diff --git a/Documentation/asciidoc.conf b/Documentation/asciidoc.conf
index 2da867d2f8..1e735df3bb 100644
--- a/Documentation/asciidoc.conf
+++ b/Documentation/asciidoc.conf
@@ -7,6 +7,9 @@
 # Show GIT link as: <command>(<section>); if section is defined, else just show
 # the command.
 
+[macros]
+(?su)[\\]?(?P<name>linkgit):(?P<target>\S*?)\[(?P<attrlist>.*?)\]=
+
 [attributes]
 asterisk=&#42;
 plus=&#43;
diff --git a/Documentation/config.txt b/Documentation/config.txt
index b233fe5352..21ea16590b 100644
--- a/Documentation/config.txt
+++ b/Documentation/config.txt
@@ -839,6 +839,57 @@ gui.blamehistoryctx::
 	Context` menu item is invoked from 'git gui blame'. If this
 	variable is set to zero, the whole history is shown.
 
+guitool.<name>.cmd::
+	Specifies the shell command line to execute when the corresponding item
+	of the linkgit:git-gui[1] `Tools` menu is invoked. This option is
+	mandatory for every tool. The command is executed from the root of
+	the working directory, and in the environment it receives the name of
+	the tool as 'GIT_GUITOOL', the name of the currently selected file as
+	'FILENAME', and the name of the current branch as 'CUR_BRANCH' (if
+	the head is detached, 'CUR_BRANCH' is empty).
+
+guitool.<name>.needsfile::
+	Run the tool only if a diff is selected in the GUI. It guarantees
+	that 'FILENAME' is not empty.
+
+guitool.<name>.noconsole::
+	Run the command silently, without creating a window to display its
+	output.
+
+guitool.<name>.norescan::
+	Don't rescan the working directory for changes after the tool
+	finishes execution.
+
+guitool.<name>.confirm::
+	Show a confirmation dialog before actually running the tool.
+
+guitool.<name>.argprompt::
+	Request a string argument from the user, and pass it to the tool
+	through the 'ARGS' environment variable. Since requesting an
+	argument implies confirmation, the 'confirm' option has no effect
+	if this is enabled. If the option is set to 'true', 'yes', or '1',
+	the dialog uses a built-in generic prompt; otherwise the exact
+	value of the variable is used.
+
+guitool.<name>.revprompt::
+	Request a single valid revision from the user, and set the
+	'REVISION' environment variable. In other aspects this option
+	is similar to 'argprompt', and can be used together with it.
+
+guitool.<name>.revunmerged::
+	Show only unmerged branches in the 'revprompt' subdialog.
+	This is useful for tools similar to merge or rebase, but not
+	for things like checkout or reset.
+
+guitool.<name>.title::
+	Specifies the title to use for the prompt dialog. The default
+	is the tool name.
+
+guitool.<name>.prompt::
+	Specifies the general prompt string to display at the top of
+	the dialog, before subsections for 'argprompt' and 'revprompt'.
+	The default value includes the actual command.
+
 help.browser::
 	Specify the browser that will be used to display help in the
 	'web' format. See linkgit:git-help[1].
diff --git a/Documentation/git-config.txt b/Documentation/git-config.txt
index 28e1861094..19a8917b83 100644
--- a/Documentation/git-config.txt
+++ b/Documentation/git-config.txt
@@ -279,7 +279,7 @@ If you want to know all the values for a multivar, do:
 % git config --get-all core.gitproxy
 ------------
 
-If you like to live dangerous, you can replace *all* core.gitproxy by a
+If you like to live dangerously, you can replace *all* core.gitproxy by a
 new one with
 
 ------------
diff --git a/Documentation/git-fast-export.txt b/Documentation/git-fast-export.txt
index b974e2115b..99a1c3158d 100644
--- a/Documentation/git-fast-export.txt
+++ b/Documentation/git-fast-export.txt
@@ -15,7 +15,7 @@ DESCRIPTION
 This program dumps the given revisions in a form suitable to be piped
 into 'git-fast-import'.
 
-You can use it as a human readable bundle replacement (see
+You can use it as a human-readable bundle replacement (see
 linkgit:git-bundle[1]), or as a kind of an interactive
 'git-filter-branch'.
 
diff --git a/Documentation/git-merge-base.txt b/Documentation/git-merge-base.txt
index 2f0c5259e0..767486c770 100644
--- a/Documentation/git-merge-base.txt
+++ b/Documentation/git-merge-base.txt
@@ -16,15 +16,15 @@ DESCRIPTION
 'git-merge-base' finds best common ancestor(s) between two commits to use
 in a three-way merge.  One common ancestor is 'better' than another common
 ancestor if the latter is an ancestor of the former.  A common ancestor
-that does not have any better common ancestor than it is a 'best common
+that does not have any better common ancestor is a 'best common
 ancestor', i.e. a 'merge base'.  Note that there can be more than one
-merge bases between two commits.
+merge base for a pair of commits.
 
-Among the two commits to compute their merge bases, one is specified by
+Among the two commits to compute the merge base from, one is specified by
 the first commit argument on the command line; the other commit is a
 (possibly hypothetical) commit that is a merge across all the remaining
-commits on the command line.  As the most common special case, giving only
-two commits from the command line means computing the merge base between
+commits on the command line.  As the most common special case, specifying only
+two commits on the command line means computing the merge base between
 the given two commits.
 
 OPTIONS
@@ -47,7 +47,7 @@ For example, with this topology:
 the merge base between 'A' and 'B' is '1'.
 
 Given three commits 'A', 'B' and 'C', `git merge-base A B C` will compute the
-merge base between 'A' and an hypothetical commit 'M', which is a merge
+merge base between 'A' and a hypothetical commit 'M', which is a merge
 between 'B' and 'C'.  For example, with this topology:
 
 	       o---o---o---o---C
@@ -71,8 +71,7 @@ common ancestor between 'A' and 'M', but '1' is a better common ancestor,
 because '2' is an ancestor of '1'.  Hence, '2' is not a merge base.
 
 When the history involves criss-cross merges, there can be more than one
-'best' common ancestors between two commits.  For example, with this
-topology:
+'best' common ancestor for two commits.  For example, with this topology:
 
        ---1---o---A
 	   \ /
@@ -80,8 +79,8 @@ topology:
 	   / \
        ---2---o---o---B
 
-both '1' and '2' are merge-base of A and B.  Neither one is better than
-the other (both are 'best' merge base).  When `--all` option is not given,
+both '1' and '2' are merge-bases of A and B.  Neither one is better than
+the other (both are 'best' merge bases).  When the `--all` option is not given,
 it is unspecified which best one is output.
 
 Author
diff --git a/Documentation/git-merge-file.txt b/Documentation/git-merge-file.txt
index 024ec015a3..303537357b 100644
--- a/Documentation/git-merge-file.txt
+++ b/Documentation/git-merge-file.txt
@@ -15,17 +15,17 @@ SYNOPSIS
 
 DESCRIPTION
 -----------
-'git-file-merge' incorporates all changes that lead from the `<base-file>`
+'git-merge-file' incorporates all changes that lead from the `<base-file>`
 to `<other-file>` into `<current-file>`. The result ordinarily goes into
 `<current-file>`. 'git-merge-file' is useful for combining separate changes
 to an original. Suppose `<base-file>` is the original, and both
-`<current-file>` and `<other-file>` are modifications of `<base-file>`.
-Then 'git-merge-file' combines both changes.
+`<current-file>` and `<other-file>` are modifications of `<base-file>`,
+then 'git-merge-file' combines both changes.
 
