225 files changed, 1749 insertions, 658 deletions

diff --git a/Documentation/CodingGuidelines b/Documentation/CodingGuidelines
index b8bf618..46f8a3f 100644
--- a/Documentation/CodingGuidelines
+++ b/Documentation/CodingGuidelines
@@ -31,25 +31,36 @@ But if you must have a list of rules, here they are.
 
 For shell scripts specifically (not exhaustive):
 
+ - We use tabs for indentation.
+
+ - Case arms are indented at the same depth as case and esac lines.
+
  - We prefer $( ... ) for command substitution; unlike ``, it
    properly nests.  It should have been the way Bourne spelled
    it from day one, but unfortunately isn't.
 
- - We use ${parameter-word} and its [-=?+] siblings, and their
-   colon'ed "unset or null" form.
+ - We use POSIX compliant parameter substitutions and avoid bashisms;
+   namely:
 
- - We use ${parameter#word} and its [#%] siblings, and their
-   doubled "longest matching" form.
+   - We use ${parameter-word} and its [-=?+] siblings, and their
+     colon'ed "unset or null" form.
 
- - We use Arithmetic Expansion $(( ... )).
+   - We use ${parameter#word} and its [#%] siblings, and their
+     doubled "longest matching" form.
 
- - No "Substring Expansion" ${parameter:offset:length}.
+   - No "Substring Expansion" ${parameter:offset:length}.
 
- - No shell arrays.
+   - No shell arrays.
 
- - No strlen ${#parameter}.
+   - No strlen ${#parameter}.
+
+   - No pattern replacement ${parameter/pattern/string}.
+
+ - We use Arithmetic Expansion $(( ... )).
 
- - No regexp ${parameter/pattern/string}.
+ - Inside Arithmetic Expansion, spell shell variables with $ in front
+   of them, as some shells do not grok $((x)) while accepting $(($x))
+   just fine (e.g. dash older than 0.5.4).
 
  - We do not use Process Substitution <(list) or >(list).
 
diff --git a/Documentation/Makefile b/Documentation/Makefile
index a4c4063..e117bc4 100644
--- a/Documentation/Makefile
+++ b/Documentation/Makefile
@@ -279,7 +279,7 @@ $(patsubst %,%.html,$(API_DOCS) technical/api-index): %.html : %.txt
 XSLT = docbook.xsl
 XSLTOPTS = --xinclude --stringparam html.stylesheet docbook-xsl.css
 
