index].commit = candidate;
+	stack->stack[index].parents = candidate->parents;
+}
+
+static enum contains_result contains(struct commit *candidate,
+		const struct commit_list *want)
+{
+	struct stack stack = { 0, 0, NULL };
+	int result = contains_test(candidate, want);
+
+	if (result != CONTAINS_UNKNOWN)
+		return result;
+
+	push_to_stack(candidate, &stack);
+	while (stack.nr) {
+		struct stack_entry *entry = &stack.stack[stack.nr - 1];
+		struct commit *commit = entry->commit;
+		struct commit_list *parents = entry->parents;
+
+		if (!parents) {
+			commit->object.flags |= UNINTERESTING;
+			stack.nr--;
+		}
+		/*
+		 * If we just popped the stack, parents->item has been marked,
+		 * therefore contains_test will return a meaningful 0 or 1.
+		 */
+		else switch (contains_test(parents->item, want)) {
+		case CONTAINS_YES:
+			commit->object.flags |= TMP_MARK;
+			stack.nr--;
+			break;
+		case CONTAINS_NO:
+			entry->parents = parents->next;
+			break;
+		case CONTAINS_UNKNOWN:
+			push_to_stack(parents->item, &stack);
+			break;
+		}
+	}
+	free(stack.stack);
+	return contains_test(candidate, want);
 }
 
 static void show_tag_lines(const unsigned char *sha1, int lines)
diff --git a/compat/poll/poll.c b/compat/poll/poll.c
index 31163f2ae7..a9b41d89f4 100644
--- a/compat/poll/poll.c
+++ b/compat/poll/poll.c
@@ -605,7 +605,7 @@ restart:
 
   if (!rc && timeout == INFTIM)
     {
-      SwitchToThread();
+      SleepEx (1, TRUE);
       goto restart;
     }
 
diff --git a/config.mak.uname b/config.mak.uname
index efaed94d5d..eebc847b81 100644
--- a/config.mak.uname
+++ b/config.mak.uname
@@ -365,16 +365,16 @@ ifeq ($(uname_S),Windows)
 		compat/win32/pthread.o compat/win32/syslog.o \
 		compat/win32/dirent.o
 	COMPAT_CFLAGS = -D__USE_MINGW_ACCESS -DNOGDI -DHAVE_STRING_H -DHAVE_ALLOCA_H -Icompat -Icompat/regex -Icompat/win32 -DSTRIP_EXTENSION=\".exe\"
-	BASIC_LDFLAGS = -IGNORE:4217 -IGNORE:4049 -NOLOGO -SUBSYSTEM:CONSOLE -NODEFAULTLIB:MSVCRT.lib
+	BASIC_LDFLAGS = -IGNORE:4217 -IGNORE:4049 -NOLOGO -SUBSYSTEM:CONSOLE
 	EXTLIBS = user32.lib advapi32.lib shell32.lib wininet.lib ws2_32.lib
 	PTHREAD_LIBS =
 	lib =
 ifndef DEBUG
-	BASIC_CFLAGS += -GL -Os -MT
+	BASIC_CFLAGS += -GL -Os -MD
 	BASIC_LDFLAGS += -LTCG
 	AR += -LTCG
 else
-	BASIC_CFLAGS += -Zi -MTd
+	BASIC_CFLAGS += -Zi -MDd
 endif
 	X = .exe
 endif
diff --git a/perl/Git/SVN.pm b/perl/Git/SVN.pm
index a59564fb34..09cff135ef 100644
--- a/perl/Git/SVN.pm
+++ b/perl/Git/SVN.pm
@@ -1321,7 +1321,7 @@ sub get_untracked {
 sub parse_svn_date {
 	my $date = shift || return '+0000 1970-01-01 00:00:00';
 	my ($Y,$m,$d,$H,$M,$S) = ($date =~ /^(\d{4})\-(\d\d)\-(\d\d)T
-	                                    (\d\d)\:(\d\d)\:(\d\d)\.\d*Z$/x) or
+	                                    (\d\d?)\:(\d\d)\:(\d\d)\.\d*Z$/x) or
 	                                 croak "Unable to parse date: $date\n";
 	my $parsed_date;    # Set next.
 
diff --git a/t/t7004-tag.sh b/t/t7004-tag.sh
index c8d6e9f88c..ea4d48be2b 100755
--- a/t/t7004-tag.sh
+++ b/t/t7004-tag.sh
@@ -1380,4 +1380,30 @@ test_expect_success 'multiple --points-at are OR-ed together' '
 	test_cmp expect actual
 '
 
+run_with_limited_stack () {
+	(ulimit -s 64 && "$@")
+}
+
+test_lazy_prereq ULIMIT 'run_with_limited_stack true'
+
+# we require ulimit, this excludes Windows
+test_expect_success ULIMIT '--contains works in a deep repo' '
+	>expect &&
+	i=1 &&
+	while test $i -lt 4000
+	do
+		echo "commit refs/heads/master
+committer A U Thor <author@example.com> $((1000000000 + $i * 100)) +0200
+data <<EOF
+commit #$i
+EOF"
+		test $i = 1 && echo "from refs/heads/master^0"
+		i=$(($i + 1))
+	done | git fast-import &&
+	git checkout master &&
+	git tag far-far-away HEAD^ &&
+	run_with_limited_stack git tag --contains HEAD >actual &&
+	test_cmp expect actual
+'
+
 test_done