 A conflict occurs if both `<current-file>` and `<other-file>` have changes
 in a common segment of lines. If a conflict is found, 'git-merge-file'
-normally outputs a warning and brackets the conflict with <<<<<<< and
->>>>>>> lines. A typical conflict will look like this:
+normally outputs a warning and brackets the conflict with lines containing
+<<<<<<< and >>>>>>> markers. A typical conflict will look like this:
 
 	<<<<<<< A
 	lines in file A
@@ -60,7 +60,7 @@ OPTIONS
 	`<current-file>`.
 
 -q::
-	Quiet;  do  not  warn about conflicts.
+	Quiet; do not warn about conflicts.
 
 
 EXAMPLES
diff --git a/Documentation/git-merge-index.txt b/Documentation/git-merge-index.txt
index ff088c5c29..123e6d024a 100644
--- a/Documentation/git-merge-index.txt
+++ b/Documentation/git-merge-index.txt
@@ -29,11 +29,11 @@ OPTIONS
 	Instead of stopping at the first failed merge, do all of them
 	in one shot - continue with merging even when previous merges
 	returned errors, and only return the error code after all the
-	merges are over.
+	merges.
 
 -q::
-	Do not complain about failed merge program (the merge program
-	failure usually indicates conflicts during merge). This is for
+	Do not complain about a failed merge program (a merge program
+	failure usually indicates conflicts during the merge). This is for
 	porcelains which might want to emit custom messages.
 
 If 'git-merge-index' is called with multiple <file>s (or -a) then it
diff --git a/Documentation/git-merge-tree.txt b/Documentation/git-merge-tree.txt
index dbb0c18668..f869a7f00f 100644
--- a/Documentation/git-merge-tree.txt
+++ b/Documentation/git-merge-tree.txt
@@ -14,14 +14,14 @@ DESCRIPTION
 -----------
 Reads three treeish, and output trivial merge results and
 conflicting stages to the standard output.  This is similar to
-what three-way read-tree -m does, but instead of storing the
+what three-way 'git read-tree -m' does, but instead of storing the
 results in the index, the command outputs the entries to the
 standard output.
 
 This is meant to be used by higher level scripts to compute
-merge results outside index, and stuff the results back into the
+merge results outside of the index, and stuff the results back into the
 index.  For this reason, the output from the command omits
-entries that match <branch1> tree.
+entries that match the <branch1> tree.
 
 Author
 ------
diff --git a/Documentation/git-merge.txt b/Documentation/git-merge.txt
index 1f30830d46..f7be5846a6 100644
--- a/Documentation/git-merge.txt
+++ b/Documentation/git-merge.txt
@@ -69,20 +69,20 @@ Three kinds of merge can happen:
   simplest case, called "Already up-to-date."
 
 * `HEAD` is already contained in the merged commit. This is the
-  most common case especially when involved through 'git pull':
-  you are tracking an upstream repository, committed no local
+  most common case especially when invoked from 'git pull':
+  you are tracking an upstream repository, have committed no local
   changes and now you want to update to a newer upstream revision.
-  Your `HEAD` (and the index) is updated to at point the merged
+  Your `HEAD` (and the index) is updated to point at the merged
   commit, without creating an extra merge commit.  This is
   called "Fast-forward".
 
 * Both the merged commit and `HEAD` are independent and must be
-  tied together by a merge commit that has them both as its parents.
+  tied together by a merge commit that has both of them as its parents.
   The rest of this section describes this "True merge" case.
 
 The chosen merge strategy merges the two commits into a single
 new source tree.
-When things cleanly merge, these things happen:
+When things merge cleanly, this is what happens:
 
 1. The results are updated both in the index file and in your
    working tree;
@@ -91,16 +91,16 @@ When things cleanly merge, these things happen:
 4. The `HEAD` pointer gets advanced.
 
 Because of 2., we require that the original state of the index
-file to match exactly the current `HEAD` commit; otherwise we
+file matches exactly the current `HEAD` commit; otherwise we
 will write out your local changes already registered in your
 index file along with the merge result, which is not good.
-Because 1. involves only the paths different between your
+Because 1. involves only those paths differing between your
 branch and the remote branch you are pulling from during the
 merge (which is typically a fraction of the whole tree), you can
 have local modifications in your working tree as long as they do
 not overlap with what the merge updates.
 
-When there are conflicts, these things happen:
+When there are conflicts, the following happens:
 
 1. `HEAD` stays the same.
 
@@ -111,8 +111,8 @@ When there are conflicts, these things happen:
    versions; stage1 stores the version from the common ancestor,
    stage2 from `HEAD`, and stage3 from the remote branch (you
    can inspect the stages with `git ls-files -u`).  The working
-   tree files have the result of "merge" program; i.e. 3-way
-   merge result with familiar conflict markers `<<< === >>>`.
+   tree files contain the result of the "merge" program; i.e. 3-way
+   merge results with familiar conflict markers `<<< === >>>`.
 
 4. No other changes are done.  In particular, the local
    modifications you had before you started merge will stay the
@@ -145,13 +145,13 @@ Git makes conflict resolution easy.
 And here is another line that is cleanly resolved or unmodified.
 ------------
 
-The area a pair of conflicting changes happened is marked with markers
+The area where a pair of conflicting changes happened is marked with markers
 "`<<<<<<<`", "`=======`", and "`>>>>>>>`".  The part before the "`=======`"
-is typically your side, and the part after it is typically their side.
+is typically your side, and the part afterwards is typically their side.
 
-The default format does not show what the original said in the conflicted
-area.  You cannot tell how many lines are deleted and replaced with the
-Barbie's remark by your side.  The only thing you can tell is that your
+The default format does not show what the original said in the conflicting
+area.  You cannot tell how many lines are deleted and replaced with
+Barbie's remark on your side.  The only thing you can tell is that your
 side wants to say it is hard and you'd prefer to go shopping, while the
 other side wants to claim it is easy.
 
@@ -186,14 +186,14 @@ HOW TO RESOLVE CONFLICTS
 
 After seeing a conflict, you can do two things:
 
- * Decide not to merge.  The only clean-up you need are to reset
+ * Decide not to merge.  The only clean-ups you need are to reset
    the index file to the `HEAD` commit to reverse 2. and to clean
    up working tree changes made by 2. and 3.; 'git-reset --hard' can
    be used for this.
 
  * Resolve the conflicts.  Git will mark the conflicts in
    the working tree.  Edit the files into shape and
-   'git-add' to the index.  'git-commit' to seal the deal.
+   'git-add' them to the index.  Use 'git-commit' to seal the deal.
 
 You can work through the conflict with a number of tools:
 
diff --git a/Documentation/git-mergetool.txt b/Documentation/git-mergetool.txt
index e0b2703b38..602e7c6d3b 100644
--- a/Documentation/git-mergetool.txt
+++ b/Documentation/git-mergetool.txt
@@ -38,7 +38,7 @@ can configure the absolute path to kdiff3 by setting
 `mergetool.kdiff3.path`. Otherwise, 'git-mergetool' assumes the
 tool is available in PATH.
 +
-Instead of running one of the known merge tool programs
+Instead of running one of the known merge tool programs,
 'git-mergetool' can be customized to run an alternative program
 by specifying the command line to invoke in a configuration
 variable `mergetool.<tool>.cmd`.
@@ -55,7 +55,7 @@ of the file to which the merge tool should write the result of the
 merge resolution.
 +
 If the custom merge tool correctly indicates the success of a
-merge resolution with its exit code then the configuration
+merge resolution with its exit code, then the configuration
 variable `mergetool.<tool>.trustExitCode` can be set to `true`.
 Otherwise, 'git-mergetool' will prompt the user to indicate the
 success of the resolution after the custom tool has exited.
diff --git a/Documentation/git-send-email.txt b/Documentation/git-send-email.txt
index acf8bf41d6..12788667d4 100644
--- a/Documentation/git-send-email.txt
+++ b/Documentation/git-send-email.txt
@@ -46,7 +46,7 @@ The --cc option must be repeated for each user you want on the cc list.
 	Use $GIT_EDITOR, core.editor, $VISUAL, or $EDITOR to edit an
 	introductory message for the patch series.
 +
-When compose is in used, git send-email gets less interactive will use the
+When '--compose' is used, git send-email gets less interactive will use the
 values of the headers you set there. If the body of the email (what you type
 after the headers and a blank line) only contains blank (or GIT: prefixed)
 lines, the summary won't be sent, but git-send-email will still use the
diff --git a/Documentation/merge-config.txt b/Documentation/merge-config.txt
index 86d5b26ab2..1ff08ff2cc 100644
--- a/Documentation/merge-config.txt
+++ b/Documentation/merge-config.txt
@@ -1,10 +1,10 @@
 merge.conflictstyle::
 	Specify the style in which conflicted hunks are written out to
 	working tree files upon merge.  The default is "merge", which
-	shows `<<<<<<<` conflict marker, change made by one side,
-	`=======` marker, change made by the other side, and then
-	`>>>>>>>` marker.  An alternate style, "diff3", adds `|||||||`
-	marker and the original text before `=======` marker.
+	shows a `<<<<<<<` conflict marker, changes made by one side,
+	a `=======` marker, changes made by the other side, and then
+	a `>>>>>>>` marker.  An alternate style, "diff3", adds a `|||||||`
+	marker and the original text before the `=======` marker.
 
