diff --git a/Documentation/RelNotes-1.7.2.txt b/Documentation/RelNotes-1.7.2.txt
index aa79f06851..b463fd2ae2 100644
--- a/Documentation/RelNotes-1.7.2.txt
+++ b/Documentation/RelNotes-1.7.2.txt
@@ -4,10 +4,13 @@ Git v1.7.2 Release Notes (draft)
 Updates since v1.7.1
 --------------------
 
- * core.eol configuration and eol attribute are the new way to control
-   the end of line conventions for files in the working tree;
-   core.autocrlf overrides it, keeping the traditional behaviour by
-   default.
+ * core.eol configuration and text/eol attributes are the new way to control
+   the end of line conventions for files in the working tree.
+
+ * core.autocrlf has been made safer - it will now only handle line
+   endings for new files and files that are LF-only in the
+   repository. To normalize content that has been checked in with
+   CRLF, use the new eol/text attributes.
 
  * The whitespace rules used in "git apply --whitespace" and "git diff"
    gained a new member in the family (tab-in-indent) to help projects with
@@ -45,8 +48,12 @@ Updates since v1.7.1
    commit.
 
  * "git cherry-pick" learned to pick a range of commits
-   (e.g. "cherry-pick A..B" and "cherry-pick --stdin"); this does not
-   have nicer sequencing control "rebase [-i]" has, though.
+   (e.g. "cherry-pick A..B" and "cherry-pick --stdin"), so did "git
+   revert"; these do not support the nicer sequencing control "rebase
+   [-i]" has, though.
+
+ * "git cherry-pick" and "git revert" learned --strategy option to specify
+   the merge strategy to be used when performing three-way merges.
 
  * "git cvsserver" can be told to use pserver; its password file can be
    stored outside the repository.
@@ -74,7 +81,7 @@ Updates since v1.7.1
  * Various options to "git grep" (e.g. --count, --name-only) work better
    with binary files.
 
- * "git grep" learned "-Ovi" to open the files with hits in yoru editor.
+ * "git grep" learned "-Ovi" to open the files with hits in your editor.
 
  * "git help -w" learned "chrome" and "chromium" browsers.
 
@@ -96,8 +103,6 @@ Updates since v1.7.1
 
  * "git remote" learned "set-branches" subcommand.
 
- * "git revert" learned --strategy option to specify the merge strategy.
-
  * "git rev-list A..B" learned --ancestry-path option to further limit
    the result to the commits that are on the ancestry chain between A and
    B (i.e. commits that are not descendants of A are excluded).
@@ -147,9 +152,6 @@ release, unless otherwise noted.
  * "git diff" could show ambiguous abbreviation of blob object names on
    its "index" line (3e5a188).
 
- * "git rebase" did not faithfully reproduce a malformed author ident, that
-   is often seen in a repository converted from foreign SCMs (43c23251).
-
  * "git reset --hard" started from a wrong directory and a working tree in
    a nonstandard location is in use got confused (560fb6a1).
 
diff --git a/Documentation/git-gc.txt b/Documentation/git-gc.txt
index a9e0882e9b..315f07ef1c 100644
--- a/Documentation/git-gc.txt
+++ b/Documentation/git-gc.txt
@@ -137,6 +137,13 @@ If you are expecting some objects to be collected and they aren't, check
 all of those locations and decide whether it makes sense in your case to
 remove those references.
 
+HOOKS
+-----
+
+The 'git gc --auto' command will run the 'pre-auto-gc' hook.  See
+linkgit:githooks[5] for more information.
+
+
 SEE ALSO
 --------
 linkgit:git-prune[1]
diff --git a/Documentation/git-rerere.txt b/Documentation/git-rerere.txt
index acc220a00f..db99d4786e 100644
--- a/Documentation/git-rerere.txt
+++ b/Documentation/git-rerere.txt
@@ -7,7 +7,7 @@ git-rerere - Reuse recorded resolution of conflicted merges
 
 SYNOPSIS
 --------
-'git rerere' ['clear'|'diff'|'status'|'gc']
+'git rerere' ['clear'|'forget' [<pathspec>]|'diff'|'status'|'gc']
 
 DESCRIPTION
 -----------
@@ -40,6 +40,11 @@ This resets the metadata used by rerere if a merge resolution is to be
 aborted.  Calling 'git am [--skip|--abort]' or 'git rebase [--skip|--abort]'
 will automatically invoke this command.
 