-user-manual.html: user-manual.xml
+user-manual.html: user-manual.xml $(XSLT)
 	$(QUIET_XSLTPROC)$(RM) $@+ $@ && \
 	xsltproc $(XSLTOPTS) -o $@+ $(XSLT) $< && \
 	mv $@+ $@
diff --git a/Documentation/RelNotes-1.5.0.1.txt b/Documentation/RelNotes/1.5.0.1.txt
index fea3f99..fea3f99 100644
--- a/Documentation/RelNotes-1.5.0.1.txt
+++ b/Documentation/RelNotes/1.5.0.1.txt
diff --git a/Documentation/RelNotes-1.5.0.2.txt b/Documentation/RelNotes/1.5.0.2.txt
index b061e50..b061e50 100644
--- a/Documentation/RelNotes-1.5.0.2.txt
+++ b/Documentation/RelNotes/1.5.0.2.txt
diff --git a/Documentation/RelNotes-1.5.0.3.txt b/Documentation/RelNotes/1.5.0.3.txt
index cd500f9..cd500f9 100644
--- a/Documentation/RelNotes-1.5.0.3.txt
+++ b/Documentation/RelNotes/1.5.0.3.txt
diff --git a/Documentation/RelNotes-1.5.0.4.txt b/Documentation/RelNotes/1.5.0.4.txt
index feefa5d..feefa5d 100644
--- a/Documentation/RelNotes-1.5.0.4.txt
+++ b/Documentation/RelNotes/1.5.0.4.txt
diff --git a/Documentation/RelNotes-1.5.0.5.txt b/Documentation/RelNotes/1.5.0.5.txt
index eeec3d7..eeec3d7 100644
--- a/Documentation/RelNotes-1.5.0.5.txt
+++ b/Documentation/RelNotes/1.5.0.5.txt
diff --git a/Documentation/RelNotes-1.5.0.6.txt b/Documentation/RelNotes/1.5.0.6.txt
index c02015a..c02015a 100644
--- a/Documentation/RelNotes-1.5.0.6.txt
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diff --git a/Documentation/RelNotes-1.5.0.7.txt b/Documentation/RelNotes/1.5.0.7.txt
index 670ad32..670ad32 100644
--- a/Documentation/RelNotes-1.5.0.7.txt
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diff --git a/Documentation/RelNotes-1.5.0.txt b/Documentation/RelNotes/1.5.0.txt
index daf4bdb..daf4bdb 100644
--- a/Documentation/RelNotes-1.5.0.txt
+++ b/Documentation/RelNotes/1.5.0.txt
diff --git a/Documentation/RelNotes-1.5.1.1.txt b/Documentation/RelNotes/1.5.1.1.txt
index 9147121..9147121 100644
--- a/Documentation/RelNotes-1.5.1.1.txt
+++ b/Documentation/RelNotes/1.5.1.1.txt
diff --git a/Documentation/RelNotes-1.5.1.2.txt b/Documentation/RelNotes/1.5.1.2.txt
index d884563..d884563 100644
--- a/Documentation/RelNotes-1.5.1.2.txt
+++ b/Documentation/RelNotes/1.5.1.2.txt
diff --git a/Documentation/RelNotes-1.5.1.3.txt b/Documentation/RelNotes/1.5.1.3.txt
index 876408b..876408b 100644
--- a/Documentation/RelNotes-1.5.1.3.txt
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diff --git a/Documentation/RelNotes-1.5.1.4.txt b/Documentation/RelNotes/1.5.1.4.txt
index df2f66c..df2f66c 100644
--- a/Documentation/RelNotes-1.5.1.4.txt
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diff --git a/Documentation/RelNotes-1.5.1.5.txt b/Documentation/RelNotes/1.5.1.5.txt
index b0ab8eb..b0ab8eb 100644
--- a/Documentation/RelNotes-1.5.1.5.txt
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diff --git a/Documentation/RelNotes-1.5.1.6.txt b/Documentation/RelNotes/1.5.1.6.txt
index 55f3ac1..55f3ac1 100644
--- a/Documentation/RelNotes-1.5.1.6.txt
+++ b/Documentation/RelNotes/1.5.1.6.txt
diff --git a/Documentation/RelNotes-1.5.1.txt b/Documentation/RelNotes/1.5.1.txt
index daed367..daed367 100644
--- a/Documentation/RelNotes-1.5.1.txt
+++ b/Documentation/RelNotes/1.5.1.txt
diff --git a/Documentation/RelNotes-1.5.2.1.txt b/Documentation/RelNotes/1.5.2.1.txt
index ebf20e2..ebf20e2 100644
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diff --git a/Documentation/RelNotes-1.5.2.2.txt b/Documentation/RelNotes/1.5.2.2.txt
index 7bfa341..7bfa341 100644
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diff --git a/Documentation/RelNotes-1.5.2.3.txt b/Documentation/RelNotes/1.5.2.3.txt
index addb229..addb229 100644
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diff --git a/Documentation/RelNotes-1.5.2.4.txt b/Documentation/RelNotes/1.5.2.4.txt
index 75cff47..75cff47 100644
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+++ b/Documentation/RelNotes/1.5.2.4.txt
diff --git a/Documentation/RelNotes-1.5.2.5.txt b/Documentation/RelNotes/1.5.2.5.txt
index e8281c7..e8281c7 100644
--- a/Documentation/RelNotes-1.5.2.5.txt
+++ b/Documentation/RelNotes/1.5.2.5.txt
diff --git a/Documentation/RelNotes-1.5.2.txt b/Documentation/RelNotes/1.5.2.txt
index e8328d0..e8328d0 100644
--- a/Documentation/RelNotes-1.5.2.txt
+++ b/Documentation/RelNotes/1.5.2.txt
diff --git a/Documentation/RelNotes-1.5.3.1.txt b/Documentation/RelNotes/1.5.3.1.txt
index 7ff546c..7ff546c 100644
--- a/Documentation/RelNotes-1.5.3.1.txt