 merge.log::
 	Whether to include summaries of merged commits in newly created
@@ -32,10 +32,10 @@ merge.verbosity::
 	message if conflicts were detected. Level 1 outputs only
 	conflicts, 2 outputs conflicts and file changes.  Level 5 and
 	above outputs debugging information.  The default is level 2.
-	Can be overridden by 'GIT_MERGE_VERBOSITY' environment variable.
+	Can be overridden by the 'GIT_MERGE_VERBOSITY' environment variable.
 
 merge.<driver>.name::
-	Defines a human readable name for a custom low-level
+	Defines a human-readable name for a custom low-level
 	merge driver.  See linkgit:gitattributes[5] for details.
 
 merge.<driver>.driver::
diff --git a/Documentation/merge-options.txt b/Documentation/merge-options.txt
index 427cdefd01..637b53f898 100644
--- a/Documentation/merge-options.txt
+++ b/Documentation/merge-options.txt
@@ -12,7 +12,7 @@
 
 -n::
 --no-stat::
-	Do not show diffstat at the end of the merge.
+	Do not show a diffstat at the end of the merge.
 
 --summary::
 --no-summary::
diff --git a/Documentation/technical/racy-git.txt b/Documentation/technical/racy-git.txt
index 6bdf034b3a..48bb97f0b1 100644
--- a/Documentation/technical/racy-git.txt
+++ b/Documentation/technical/racy-git.txt
@@ -135,7 +135,7 @@ them, and give the same timestamp to the index file:
 
 This will make all index entries racily clean.  The linux-2.6
 project, for example, there are over 20,000 files in the working
-tree.  On my Athron 64X2 3800+, after the above:
+tree.  On my Athlon 64 X2 3800+, after the above:
 
   $ /usr/bin/time git diff-files
   1.68user 0.54system 0:02.22elapsed 100%CPU (0avgtext+0avgdata 0maxresident)k
diff --git a/Documentation/user-manual.txt b/Documentation/user-manual.txt
index 9f527d3b2e..d4b1e90f94 100644
--- a/Documentation/user-manual.txt
+++ b/Documentation/user-manual.txt
@@ -13,7 +13,7 @@ to build and test a particular version of a software project, search for
 regressions, and so on.
 
 People needing to do actual development will also want to read
-<<Developing-with-git>> and <<sharing-development>>.
+<<Developing-With-git>> and <<sharing-development>>.
 
 Further chapters cover more specialized topics.
 
@@ -399,7 +399,7 @@ the order it uses to decide which to choose when there are multiple
 references with the same shorthand name, see the "SPECIFYING
 REVISIONS" section of linkgit:git-rev-parse[1].
 
-[[Updating-a-repository-with-git-fetch]]
+[[Updating-a-repository-With-git-fetch]]
 Updating a repository with git-fetch
 ------------------------------------
 
@@ -955,7 +955,7 @@ echo "git diff --stat --summary -M v$last v$new > ../diffstat-$new"
 and then he just cut-and-pastes the output commands after verifying that
 they look OK.
 
-[[Finding-comments-with-given-content]]
+[[Finding-comments-With-given-Content]]
 Finding commits referencing a file with given content
 ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
 
@@ -972,7 +972,7 @@ Figuring out why this works is left as an exercise to the (advanced)
 student.  The linkgit:git-log[1], linkgit:git-diff-tree[1], and
 linkgit:git-hash-object[1] man pages may prove helpful.
 
-[[Developing-with-git]]
+[[Developing-With-git]]
 Developing with git
 ===================
 
@@ -1675,7 +1675,7 @@ dangling objects can arise in other situations.
 Sharing development with others
 ===============================
 
-[[getting-updates-with-git-pull]]
+[[getting-updates-With-git-pull]]
 Getting updates with git-pull
 -----------------------------
 
@@ -1683,7 +1683,7 @@ After you clone a repository and make a few changes of your own, you
 may wish to check the original repository for updates and merge them
 into your own work.
 
-We have already seen <<Updating-a-repository-with-git-fetch,how to
+We have already seen <<Updating-a-repository-With-git-fetch,how to
 keep remote tracking branches up to date>> with linkgit:git-fetch[1],
 and how to merge two branches.  So you can merge in changes from the
 original repository's master branch with:
@@ -1794,7 +1794,7 @@ Public git repositories
 
 Another way to submit changes to a project is to tell the maintainer
 of that project to pull the changes from your repository using
-linkgit:git-pull[1].  In the section "<<getting-updates-with-git-pull,
+linkgit:git-pull[1].  In the section "<<getting-updates-With-git-pull,
 Getting updates with git-pull>>" we described this as a way to get
 updates from the "main" repository, but it works just as well in the
 other direction.
@@ -2004,7 +2004,7 @@ $ git push ssh://yourserver.com/~you/proj.git +master
 Normally whenever a branch head in a public repository is modified, it
 is modified to point to a descendant of the commit that it pointed to
 before.  By forcing a push in this situation, you break that convention.
-(See <<problems-with-rewriting-history>>.)
+(See <<problems-With-rewriting-history>>.)
 
 Nevertheless, this is a common practice for people that need a simple
 way to publish a work-in-progress patch series, and it is an acceptable
@@ -2573,7 +2573,7 @@ There are numerous other tools, such as StGIT, which exist for the
 purpose of maintaining a patch series.  These are outside of the scope of
 this manual.
 