+'forget' <pathspec>::
+
+This resets the conflict resolutions which rerere has recorded for the current
+conflict in <pathspec>.  The <pathspec> is optional.
+
 'diff'::
 
 This displays diffs for the current state of the resolution.  It is
diff --git a/date.c b/date.c
index 68cdcaa3f6..3c981f7eb5 100644
--- a/date.c
+++ b/date.c
@@ -635,7 +635,7 @@ int parse_date_toffset(const char *date, unsigned long *timestamp, int *offset)
 	/* mktime uses local timezone */
 	*timestamp = tm_to_time_t(&tm);
 	if (*offset == -1)
-		*offset = (*timestamp - mktime(&tm)) / 60;
+		*offset = ((time_t)*timestamp - mktime(&tm)) / 60;
 
 	if (*timestamp == -1)
 		return -1;
diff --git a/gitweb/gitweb.perl b/gitweb/gitweb.perl
index 9446376535..1f611d22d4 100755
--- a/gitweb/gitweb.perl
+++ b/gitweb/gitweb.perl
@@ -1027,18 +1027,18 @@ sub dispatch {
 	$actions{$action}->();
 }
 
-sub run_request {
+sub reset_timer {
 	our $t0 = [Time::HiRes::gettimeofday()]
 		if defined $t0;
+	our $number_of_git_cmds = 0;
+}
+
+sub run_request {
+	reset_timer();
 
 	evaluate_uri();
-	evaluate_gitweb_config();
-	evaluate_git_version();
 	check_loadavg();
 
-	# $projectroot and $projects_list might be set in gitweb config file
-	$projects_list ||= $projectroot;
-
 	evaluate_query_params();
 	evaluate_path_info();
 	evaluate_and_validate_params();
@@ -1086,6 +1086,11 @@ sub evaluate_argv {
 
 sub run {
 	evaluate_argv();
+	evaluate_gitweb_config();
+	evaluate_git_version();
+
+	# $projectroot and $projects_list might be set in gitweb config file
+	$projects_list ||= $projectroot;
 
 	$pre_listen_hook->()
 		if $pre_listen_hook;
diff --git a/t/t0006-date.sh b/t/t0006-date.sh
index 75b02af86d..b2df4fe102 100755
--- a/t/t0006-date.sh
+++ b/t/t0006-date.sh
@@ -28,8 +28,8 @@ check_show 31449600 '12 months ago'
 
 check_parse() {
 	echo "$1 -> $2" >expect
-	test_expect_${3:-success} "parse date ($1)" "
-	test-date parse '$1' >actual &&
+	test_expect_${4:-success} "parse date ($1${3:+ TZ=$3})" "
+	TZ=${3:-$TZ} test-date parse '$1' >actual &&
 	test_cmp expect actual
 	"
 }
@@ -38,6 +38,8 @@ check_parse 2008 bad
 check_parse 2008-02 bad
 check_parse 2008-02-14 bad
 check_parse '2008-02-14 20:30:45' '2008-02-14 20:30:45 +0000'
+check_parse '2008-02-14 20:30:45 -0500' '2008-02-14 20:30:45 -0500'
+check_parse '2008-02-14 20:30:45' '2008-02-14 20:30:45 -0500' EST
 
 check_approxidate() {
 	echo "$1 -> $2 +0000" >expect
diff --git a/test-date.c b/test-date.c
index a9e705f79a..ac6854a541 100644
--- a/test-date.c
+++ b/test-date.c
@@ -21,12 +21,15 @@ static void parse_dates(char **argv, struct timeval *now)
 	for (; *argv; argv++) {
 		char result[100];
 		time_t t;
+		int tz;
 
 		result[0] = 0;
 		parse_date(*argv, result, sizeof(result));
-		t = strtoul(result, NULL, 0);
-		printf("%s -> %s\n", *argv,
-			t ? show_date(t, 0, DATE_ISO8601) : "bad");
+		if (sscanf(result, "%ld %d", &t, &tz) == 2)
+			printf("%s -> %s\n",
+			       *argv, show_date(t, tz, DATE_ISO8601));
+		else
+			printf("%s -> bad\n", *argv);
 	}
 }