+++ b/Documentation/RelNotes/1.5.3.1.txt
diff --git a/Documentation/RelNotes-1.5.3.2.txt b/Documentation/RelNotes/1.5.3.2.txt
index 4bbde3c..4bbde3c 100644
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diff --git a/Documentation/RelNotes-1.5.3.3.txt b/Documentation/RelNotes/1.5.3.3.txt
index d213846..d213846 100644
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diff --git a/Documentation/RelNotes-1.5.3.4.txt b/Documentation/RelNotes/1.5.3.4.txt
index b04b3a4..b04b3a4 100644
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diff --git a/Documentation/RelNotes-1.5.3.5.txt b/Documentation/RelNotes/1.5.3.5.txt
index 7ff1d5d..7ff1d5d 100644
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diff --git a/Documentation/RelNotes-1.5.3.6.txt b/Documentation/RelNotes/1.5.3.6.txt
index 069a2b2..069a2b2 100644
--- a/Documentation/RelNotes-1.5.3.6.txt
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diff --git a/Documentation/RelNotes-1.5.3.7.txt b/Documentation/RelNotes/1.5.3.7.txt
index 2f69061..2f69061 100644
--- a/Documentation/RelNotes-1.5.3.7.txt
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diff --git a/Documentation/RelNotes-1.5.3.8.txt b/Documentation/RelNotes/1.5.3.8.txt
index 0e3ff58..0e3ff58 100644
--- a/Documentation/RelNotes-1.5.3.8.txt
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diff --git a/Documentation/RelNotes-1.5.3.txt b/Documentation/RelNotes/1.5.3.txt
index 0668d3c..0668d3c 100644
--- a/Documentation/RelNotes-1.5.3.txt
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diff --git a/Documentation/RelNotes-1.5.4.1.txt b/Documentation/RelNotes/1.5.4.1.txt
index d4e44b8..d4e44b8 100644
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diff --git a/Documentation/RelNotes-1.5.4.2.txt b/Documentation/RelNotes/1.5.4.2.txt
index 21d0df5..21d0df5 100644
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index b0fc67f..b0fc67f 100644
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diff --git a/Documentation/RelNotes-1.5.4.5.txt b/Documentation/RelNotes/1.5.4.5.txt
index bbd130e..bbd130e 100644
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diff --git a/Documentation/RelNotes-1.5.4.6.txt b/Documentation/RelNotes/1.5.4.6.txt
index 3e3c3e5..3e3c3e5 100644
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diff --git a/Documentation/RelNotes-1.5.4.7.txt b/Documentation/RelNotes/1.5.4.7.txt
index 9065a0e..9065a0e 100644
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diff --git a/Documentation/RelNotes-1.5.4.txt b/Documentation/RelNotes/1.5.4.txt
index f1323b6..f1323b6 100644
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+++ b/Documentation/RelNotes/1.5.4.txt
diff --git a/Documentation/RelNotes-1.5.5.1.txt b/Documentation/RelNotes/1.5.5.1.txt
index 7de4197..7de4197 100644
--- a/Documentation/RelNotes-1.5.5.1.txt
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diff --git a/Documentation/RelNotes-1.5.5.2.txt b/Documentation/RelNotes/1.5.5.2.txt
index 391a7b0..391a7b0 100644
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diff --git a/Documentation/RelNotes-1.5.5.3.txt b/Documentation/RelNotes/1.5.5.3.txt
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diff --git a/Documentation/RelNotes-1.5.5.5.txt b/Documentation/RelNotes/1.5.5.5.txt
index 30fa361..30fa361 100644
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diff --git a/Documentation/RelNotes-1.5.5.6.txt b/Documentation/RelNotes/1.5.5.6.txt
index d5e85cb..d5e85cb 100644
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+++ b/Documentation/RelNotes/1.5.5.6.txt
diff --git a/Documentation/RelNotes-1.5.5.txt b/Documentation/RelNotes/1.5.5.txt
index 2932212..2932212 100644
--- a/Documentation/RelNotes-1.5.5.txt
+++ b/Documentation/RelNotes/1.5.5.txt
diff --git a/Documentation/RelNotes-1.5.6.1.txt b/Documentation/RelNotes/1.5.6.1.txt
index 4864b16..4864b16 100644
--- a/Documentation/RelNotes-1.5.6.1.txt
+++ b/Documentation/RelNotes/1.5.6.1.txt
diff --git a/Documentation/RelNotes-1.5.6.2.txt b/Documentation/RelNotes/1.5.6.2.txt
index 5902a85..5902a85 100644
--- a/Documentation/RelNotes-1.5.6.2.txt
+++ b/Documentation/RelNotes/1.5.6.2.txt
diff --git a/Documentation/RelNotes-1.5.6.3.txt b/Documentation/RelNotes/1.5.6.3.txt
index 9426112..f61dd35 100644
--- a/Documentation/RelNotes-1.5.6.3.txt
+++ b/Documentation/RelNotes/1.5.6.3.txt
@@ -4,7 +4,7 @@ GIT v1.5.6.3 Release Notes
 Fixes since v1.5.6.2
 --------------------
 