-[[problems-with-rewriting-history]]
+[[problems-With-rewriting-history]]
 Problems with rewriting history
 -------------------------------
 
diff --git a/builtin-add.c b/builtin-add.c
index ea4e77169a..719de8b0f2 100644
--- a/builtin-add.c
+++ b/builtin-add.c
@@ -23,7 +23,7 @@ static void fill_pathspec_matches(const char **pathspec, char *seen, int specs)
 	int num_unmatched = 0, i;
 
 	/*
-	 * Since we are walking the index as if we are warlking the directory,
+	 * Since we are walking the index as if we were walking the directory,
 	 * we have to mark the matched pathspec as seen; otherwise we will
 	 * mistakenly think that the user gave a pathspec that did not match
 	 * anything.
diff --git a/builtin-branch.c b/builtin-branch.c
index 494cbac005..02fa38fd3b 100644
--- a/builtin-branch.c
+++ b/builtin-branch.c
@@ -165,7 +165,8 @@ static int delete_branches(int argc, const char **argv, int force, int kinds)
 			ret = 1;
 		} else {
 			struct strbuf buf = STRBUF_INIT;
-			printf("Deleted %sbranch %s.\n", remote, argv[i]);
+			printf("Deleted %sbranch %s (%s).\n", remote, argv[i],
+				find_unique_abbrev(sha1, DEFAULT_ABBREV));
 			strbuf_addf(&buf, "branch.%s", argv[i]);
 			if (git_config_rename_section(buf.buf, NULL) < 0)
 				warning("Update of config-file failed");
diff --git a/builtin-checkout.c b/builtin-checkout.c
index 7f3bd7bb1c..c2c05613b6 100644
--- a/builtin-checkout.c
+++ b/builtin-checkout.c
@@ -228,7 +228,8 @@ static int checkout_paths(struct tree *source_tree, const char **pathspec,
 	struct lock_file *lock_file = xcalloc(1, sizeof(struct lock_file));
 
 	newfd = hold_locked_index(lock_file, 1);
-	read_cache();
+	if (read_cache() < 0)
+		return error("corrupt index file");
 
 	if (source_tree)
 		read_tree_some(source_tree, pathspec);
@@ -371,7 +372,9 @@ static int merge_working_tree(struct checkout_opts *opts,
 	int ret;
 	struct lock_file *lock_file = xcalloc(1, sizeof(struct lock_file));
 	int newfd = hold_locked_index(lock_file, 1);
-	read_cache();
+
+	if (read_cache() < 0)
+		return error("corrupt index file");
 
 	if (opts->force) {
 		ret = reset_tree(new->commit->tree, opts, 1);
diff --git a/builtin-commit.c b/builtin-commit.c
index 2b499fa543..e88b78f811 100644
--- a/builtin-commit.c
+++ b/builtin-commit.c
@@ -932,11 +932,6 @@ static int git_commit_config(const char *k, const char *v, void *cb)
 	return git_status_config(k, v, cb);
 }
 
-static const char commit_utf8_warn[] =
-"Warning: commit message does not conform to UTF-8.\n"
-"You may want to amend it after fixing the message, or set the config\n"
-"variable i18n.commitencoding to the encoding your project uses.\n";
-
 int cmd_commit(int argc, const char **argv, const char *prefix)
 {
 	struct strbuf sb = STRBUF_INIT;
diff --git a/builtin-diff.c b/builtin-diff.c
index dddcf697d7..d75d69bf57 100644
--- a/builtin-diff.c
+++ b/builtin-diff.c
@@ -290,8 +290,9 @@ int cmd_diff(int argc, const char **argv, const char *prefix)
 	/* Otherwise, we are doing the usual "git" diff */
 	rev.diffopt.skip_stat_unmatch = !!diff_auto_refresh_index;
 
-	/* Default to let external be used */
+	/* Default to let external and textconv be used */
 	DIFF_OPT_SET(&rev.diffopt, ALLOW_EXTERNAL);
+	DIFF_OPT_SET(&rev.diffopt, ALLOW_TEXTCONV);
 
 	if (nongit)
 		die("Not a git repository");
@@ -303,7 +304,6 @@ int cmd_diff(int argc, const char **argv, const char *prefix)
 	}
 
 	DIFF_OPT_SET(&rev.diffopt, RECURSIVE);
-	DIFF_OPT_SET(&rev.diffopt, ALLOW_TEXTCONV);
 
 	/*
 	 * If the user asked for our exit code then don't start a
diff --git a/builtin-fsck.c b/builtin-fsck.c
index afded5e68d..297b2c41c6 100644
--- a/builtin-fsck.c
+++ b/builtin-fsck.c
@@ -64,11 +64,11 @@ static int fsck_error_func(struct object *obj, int type, const char *err, ...)
 	return (type == FSCK_WARN) ? 0 : 1;
 }
 
+static struct object_array pending;
+
 static int mark_object(struct object *obj, int type, void *data)
 {
-	struct tree *tree = NULL;
 	struct object *parent = data;
-	int result;
 
 	if (!obj) {
 		printf("broken link from %7s %s\n",
@@ -96,6 +96,20 @@ static int mark_object(struct object *obj, int type, void *data)
 		return 1;
 	}
 
+	add_object_array(obj, (void *) parent, &pending);
+	return 0;
+}
+
+static void mark_object_reachable(struct object *obj)
+{
+	mark_object(obj, OBJ_ANY, 0);
+}
+
+static int traverse_one_object(struct object *obj, struct object *parent)
+{
+	int result;
+	struct tree *tree = NULL;
+
 	if (obj->type == OBJ_TREE) {
 		obj->parsed = 0;
 		tree = (struct tree *)obj;
@@ -107,15 +121,22 @@ static int mark_object(struct object *obj, int type, void *data)
 		free(tree->buffer);
 		tree->buffer = NULL;
 	}
-	if (result < 0)
-		result = 1;
-
 	return result;
 }
 
-static void mark_object_reachable(struct object *obj)
+static int traverse_reachable(void)
 {
-	mark_object(obj, OBJ_ANY, 0);
+	int result = 0;
+	while (pending.nr) {
+		struct object_array_entry *entry;
+		struct object *obj, *parent;
+
+		entry = pending.objects + --pending.nr;
+		obj = entry->item;
+		parent = (struct object *) entry->name;
+		result |= traverse_one_object(obj, parent);
+	}
+	return !!result;
 }
 
 static int mark_used(struct object *obj, int type, void *data)
@@ -237,6 +258,9 @@ static void check_connectivity(void)
 {
 	int i, max;
 
+	/* Traverse the pending reachable objects */
+	traverse_reachable();
+
 	/* Look up all the requirements, warn about missing objects.. */
 	max = get_max_object_index();
 	if (verbose)
diff --git a/builtin-log.c b/builtin-log.c
index b164717379..99d1137b08 100644
--- a/builtin-log.c
+++ b/builtin-log.c
@@ -37,6 +37,7 @@ static void cmd_log_init(int argc, const char **argv, const char *prefix,
 	DIFF_OPT_SET(&rev->diffopt, RECURSIVE);
 	rev->show_root_diff = default_show_root;
 	rev->subject_prefix = fmt_patch_subject_prefix;
+	DIFF_OPT_SET(&rev->diffopt, ALLOW_TEXTCONV);
 
 	if (default_date_mode)
 		rev->date_mode = parse_date_format(default_date_mode);
@@ -60,7 +61,6 @@ static void cmd_log_init(int argc, const char **argv, const char *prefix,
 		} else
 			die("unrecognized argument: %s", arg);
 	}
-	DIFF_OPT_SET(&rev->diffopt, ALLOW_TEXTCONV);
 }
 
 /*
@@ -340,7 +340,13 @@ int cmd_show(int argc, const char **argv, const char *prefix)
 					t->tag,
 					diff_get_color_opt(&rev.diffopt, DIFF_RESET));
 			ret = show_object(o->sha1, 1, &rev);
-			objects[i].item = parse_object(t->tagged->sha1);
+			if (ret)
+				break;
+			o = parse_object(t->tagged->sha1);
+			if (!o)
+				ret = error("Could not read object %s",
+					    sha1_to_hex(t->tagged->sha1));
+			objects[i].item = o;
 			i--;
 			break;
 		}
diff --git a/builtin-pack-objects.c b/builtin-pack-objects.c
index 67eefa2932..cedef52fd3 100644
--- a/builtin-pack-objects.c
+++ b/builtin-pack-objects.c
@@ -535,6 +535,7 @@ static void write_pack_file(void)
 
 			snprintf(tmpname, sizeof(tmpname), "%s-%s.pack",
 				 base_name, sha1_to_hex(sha1));
+			free_pack_by_name(tmpname);
 			if (adjust_perm(pack_tmp_name, mode))
 				die("unable to make temporary pack file readable: %s",
 				    strerror(errno));
diff --git a/cache.h b/cache.h
index f15b3fc906..231c06d772 100644
--- a/cache.h
+++ b/cache.h
@@ -820,6 +820,7 @@ extern int open_pack_index(struct packed_git *);
 extern unsigned char* use_pack(struct packed_git *, struct pack_window **, off_t, unsigned int *);
 extern void close_pack_windows(struct packed_git *);
 extern void unuse_pack(struct pack_window **);
+extern void free_pack_by_name(const char *);
 extern struct packed_git *add_packed_git(const char *, int, int);
 extern const unsigned char *nth_packed_object_sha1(struct packed_git *, uint32_t);
 extern off_t nth_packed_object_offset(const struct packed_git *, uint32_t);
diff --git a/config.c b/config.c
index d2fc8f5f22..790405a213 100644
--- a/config.c
+++ b/config.c
@@ -636,10 +636,7 @@ int git_config(config_fn_t fn, void *data)
 	char *repo_config = NULL;
 	const char *home = NULL;
 
-	/* $GIT_CONFIG makes git read _only_ the given config file,
-	 * $GIT_CONFIG_LOCAL will make it process it in addition to the
-	 * global config file, the same way it would the per-repository
-	 * config file otherwise. */
+	/* Setting $GIT_CONFIG makes git read _only_ the given config file. */
 	if (config_exclusive_filename)
 		return git_config_from_file(fn, config_exclusive_filename, data);
 	if (git_config_system() && !access(git_etc_gitconfig(), R_OK))
diff --git a/contrib/completion/git-completion.bash b/contrib/completion/git-completion.bash
index c79c98ffec..e00454983e 100755
--- a/contrib/completion/git-completion.bash
+++ b/contrib/completion/git-completion.bash
@@ -1155,7 +1155,7 @@ _git_config ()
 		;;
 	color.*.*)
 		__gitcomp "
-			black red green yellow blue magenta cyan white
+			normal black red green yellow blue magenta cyan white
 			bold dim ul blink reverse
 			"
 		return
@@ -1179,7 +1179,7 @@ _git_config ()
 	branch.*.*)
 		local pfx="${cur%.*}."
 		cur="${cur##*.}"
-		__gitcomp "remote merge" "$pfx" "$cur"
+		__gitcomp "remote merge mergeoptions" "$pfx" "$cur"
 		return
 		;;
 	branch.*)
@@ -1192,7 +1192,7 @@ _git_config ()
 		local pfx="${cur%.*}."
 		cur="${cur##*.}"
 		__gitcomp "
-			url fetch push skipDefaultUpdate
+			url proxy fetch push mirror skipDefaultUpdate
 			receivepack uploadpack tagopt
 			" "$pfx" "$cur"
 		return
@@ -1206,85 +1206,161 @@ _git_config ()
 	esac
 	__gitcomp "
 		apply.whitespace
-		core.fileMode
-		core.gitProxy
-		core.ignoreStat
-		core.preferSymlinkRefs
-		core.logAllRefUpdates
-		core.loosecompression
-		core.repositoryFormatVersion
-		core.sharedRepository
-		core.warnAmbiguousRefs
-		core.compression
-		core.packedGitWindowSize
-		core.packedGitLimit
+		branch.autosetupmerge
+		branch.autosetuprebase
 		clean.requireForce
 		color.branch
 		color.branch.current
 		color.branch.local
-		color.branch.remote
 		color.branch.plain
+		color.branch.remote
 		color.diff
-		color.diff.plain
-		color.diff.meta
-		color.diff.frag
-		color.diff.old
-		color.diff.new
 		color.diff.commit
+		color.diff.frag
+		color.diff.meta
+		color.diff.new
+		color.diff.old
+		color.diff.plain
 		color.diff.whitespace
+		color.interactive
+		color.interactive.header
+		color.interactive.help
+		color.interactive.prompt
 		color.pager
 		color.status
-		color.status.header
 		color.status.added
 		color.status.changed
+		color.status.header
+		color.status.nobranch
 		color.status.untracked
+		color.status.updated
+		color.ui
+		commit.template
+		core.autocrlf
+		core.bare
+		core.compression
+		core.deltaBaseCacheLimit
+		core.editor
+		core.excludesfile
+		core.fileMode
+		core.fsyncobjectfiles
+		core.gitProxy
+		core.ignoreCygwinFSTricks
+		core.ignoreStat
+		core.logAllRefUpdates
+		core.loosecompression
+		core.packedGitLimit
+		core.packedGitWindowSize
+		core.pager
+		core.preferSymlinkRefs
+		core.preloadindex
+		core.quotepath
+		core.repositoryFormatVersion
+		core.safecrlf
+		core.sharedRepository
+		core.symlinks
+		core.trustctime
+		core.warnAmbiguousRefs
+		core.whitespace
+		core.worktree
+		diff.autorefreshindex
+		diff.external
+		diff.mnemonicprefix
 		diff.renameLimit
+		diff.renameLimit.
 		diff.renames
 		fetch.unpackLimit
 		format.headers
-		format.subjectprefix
-		gitcvs.enabled
-		gitcvs.logfile
-		gitcvs.allbinary
-		gitcvs.dbname gitcvs.dbdriver gitcvs.dbuser gitcvs.dbpass
-		gitcvs.dbtablenameprefix
+		format.numbered
+		format.pretty
+		format.suffix
+		gc.aggressiveWindow
+		gc.auto
+		gc.autopacklimit
 		gc.packrefs
+		gc.pruneexpire
 		gc.reflogexpire
 		gc.reflogexpireunreachable
 		gc.rerereresolved
 		gc.rerereunresolved
-		http.sslVerify
-		http.sslCert
-		http.sslKey
-		http.sslCAInfo
-		http.sslCAPath
-		http.maxRequests
+		gitcvs.allbinary
+		gitcvs.dbTableNamePrefix
+		gitcvs.dbdriver
+		gitcvs.dbname
+		gitcvs.dbpass
+		gitcvs.dbuser
+		gitcvs.enabled
+		gitcvs.logfile
+		gitcvs.usecrlfattr
+		gui.blamehistoryctx
+		gui.commitmsgwidth
+		gui.copyblamethreshold
+		gui.diffcontext
+		gui.encoding
+		gui.fastcopyblame
+		gui.matchtrackingbranch
+		gui.newbranchtemplate
+		gui.pruneduringfetch
+		gui.spellingdictionary
+		gui.trustmtime
+		help.autocorrect
+		help.browser
+		help.format
 		http.lowSpeedLimit
 		http.lowSpeedTime
+		http.maxRequests
 		http.noEPSV
+		http.proxy
+		http.sslCAInfo
+		http.sslCAPath
+		http.sslCert
+		http.sslKey
+		http.sslVerify
 		i18n.commitEncoding
 		i18n.logOutputEncoding
+		instaweb.browser
+		instaweb.httpd
+		instaweb.local
+		instaweb.modulepath
+		instaweb.port
+		log.date
 		log.showroot
+		man.viewer
+		merge.conflictstyle
+		merge.log
+		merge.renameLimit
+		merge.stat
 		merge.tool
-		merge.summary
 		merge.verbosity
-		pack.window
-		pack.depth
-		pack.windowMemory
+		mergetool.keepBackup
 		pack.compression
-		pack.deltaCacheSize
 		pack.deltaCacheLimit
+		pack.deltaCacheSize
+		pack.depth
+		pack.indexVersion
+		pack.packSizeLimit
+		pack.threads
+		pack.window
+		pack.windowMemory
 		pull.octopus
 		pull.twohead
-		repack.useDeltaBaseOffset
+		receive.denyCurrentBranch
+		receive.denyDeletes
+		receive.denyNonFastForwards
+		receive.fsckObjects
+		receive.unpackLimit
+		repack.usedeltabaseoffset
+		rerere.autoupdate
+		rerere.enabled
 		showbranch.default
+		status.relativePaths
+		status.showUntrackedFiles
 		tar.umask
 		transfer.unpackLimit
-		receive.unpackLimit
-		receive.denyNonFastForwards
-		user.name
 		user.email
+		user.name
 		user.signingkey
+		web.browser
 		branch. remote.
 	"
 }
diff --git a/contrib/fast-import/git-p4 b/contrib/fast-import/git-p4
index ee504e90ed..a85a7b2a58 100755
--- a/contrib/fast-import/git-p4
+++ b/contrib/fast-import/git-p4
@@ -249,9 +249,16 @@ def p4Where(depotPath):
     outputList = p4CmdList("where %s" % depotPath)
     output = None
     for entry in outputList:
-        if entry["depotFile"] == depotPath:
-            output = entry
-            break
+        if "depotFile" in entry:
+            if entry["depotFile"] == depotPath:
+                output = entry
+                break
+        elif "data" in entry:
+            data = entry.get("data")
+            space = data.find(" ")
+            if data[:space] == depotPath:
+                output = entry
+                break
     if output == None:
         return ""
     if output["code"] == "error":
diff --git a/diff.c b/diff.c
index f644947c82..afefe087bb 100644
--- a/diff.c
+++ b/diff.c
@@ -229,6 +229,8 @@ static void emit_rewrite_diff(const char *name_a,
 			      const char *name_b,
 			      struct diff_filespec *one,
 			      struct diff_filespec *two,
+			      const char *textconv_one,
+			      const char *textconv_two,
 			      struct diff_options *o)
 {
 	int lc_a, lc_b;
@@ -241,6 +243,8 @@ static void emit_rewrite_diff(const char *name_a,
 	const char *reset = diff_get_color(color_diff, DIFF_RESET);
 	static struct strbuf a_name = STRBUF_INIT, b_name = STRBUF_INIT;
 	const char *a_prefix, *b_prefix;
+	const char *data_one, *data_two;
+	size_t size_one, size_two;
 