-* Setting core.sharerepository to traditional "true" value was supposed to make
+* Setting core.sharedrepository to traditional "true" value was supposed to make
   the repository group writable but should not affect permission for others.
   However, since 1.5.6, it was broken to drop permission for others when umask is
   022, making the repository unreadable by others.
diff --git a/Documentation/RelNotes-1.5.6.4.txt b/Documentation/RelNotes/1.5.6.4.txt
index d8968f1..d8968f1 100644
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diff --git a/Documentation/RelNotes-1.5.6.5.txt b/Documentation/RelNotes/1.5.6.5.txt
index 47ca172..47ca172 100644
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+++ b/Documentation/RelNotes/1.5.6.5.txt
diff --git a/Documentation/RelNotes-1.5.6.6.txt b/Documentation/RelNotes/1.5.6.6.txt
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diff --git a/Documentation/RelNotes-1.5.6.txt b/Documentation/RelNotes/1.5.6.txt
index e143d8d..e143d8d 100644
--- a/Documentation/RelNotes-1.5.6.txt
+++ b/Documentation/RelNotes/1.5.6.txt
diff --git a/Documentation/RelNotes-1.6.0.1.txt b/Documentation/RelNotes/1.6.0.1.txt
index 49d7a1c..49d7a1c 100644
--- a/Documentation/RelNotes-1.6.0.1.txt
+++ b/Documentation/RelNotes/1.6.0.1.txt
diff --git a/Documentation/RelNotes-1.6.0.2.txt b/Documentation/RelNotes/1.6.0.2.txt
index 51b32f5..e1e24b3 100644
--- a/Documentation/RelNotes-1.6.0.2.txt
+++ b/Documentation/RelNotes/1.6.0.2.txt
@@ -17,7 +17,7 @@ Fixes since v1.6.0.1
 * Many commands did not use the correct working tree location when used
   with GIT_WORK_TREE environment settings.
 