 	if (diff_mnemonic_prefix && DIFF_OPT_TST(o, REVERSE_DIFF)) {
 		a_prefix = o->b_prefix;
@@ -262,8 +266,27 @@ static void emit_rewrite_diff(const char *name_a,
 
 	diff_populate_filespec(one, 0);
 	diff_populate_filespec(two, 0);
-	lc_a = count_lines(one->data, one->size);
-	lc_b = count_lines(two->data, two->size);
+	if (textconv_one) {
+		data_one = run_textconv(textconv_one, one, &size_one);
+		if (!data_one)
+			die("unable to read files to diff");
+	}
+	else {
+		data_one = one->data;
+		size_one = one->size;
+	}
+	if (textconv_two) {
+		data_two = run_textconv(textconv_two, two, &size_two);
+		if (!data_two)
+			die("unable to read files to diff");
+	}
+	else {
+		data_two = two->data;
+		size_two = two->size;
+	}
+
+	lc_a = count_lines(data_one, size_one);
+	lc_b = count_lines(data_two, size_two);
 	fprintf(o->file,
 		"%s--- %s%s%s\n%s+++ %s%s%s\n%s@@ -",
 		metainfo, a_name.buf, name_a_tab, reset,
@@ -273,9 +296,9 @@ static void emit_rewrite_diff(const char *name_a,
 	print_line_count(o->file, lc_b);
 	fprintf(o->file, " @@%s\n", reset);
 	if (lc_a)
-		copy_file_with_prefix(o->file, '-', one->data, one->size, old, reset);
+		copy_file_with_prefix(o->file, '-', data_one, size_one, old, reset);
 	if (lc_b)
-		copy_file_with_prefix(o->file, '+', two->data, two->size, new, reset);
+		copy_file_with_prefix(o->file, '+', data_two, size_two, new, reset);
 }
 
 static int fill_mmfile(mmfile_t *mf, struct diff_filespec *one)
@@ -1334,6 +1357,11 @@ static void builtin_diff(const char *name_a,
 	const char *a_prefix, *b_prefix;
 	const char *textconv_one = NULL, *textconv_two = NULL;
 
+	if (DIFF_OPT_TST(o, ALLOW_TEXTCONV)) {
+		textconv_one = get_textconv(one);
+		textconv_two = get_textconv(two);
+	}
+
 	diff_set_mnemonic_prefix(o, "a/", "b/");
 	if (DIFF_OPT_TST(o, REVERSE_DIFF)) {
 		a_prefix = o->b_prefix;
@@ -1376,8 +1404,11 @@ static void builtin_diff(const char *name_a,
 		 */
 		if ((one->mode ^ two->mode) & S_IFMT)
 			goto free_ab_and_return;
-		if (complete_rewrite) {
-			emit_rewrite_diff(name_a, name_b, one, two, o);
+		if (complete_rewrite &&
+		    (textconv_one || !diff_filespec_is_binary(one)) &&
+		    (textconv_two || !diff_filespec_is_binary(two))) {
+			emit_rewrite_diff(name_a, name_b, one, two,
+						textconv_one, textconv_two, o);
 			o->found_changes = 1;
 			goto free_ab_and_return;
 		}
@@ -1386,11 +1417,6 @@ static void builtin_diff(const char *name_a,
 	if (fill_mmfile(&mf1, one) < 0 || fill_mmfile(&mf2, two) < 0)
 		die("unable to read files to diff");
 
-	if (DIFF_OPT_TST(o, ALLOW_TEXTCONV)) {
-		textconv_one = get_textconv(one);
-		textconv_two = get_textconv(two);
-	}
-
 	if (!DIFF_OPT_TST(o, TEXT) &&
 	    ( (diff_filespec_is_binary(one) && !textconv_one) ||
 	      (diff_filespec_is_binary(two) && !textconv_two) )) {
@@ -2477,6 +2503,10 @@ int diff_opt_parse(struct diff_options *options, const char **av, int ac)
 		DIFF_OPT_SET(options, ALLOW_EXTERNAL);
 	else if (!strcmp(arg, "--no-ext-diff"))
 		DIFF_OPT_CLR(options, ALLOW_EXTERNAL);
+	else if (!strcmp(arg, "--textconv"))
+		DIFF_OPT_SET(options, ALLOW_TEXTCONV);
+	else if (!strcmp(arg, "--no-textconv"))
+		DIFF_OPT_CLR(options, ALLOW_TEXTCONV);
 	else if (!strcmp(arg, "--ignore-submodules"))
 		DIFF_OPT_SET(options, IGNORE_SUBMODULES);
 
diff --git a/fast-import.c b/fast-import.c
index 3c035a5788..201d4ffa13 100644
--- a/fast-import.c
+++ b/fast-import.c
@@ -554,6 +554,10 @@ static void *pool_alloc(size_t len)
 	struct mem_pool *p;
 	void *r;
 
+	/* round up to a 'uintmax_t' alignment */
+	if (len & (sizeof(uintmax_t) - 1))
+		len += sizeof(uintmax_t) - (len & (sizeof(uintmax_t) - 1));
+
 	for (p = mem_pool; p; p = p->next_pool)
 		if ((p->end - p->next_free >= len))
 			break;
@@ -572,9 +576,6 @@ static void *pool_alloc(size_t len)
 	}
 
 	r = p->next_free;
-	/* round out to a 'uintmax_t' alignment */
-	if (len & (sizeof(uintmax_t) - 1))
-		len += sizeof(uintmax_t) - (len & (sizeof(uintmax_t) - 1));
 	p->next_free += len;
 	return r;
 }
@@ -982,8 +983,10 @@ static void end_packfile(void)
 
 		pack_id++;
 	}
-	else
+	else {
+		close(old_p->pack_fd);
 		unlink(old_p->pack_name);
+	}
 	free(old_p);
 
 	/* We can't carry a delta across packfiles. */
diff --git a/git-rebase.sh b/git-rebase.sh
index ea7720d3e2..ebd4df3a0e 100755
--- a/git-rebase.sh
+++ b/git-rebase.sh
@@ -332,11 +332,14 @@ else
 fi
 
 # The tree must be really really clean.
-git update-index --ignore-submodules --refresh || exit
+if ! git update-index --ignore-submodules --refresh; then
+	echo >&2 "cannot rebase: you have unstaged changes"
+	exit 1
+fi
 diff=$(git diff-index --cached --name-status -r --ignore-submodules HEAD --)
 case "$diff" in
-?*)	echo "cannot rebase: your index is not up-to-date"
-	echo "$diff"
+?*)	echo >&2 "cannot rebase: your index contains uncommitted changes"
+	echo >&2 "$diff"
 	exit 1
 	;;
 esac
diff --git a/git-svn.perl b/git-svn.perl
index e64e97b4de..ad01e182df 100755
--- a/git-svn.perl
+++ b/git-svn.perl
@@ -2403,12 +2403,20 @@ sub find_parent_branch {
 		$gs = Git::SVN->init($u, $p, $repo_id, $ref_id, 1);
 	}
 	my ($r0, $parent) = $gs->find_rev_before($r, 1);
-	if (!defined $r0 || !defined $parent) {
-		my ($base, $head) = parse_revision_argument(0, $r);
-		if ($base <= $r) {
+	{
+		my ($base, $head);
+		if (!defined $r0 || !defined $parent) {
+			($base, $head) = parse_revision_argument(0, $r);
+		} else {
+			if ($r0 < $r) {
+				$gs->ra->get_log([$gs->{path}], $r0 + 1, $r, 1,
+					0, 1, sub { $base = $_[1] - 1 });
+			}
+		}
+		if (defined $base && $base <= $r) {
 			$gs->fetch($base, $r);
 		}
-		($r0, $parent) = $gs->last_rev_commit;
+		($r0, $parent) = $gs->find_rev_before($r, 1);
 	}
 	if (defined $r0 && defined $parent) {
 		print STDERR "Found branch parent: ($self->{ref_id}) $parent\n";
@@ -5007,8 +5015,7 @@ sub minimize_connections {
 		}
 	}
 	if (@emptied) {
-		my $file = $ENV{GIT_CONFIG} || $ENV{GIT_CONFIG_LOCAL} ||
-		           "$ENV{GIT_DIR}/config";
+		my $file = $ENV{GIT_CONFIG} || "$ENV{GIT_DIR}/config";
 		print STDERR <<EOF;
 The following [svn-remote] sections in your config file ($file) are empty
 and can be safely removed:
diff --git a/gitweb/gitweb.perl b/gitweb/gitweb.perl
index 951739210a..6eb370d8de 100755
--- a/gitweb/gitweb.perl
+++ b/gitweb/gitweb.perl
@@ -2764,7 +2764,7 @@ sub insert_file {
 	my $filename = shift;
 
 	open my $fd, '<', $filename;
-	print map(to_utf8, <$fd>);
+	print map { to_utf8($_) } <$fd>;
 	close $fd;
 }
 
diff --git a/pager.c b/pager.c
index aa0966c9c5..f19ddbc87d 100644
--- a/pager.c
+++ b/pager.c
@@ -70,7 +70,8 @@ void setup_pager(void)
 
 	/* original process continues, but writes to the pipe */
 	dup2(pager_process.in, 1);
-	dup2(pager_process.in, 2);
+	if (isatty(2))
+		dup2(pager_process.in, 2);
 	close(pager_process.in);
 
 	/* this makes sure that the parent terminates after the pager */
diff --git a/read-cache.c b/read-cache.c
index 8579663ee0..c14b562313 100644
--- a/read-cache.c
+++ b/read-cache.c
@@ -1527,7 +1527,7 @@ int write_index(const struct index_state *istate, int newfd)
 
 /*
  * Read the index file that is potentially unmerged into given
- * index_state, dropping any unmerged entries.  Returns true is
+ * index_state, dropping any unmerged entries.  Returns true if
  * the index is unmerged.  Callers who want to refuse to work
  * from an unmerged state can call this and check its return value,
  * instead of calling read_cache().
diff --git a/sha1_file.c b/sha1_file.c
index 6c0e251e02..0e021c5eca 100644
--- a/sha1_file.c
+++ b/sha1_file.c
@@ -672,6 +672,37 @@ void unuse_pack(struct pack_window **w_cursor)
 	}
 }
 
+/*
+ * This is used by git-repack in case a newly created pack happens to
+ * contain the same set of objects as an existing one.  In that case
+ * the resulting file might be different even if its name would be the
+ * same.  It is best to close any reference to the old pack before it is
+ * replaced on disk.  Of course no index pointers nor windows for given pack
+ * must subsist at this point.  If ever objects from this pack are requested
+ * again, the new version of the pack will be reinitialized through
+ * reprepare_packed_git().
+ */
+void free_pack_by_name(const char *pack_name)
+{
+	struct packed_git *p, **pp = &packed_git;
+
+	while (*pp) {
+		p = *pp;
+		if (strcmp(pack_name, p->pack_name) == 0) {
+			close_pack_windows(p);
+			if (p->pack_fd != -1)
+				close(p->pack_fd);
+			if (p->index_data)
+				munmap((void *)p->index_data, p->index_size);
+			free(p->bad_object_sha1);
+			*pp = p->next;
+			free(p);
+			return;
+		}
+		pp = &p->next;
+	}
+}
+
 /*
  * Do not call this directly as this leaks p->pack_fd on error return;
  * call open_packed_git() instead.
diff --git a/t/t3200-branch.sh b/t/t3200-branch.sh
index a583220469..afc69238be 100755
--- a/t/t3200-branch.sh
+++ b/t/t3200-branch.sh
@@ -196,7 +196,8 @@ test_expect_success 'test deleting branch deletes branch config' \
 
 test_expect_success 'test deleting branch without config' \
     'git branch my7 s &&
-     test "$(git branch -d my7 2>&1)" = "Deleted branch my7."'
+     sha1=$(git rev-parse my7 | cut -c 1-7) &&
+     test "$(git branch -d my7 2>&1)" = "Deleted branch my7 ($sha1)."'
 
 test_expect_success 'test --track without .fetch entries' \
     'git branch --track my8 &&
diff --git a/t/t4031-diff-rewrite-binary.sh b/t/t4031-diff-rewrite-binary.sh
new file mode 100755
index 0000000000..a894c60622
--- /dev/null
+++ b/t/t4031-diff-rewrite-binary.sh
@@ -0,0 +1,67 @@
+#!/bin/sh
+
+test_description='rewrite diff on binary file'
+
+. ./test-lib.sh
+
+# We must be large enough to meet the MINIMUM_BREAK_SIZE
+# requirement.
+make_file() {
+	# common first line to help identify rewrite versus regular diff
+	printf "=\n" >file
+	for i in 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10
+	do
+		for j in 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9
+		do
+			for k in 1 2 3 4 5
+			do
+				printf "$1\n"
+			done
+		done
+	done >>file
+}
+
+test_expect_success 'create binary file with changes' '
+	make_file "\\0" &&
+	git add file &&
+	make_file "\\01"
+'
+
+test_expect_success 'vanilla diff is binary' '
+	git diff >diff &&
+	grep "Binary files a/file and b/file differ" diff
+'
+
+test_expect_success 'rewrite diff is binary' '
+	git diff -B >diff &&
+	grep "dissimilarity index" diff &&
+	grep "Binary files a/file and b/file differ" diff
+'
+
+test_expect_success 'rewrite diff can show binary patch' '
+	git diff -B --binary >diff &&
+	grep "dissimilarity index" diff &&
+	grep "GIT binary patch" diff
+'
+
+{
+	echo "#!$SHELL_PATH"
+	cat <<'EOF'
+perl -e '$/ = undef; $_ = <>; s/./ord($&)/ge; print $_' < "$1"
+EOF
+} >dump
+chmod +x dump
+
+test_expect_success 'setup textconv' '
+	echo file diff=foo >.gitattributes &&
+	git config diff.foo.textconv "$PWD"/dump
+'
+
+test_expect_success 'rewrite diff respects textconv' '
+	git diff -B >diff &&
+	grep "dissimilarity index" diff &&
+	grep "^-61" diff &&
+	grep "^-0" diff
+'
+
+test_done
diff --git a/t/t5400-send-pack.sh b/t/t5400-send-pack.sh
index da69f087b4..b21317d685 100755
--- a/t/t5400-send-pack.sh
+++ b/t/t5400-send-pack.sh
@@ -99,7 +99,7 @@ test_expect_success \
 	! test -f victim/.git/refs/heads/extra
 '
 