-* Some systems needs to use compatibility fnmach and regex libraries
+* Some systems need to use compatibility fnmatch and regex libraries
   independent from each other; the compat/ area has been reorganized to
   allow this.
 
diff --git a/Documentation/RelNotes-1.6.0.3.txt b/Documentation/RelNotes/1.6.0.3.txt
index ae05778..ae05778 100644
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diff --git a/Documentation/RelNotes-1.6.0.4.txt b/Documentation/RelNotes/1.6.0.4.txt
index d522661..d522661 100644
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diff --git a/Documentation/RelNotes-1.6.0.5.txt b/Documentation/RelNotes/1.6.0.5.txt
index a08bb96..a08bb96 100644
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diff --git a/Documentation/RelNotes-1.6.0.6.txt b/Documentation/RelNotes/1.6.0.6.txt
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diff --git a/Documentation/RelNotes-1.6.0.txt b/Documentation/RelNotes/1.6.0.txt
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--- a/Documentation/RelNotes-1.6.4.1.txt
+++ b/Documentation/RelNotes/1.6.4.1.txt
diff --git a/Documentation/RelNotes-1.6.4.2.txt b/Documentation/RelNotes/1.6.4.2.txt
index c11ec01..c11ec01 100644
--- a/Documentation/RelNotes-1.6.4.2.txt
+++ b/Documentation/RelNotes/1.6.4.2.txt
diff --git a/Documentation/RelNotes-1.6.4.3.txt b/Documentation/RelNotes/1.6.4.3.txt
index 4f29bab..5643e65 100644
--- a/Documentation/RelNotes-1.6.4.3.txt
+++ b/Documentation/RelNotes/1.6.4.3.txt
@@ -11,7 +11,7 @@ Fixes since v1.6.4.2
   been deprecated.
 
 * "git fetch" and "git clone" had an extra sanity check to verify the
-  presense of the corresponding *.pack file before downloading *.idx
+  presence of the corresponding *.pack file before downloading *.idx
   file by issuing a HEAD request.  Github server however sometimes
   gave 500 (Internal server error) response to HEAD even if a GET
   request for *.pack file to the same URL would have succeeded, and broke
diff --git a/Documentation/RelNotes-1.6.4.4.txt b/Documentation/RelNotes/1.6.4.4.txt
index 0ead45f..0ead45f 100644
--- a/Documentation/RelNotes-1.6.4.4.txt
+++ b/Documentation/RelNotes/1.6.4.4.txt
diff --git a/Documentation/RelNotes-1.6.4.txt b/Documentation/RelNotes/1.6.4.txt
index 7a90441..7a90441 100644
--- a/Documentation/RelNotes-1.6.4.txt
+++ b/Documentation/RelNotes/1.6.4.txt
diff --git a/Documentation/RelNotes-1.6.5.1.txt b/Documentation/RelNotes/1.6.5.1.txt
index 309ba18..309ba18 100644
--- a/Documentation/RelNotes-1.6.5.1.txt
+++ b/Documentation/RelNotes/1.6.5.1.txt
diff --git a/Documentation/RelNotes-1.6.5.2.txt b/Documentation/RelNotes/1.6.5.2.txt
index aa7ccce..aa7ccce 100644
--- a/Documentation/RelNotes-1.6.5.2.txt
+++ b/Documentation/RelNotes/1.6.5.2.txt
diff --git a/Documentation/RelNotes-1.6.5.3.txt b/Documentation/RelNotes/1.6.5.3.txt
index b2fad1b..b2fad1b 100644
--- a/Documentation/RelNotes-1.6.5.3.txt
+++ b/Documentation/RelNotes/1.6.5.3.txt
diff --git a/Documentation/RelNotes-1.6.5.4.txt b/Documentation/RelNotes/1.6.5.4.txt
index e42f8b2..d3a2a3e 100644
--- a/Documentation/RelNotes-1.6.5.4.txt
+++ b/Documentation/RelNotes/1.6.5.4.txt
@@ -26,7 +26,7 @@ Fixes since v1.6.5.3
    future versions, but not in this release,
 
  * "git merge -m <message> <branch>..." added the standard merge message
-   on its own after user-supplied message, which should have overrided the
+   on its own after user-supplied message, which should have overridden the
    standard one.
 
 Other minor documentation updates are included.
diff --git a/Documentation/RelNotes-1.6.5.5.txt b/Documentation/RelNotes/1.6.5.5.txt
index ecfc57d..ecfc57d 100644
--- a/Documentation/RelNotes-1.6.5.5.txt
+++ b/Documentation/RelNotes/1.6.5.5.txt
diff --git a/Documentation/RelNotes-1.6.5.6.txt b/Documentation/RelNotes/1.6.5.6.txt
index a9eaf76..a9eaf76 100644
--- a/Documentation/RelNotes-1.6.5.6.txt
+++ b/Documentation/RelNotes/1.6.5.6.txt
diff --git a/Documentation/RelNotes-1.6.5.7.txt b/Documentation/RelNotes/1.6.5.7.txt
index 5b49ea5..dc5302c 100644
--- a/Documentation/RelNotes-1.6.5.7.txt
+++ b/Documentation/RelNotes/1.6.5.7.txt
@@ -10,7 +10,7 @@ Fixes since v1.6.5.6
   an older version of git should just ignore them.  Instead we diagnosed
   it as an error.
 
-* With help.autocorrect set to non-zero value, the logic to guess typoes
+* With help.autocorrect set to non-zero value, the logic to guess typos
   in the subcommand name misfired and ran a random nonsense command.
 
 * If a command is run with an absolute path as a pathspec inside a bare
diff --git a/Documentation/RelNotes-1.6.5.8.txt b/Documentation/RelNotes/1.6.5.8.txt
index 8b24beb..8b24beb 100644
--- a/Documentation/RelNotes-1.6.5.8.txt
+++ b/Documentation/RelNotes/1.6.5.8.txt
diff --git a/Documentation/RelNotes-1.6.5.txt b/Documentation/RelNotes/1.6.5.txt
index ee141c1..ee141c1 100644
--- a/Documentation/RelNotes-1.6.5.txt
+++ b/Documentation/RelNotes/1.6.5.txt
diff --git a/Documentation/RelNotes-1.6.6.1.txt b/Documentation/RelNotes/1.6.6.1.txt
index f1d0a4a..f1d0a4a 100644
--- a/Documentation/RelNotes-1.6.6.1.txt
+++ b/Documentation/RelNotes/1.6.6.1.txt
diff --git a/Documentation/RelNotes-1.6.6.2.txt b/Documentation/RelNotes/1.6.6.2.txt
index 4eaddc0..4eaddc0 100644
--- a/Documentation/RelNotes-1.6.6.2.txt
+++ b/Documentation/RelNotes/1.6.6.2.txt
diff --git a/Documentation/RelNotes-1.6.6.txt b/Documentation/RelNotes/1.6.6.txt
index 04e205c..c50b59c 100644
--- a/Documentation/RelNotes-1.6.6.txt
+++ b/Documentation/RelNotes/1.6.6.txt
@@ -29,7 +29,7 @@ or adjust to the new behaviour, on the day their sysadmin decides to install
 the new version of git.  When we switched from "git-foo" to "git foo" in
 1.6.0, even though the change had been advertised and the transition
 guide had been provided for a very long time, the users procrastinated
-during the entire transtion period, and ended up panicking on the day
+during the entire transition period, and ended up panicking on the day
 their sysadmins updated their git installation.  We are trying to avoid
 repeating that unpleasantness in the 1.7.0 release.
 
@@ -94,7 +94,7 @@ users will fare this time.
  * "git diff" traditionally treated various "ignore whitespace" options
    only as a way to filter the patch output.  "git diff --exit-code -b"
    exited with non-zero status even if all changes were about changing the
-   ammount of whitespace and nothing else.  and "git diff -b" showed the
+   amount of whitespace and nothing else.  and "git diff -b" showed the
    "diff --git" header line for such a change without patch text.
 