-unset GIT_CONFIG GIT_CONFIG_LOCAL
+unset GIT_CONFIG
 HOME=`pwd`/no-such-directory
 export HOME ;# this way we force the victim/.git/config to be used.
 
diff --git a/t/t7007-show.sh b/t/t7007-show.sh
new file mode 100755
index 0000000000..cce222f052
--- /dev/null
+++ b/t/t7007-show.sh
@@ -0,0 +1,20 @@
+#!/bin/sh
+
+test_description='git show'
+
+. ./test-lib.sh
+
+test_expect_success setup '
+	echo hello world >foo &&
+	H=$(git hash-object -w foo) &&
+	git tag -a foo-tag -m "Tags $H" $H &&
+	HH=$(expr "$H" : "\(..\)") &&
+	H38=$(expr "$H" : "..\(.*\)") &&
+	rm -f .git/objects/$HH/$H38
+'
+
+test_expect_success 'showing a tag that point at a missing object' '
+	test_must_fail git --no-pager show foo-tag
+'
+
+test_done
diff --git a/t/t9104-git-svn-follow-parent.sh b/t/t9104-git-svn-follow-parent.sh
index 0a091e048e..ab9fa32220 100755
--- a/t/t9104-git-svn-follow-parent.sh
+++ b/t/t9104-git-svn-follow-parent.sh
@@ -149,6 +149,48 @@ test_expect_success "track initial change if it was only made to parent" '
 	     "`git rev-parse r9270-d~1`"
 	'
 
+test_expect_success "follow-parent is atomic" '
+	(
+		cd wc &&
+		svn up &&
+		svn mkdir stunk &&
+		echo "trunk stunk" > stunk/readme &&
+		svn add stunk/readme &&
+		svn ci -m "trunk stunk" &&
+		echo "stunk like junk" >> stunk/readme &&
+		svn ci -m "really stunk" &&
+		echo "stink stank stunk" >> stunk/readme &&
+		svn ci -m "even the grinch agrees"
+	) &&
+	svn copy -m "stunk flunked" "$svnrepo"/stunk "$svnrepo"/flunk &&
+	{ svn cp -m "early stunk flunked too" \
+		"$svnrepo"/stunk@17 "$svnrepo"/flunked ||
+	svn cp -m "early stunk flunked too" \
+		-r17 "$svnrepo"/stunk "$svnrepo"/flunked; } &&
+	git svn init --minimize-url -i stunk "$svnrepo"/stunk &&
+	git svn fetch -i stunk &&
+	git update-ref refs/remotes/flunk@18 refs/remotes/stunk~2 &&
+	git update-ref -d refs/remotes/stunk &&
+	git config --unset svn-remote.svn.fetch stunk &&
+	mkdir -p "$GIT_DIR"/svn/flunk@18 &&
+	rev_map=$(cd "$GIT_DIR"/svn/stunk && ls .rev_map*) &&
+	dd if="$GIT_DIR"/svn/stunk/$rev_map \
+	   of="$GIT_DIR"/svn/flunk@18/$rev_map bs=24 count=1 &&
+	rm -rf "$GIT_DIR"/svn/stunk &&
+	git svn init --minimize-url -i flunk "$svnrepo"/flunk &&
+	git svn fetch -i flunk &&
+	git svn init --minimize-url -i stunk "$svnrepo"/stunk &&
+	git svn fetch -i stunk &&
+	git svn init --minimize-url -i flunked "$svnrepo"/flunked &&
+	git svn fetch -i flunked
+	test "`git rev-parse --verify refs/remotes/flunk@18`" \
+	   = "`git rev-parse --verify refs/remotes/stunk`" &&
+	test "`git rev-parse --verify refs/remotes/flunk~1`" \
+	   = "`git rev-parse --verify refs/remotes/stunk`" &&
+	test "`git rev-parse --verify refs/remotes/flunked~1`" \
+	   = "`git rev-parse --verify refs/remotes/stunk~1`"
+	'
+
 test_expect_success "track multi-parent paths" '
 	svn cp -m "resurrect /glob" "$svnrepo"/r9270 "$svnrepo"/glob &&
 	git svn multi-fetch &&
diff --git a/t/t9500-gitweb-standalone-no-errors.sh b/t/t9500-gitweb-standalone-no-errors.sh
index 64c4cce58b..43cd6eecba 100755
--- a/t/t9500-gitweb-standalone-no-errors.sh
+++ b/t/t9500-gitweb-standalone-no-errors.sh
@@ -673,4 +673,14 @@ test_expect_success \
 	 gitweb_run "p=.git;a=tree"'
 test_debug 'cat gitweb.log'
 
+# ----------------------------------------------------------------------
+# non-ASCII in README.html
+
+test_expect_success \
+	'README.html with non-ASCII characters (utf-8)' \
+	'echo "<b>UTF-8 example:</b><br />" > .git/README.html &&
+	 cat "$TEST_DIRECTORY"/t3900/1-UTF-8.txt >> .git/README.html &&
+	 gitweb_run "p=.git;a=summary"'
+test_debug 'cat gitweb.log'
+
 test_done
diff --git a/t/test-lib.sh b/t/test-lib.sh
index e778035729..cce3636c1b 100644
--- a/t/test-lib.sh
+++ b/t/test-lib.sh
@@ -471,7 +471,6 @@ PATH=$TEST_DIRECTORY/..:$PATH
 GIT_EXEC_PATH=$(pwd)/..
 GIT_TEMPLATE_DIR=$(pwd)/../templates/blt
 unset GIT_CONFIG
-unset GIT_CONFIG_LOCAL
 GIT_CONFIG_NOSYSTEM=1
 GIT_CONFIG_NOGLOBAL=1
 export PATH GIT_EXEC_PATH GIT_TEMPLATE_DIR GIT_CONFIG_NOSYSTEM GIT_CONFIG_NOGLOBAL
diff --git a/wt-status.c b/wt-status.c
index 3edae43ce9..96ff2f8f56 100644
--- a/wt-status.c
+++ b/wt-status.c
@@ -279,11 +279,11 @@ static void wt_status_print_verbose(struct wt_status *s)
 	struct rev_info rev;
 
 	init_revisions(&rev, NULL);
+	DIFF_OPT_SET(&rev.diffopt, ALLOW_TEXTCONV);
 	setup_revisions(0, NULL, &rev,
 		s->is_initial ? EMPTY_TREE_SHA1_HEX : s->reference);
 	rev.diffopt.output_format |= DIFF_FORMAT_PATCH;
 	rev.diffopt.detect_rename = 1;
-	DIFF_OPT_SET(&rev.diffopt, ALLOW_TEXTCONV);
 	rev.diffopt.file = s->fp;
 	rev.diffopt.close_file = 0;
 	/*