    In 1.7.0, the "ignore whitespaces" will affect the semantics of the
diff --git a/Documentation/RelNotes-1.7.0.1.txt b/Documentation/RelNotes/1.7.0.1.txt
index 8ff5bca..8ff5bca 100644
--- a/Documentation/RelNotes-1.7.0.1.txt
+++ b/Documentation/RelNotes/1.7.0.1.txt
diff --git a/Documentation/RelNotes-1.7.0.2.txt b/Documentation/RelNotes/1.7.0.2.txt
index fcb46ca..fcb46ca 100644
--- a/Documentation/RelNotes-1.7.0.2.txt
+++ b/Documentation/RelNotes/1.7.0.2.txt
diff --git a/Documentation/RelNotes-1.7.0.3.txt b/Documentation/RelNotes/1.7.0.3.txt
index 3b35573..3b35573 100644
--- a/Documentation/RelNotes-1.7.0.3.txt
+++ b/Documentation/RelNotes/1.7.0.3.txt
diff --git a/Documentation/RelNotes-1.7.0.4.txt b/Documentation/RelNotes/1.7.0.4.txt
index cf7f60e..cf7f60e 100644
--- a/Documentation/RelNotes-1.7.0.4.txt
+++ b/Documentation/RelNotes/1.7.0.4.txt
diff --git a/Documentation/RelNotes-1.7.0.5.txt b/Documentation/RelNotes/1.7.0.5.txt
index 3149c91..3149c91 100644
--- a/Documentation/RelNotes-1.7.0.5.txt
+++ b/Documentation/RelNotes/1.7.0.5.txt
diff --git a/Documentation/RelNotes-1.7.0.6.txt b/Documentation/RelNotes/1.7.0.6.txt
index b2852b6..b2852b6 100644
--- a/Documentation/RelNotes-1.7.0.6.txt
+++ b/Documentation/RelNotes/1.7.0.6.txt
diff --git a/Documentation/RelNotes-1.7.0.7.txt b/Documentation/RelNotes/1.7.0.7.txt
index d0cb7ca..d0cb7ca 100644
--- a/Documentation/RelNotes-1.7.0.7.txt
+++ b/Documentation/RelNotes/1.7.0.7.txt
diff --git a/Documentation/RelNotes/1.7.0.8.txt b/Documentation/RelNotes/1.7.0.8.txt
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..7f05b48
--- /dev/null
+++ b/Documentation/RelNotes/1.7.0.8.txt
@@ -0,0 +1,10 @@
+Git v1.7.0.8 Release Notes
+==========================
+
+This is primarily to backport support for the new "add.ignoreErrors"
+name given to the existing "add.ignore-errors" configuration variable.
+
+The next version, Git 1.7.4, and future versions, will support both
+old and incorrect name and the new corrected name, but without this
+backport, users who want to use the new name "add.ignoreErrors" in
+their repositories cannot use older versions of Git.
diff --git a/Documentation/RelNotes-1.7.0.txt b/Documentation/RelNotes/1.7.0.txt
index 43e3f33..0bb8c0b 100644
--- a/Documentation/RelNotes-1.7.0.txt
+++ b/Documentation/RelNotes/1.7.0.txt
@@ -202,7 +202,7 @@ release, unless otherwise noted.
    the branch is fully merged to its upstream branch if it is not merged
    to the current branch.  It now deletes it in such a case.
 
- * "fiter-branch" command incorrectly said --prune-empty and --filter-commit
+ * "filter-branch" command incorrectly said --prune-empty and --filter-commit
    were incompatible; the latter should be read as --commit-filter.
 
  * When using "git status" or asking "git diff" to compare the work tree
diff --git a/Documentation/RelNotes-1.7.1.1.txt b/Documentation/RelNotes/1.7.1.1.txt
index 3f6b314..3f6b314 100644
--- a/Documentation/RelNotes-1.7.1.1.txt
+++ b/Documentation/RelNotes/1.7.1.1.txt
diff --git a/Documentation/RelNotes-1.7.1.2.txt b/Documentation/RelNotes/1.7.1.2.txt
index 61ba14e..61ba14e 100644
--- a/Documentation/RelNotes-1.7.1.2.txt
+++ b/Documentation/RelNotes/1.7.1.2.txt
diff --git a/Documentation/RelNotes/1.7.1.3.txt b/Documentation/RelNotes/1.7.1.3.txt
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..5b18518
--- /dev/null
+++ b/Documentation/RelNotes/1.7.1.3.txt
@@ -0,0 +1,10 @@
+Git v1.7.1.3 Release Notes
+==========================
+
+This is primarily to backport support for the new "add.ignoreErrors"
+name given to the existing "add.ignore-errors" configuration variable.
+
+The next version, Git 1.7.4, and future versions, will support both
+old and incorrect name and the new corrected name, but without this
+backport, users who want to use the new name "add.ignoreErrors" in
+their repositories cannot use older versions of Git.
diff --git a/Documentation/RelNotes-1.7.1.txt b/Documentation/RelNotes/1.7.1.txt
index 9d89fed..9d89fed 100644
--- a/Documentation/RelNotes-1.7.1.txt
+++ b/Documentation/RelNotes/1.7.1.txt
diff --git a/Documentation/RelNotes-1.7.2.1.txt b/Documentation/RelNotes/1.7.2.1.txt
index 1103c47..1103c47 100644
--- a/Documentation/RelNotes-1.7.2.1.txt
+++ b/Documentation/RelNotes/1.7.2.1.txt
diff --git a/Documentation/RelNotes/1.7.2.2.txt b/Documentation/RelNotes/1.7.2.2.txt
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..71eb6a8
--- /dev/null
+++ b/Documentation/RelNotes/1.7.2.2.txt
@@ -0,0 +1,22 @@
+Git v1.7.2.2 Release Notes
+==========================
+
+Fixes since v1.7.2.1
+--------------------
+
+ * Object transfer over smart http transport deadlocked the client when
+   the remote HTTP server returned a failure, instead of erroring it out.
+
+ * git-gui honors custom textconv filters when showing diff and blame;
+
+ * git diff --relative=subdir (without the necessary trailing /) did not
+   work well;
+
+ * "git diff-files -p --submodule" was recently broken;
+
+ * "git checkout -b n ':/token'" did not work;
+
+ * "git index-pack" (hence "git fetch/clone/pull/push") enabled the object
+   replacement machinery by mistake (it never should have);
+
+And other minor fixes and documentation updates.
diff --git a/Documentation/RelNotes/1.7.2.3.txt b/Documentation/RelNotes/1.7.2.3.txt
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..610960c
--- /dev/null
+++ b/Documentation/RelNotes/1.7.2.3.txt
@@ -0,0 +1,39 @@
+Git v1.7.2.3 Release Notes
+==========================
+
+Fixes since v1.7.2.2
+--------------------
+
+ * When people try insane things such as delta-compressing 4GiB files, we
+   threw an assertion failure.
+
+ * "git archive" gave the full commit ID for "$Format:%h$".
+
+ * "git fetch --tags" did not fetch tags when remote.<nick>.tagopt was set
+   to --no-tags.  The command line option now overrides the configuration
+   setting.
+
+ * "git for-each-ref --format='%(objectname:short)'" has been completely
+   broken for a long time.
+
+ * "git gc" incorrectly pruned a rerere record that was created long
+   time ago but still is actively and repeatedly used.
+
+ * "git log --follow -M -p" was seriously broken in 1.7.2, reporting
+   assertion failure.
+
+ * Running "git log" with an incorrect option started pager nevertheless,
+   forcing the user to dismiss it.
+
+ * "git rebase" did not work well when the user has diff.renames
+   configuration variable set.
+
+ * An earlier (and rather old) fix to "git rebase" against a rebased
+   upstream broke a more normal, non rebased upstream case rather badly,
+   attempting to re-apply patches that are already accepted upstream.
+
+ * "git submodule sync" forgot to update the superproject's config file
+   when submodule URL changed.
+
+ * "git pack-refs --all --prune" did not remove a directory that has
+   become empty.
diff --git a/Documentation/RelNotes/1.7.2.4.txt b/Documentation/RelNotes/1.7.2.4.txt
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..f7950a4
--- /dev/null
+++ b/Documentation/RelNotes/1.7.2.4.txt
@@ -0,0 +1,10 @@
+Git v1.7.2.4 Release Notes
+==========================
+
+This is primarily to backport support for the new "add.ignoreErrors"
+name given to the existing "add.ignore-errors" configuration variable.
+
+The next version, Git 1.7.4, and future versions, will support both
+old and incorrect name and the new corrected name, but without this
+backport, users who want to use the new name "add.ignoreErrors" in
+their repositories cannot use older versions of Git.
diff --git a/Documentation/RelNotes-1.7.2.txt b/Documentation/RelNotes/1.7.2.txt
index 15cf011..15cf011 100644
--- a/Documentation/RelNotes-1.7.2.txt
+++ b/Documentation/RelNotes/1.7.2.txt
diff --git a/Documentation/RelNotes/1.7.3.1.txt b/Documentation/RelNotes/1.7.3.1.txt
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..002c93b
--- /dev/null
+++ b/Documentation/RelNotes/1.7.3.1.txt
@@ -0,0 +1,14 @@
+Git v1.7.3.1 Release Notes
+==========================
+
+Fixes since v1.7.3
+------------------
+
+ * "git stash show stash@{$n}" was accidentally broken in 1.7.3 ("git
+   stash show" without any argument still worked, though).
+
+ * "git stash branch $branch stash@{$n}" was accidentally broken in
+   1.7.3 and started dropping the named stash even when branch creation
+   failed.
+
+And other minor fixes and documentation updates.
diff --git a/Documentation/RelNotes/1.7.3.2.txt b/Documentation/RelNotes/1.7.3.2.txt
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..5c93b85
--- /dev/null
+++ b/Documentation/RelNotes/1.7.3.2.txt
@@ -0,0 +1,5 @@
+Git v1.7.3.2 Release Notes
+==========================
+
+This is primarily to push out many documentation fixes accumulated since
+the 1.7.3.1 release.
diff --git a/Documentation/RelNotes/1.7.3.3.txt b/Documentation/RelNotes/1.7.3.3.txt
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..9b2b244
--- /dev/null
+++ b/Documentation/RelNotes/1.7.3.3.txt
@@ -0,0 +1,54 @@
+Git v1.7.3.3 Release Notes
+==========================
+
+In addition to the usual fixes, this release also includes support for
+the new "add.ignoreErrors" name given to the existing "add.ignore-errors"
+configuration variable.
+
+The next version, Git 1.7.4, and future versions, will support both
+old and incorrect name and the new corrected name, but without this
+backport, users who want to use the new name "add.ignoreErrors" in
+their repositories cannot use older versions of Git.
+
+Fixes since v1.7.3.2
+--------------------
+
+ * "git apply" segfaulted when a bogus input is fed to it.
+
+ * Running "git cherry-pick --ff" on a root commit segfaulted.
+
+ * "diff", "blame" and friends incorrectly applied textconv filters to
+   symlinks.
+
+ * Highlighting of whitespace breakage in "diff" output was showing
+   incorrect amount of whitespaces when blank-at-eol is set and the line
+   consisted only of whitespaces and a TAB.
+
+ * "diff" was overly inefficient when trying to find the line to use for
+   the function header (i.e. equivalent to --show-c-function of GNU diff).
+
+ * "git imap-send" depends on libcrypto but our build rule relied on the
+   linker to implicitly link it via libssl, which was wrong.
+
+ * "git merge-file" can be called from within a subdirectory now.
+
+ * "git repack -f" expanded and recompressed non-delta objects in the
+   existing pack, which was wasteful.  Use new "-F" option if you really
+   want to (e.g. when changing the pack.compression level).
+
+ * "git rev-list --format="...%x00..." incorrectly chopped its output
+   at NUL.
+
+ * "git send-email" did not correctly remove duplicate mail addresses from
+   the Cc: header that appear on the To: header.
+
+ * The completion script (in contrib/completion) ignored lightweight tags
+   in __git_ps1().
+
+ * "git-blame" mode (in contrib/emacs) didn't say (require 'format-spec)
+   even though it depends on it; it didn't work with Emacs 22 or older
+   unless Gnus is used.
+
+ * "git-p4" (in contrib/) did not correctly handle deleted files.
+
+Other minor fixes and documentation updates are also included.
diff --git a/Documentation/RelNotes/1.7.3.txt b/Documentation/RelNotes/1.7.3.txt
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..309c331
--- /dev/null
+++ b/Documentation/RelNotes/1.7.3.txt
@@ -0,0 +1,76 @@
+Git v1.7.3 Release Notes
+========================
+
+Updates since v1.7.2
+--------------------
+
+ * git-gui, now at version 0.13.0, got various updates and a new
+   maintainer, Pat Thoyts.
+
+ * Gitweb allows its configuration to change per each request; it used to
+   read the configuration once upon startup.
+
+ * When git finds a corrupt object, it now reports the file that contains
+   it.
+
+ * "git checkout -B <it>" is a shorter way to say "git branch -f <it>"
+   followed by "git checkout <it>".
+
+ * When "git checkout" or "git merge" refuse to proceed in order to
+   protect local modification to your working tree, they used to stop
+   after showing just one path that might be lost.  They now show all,
+   in a format that is easier to read.
+
+ * "git clean" learned "-e" ("--exclude") option.
+
+ * Hunk headers produced for C# files by "git diff" and friends show more
+   relevant context than before.
+
+ * diff.ignoresubmodules configuration variable can be used to squelch the
+   differences in submodules reported when running commands (e.g. "diff",
+   "status", etc.) at the superproject level.
+
+ * http.useragent configuration can be used to lie who you are to your
+   restrictive firewall.
+
+ * "git rebase --strategy <s>" learned "-X" option to pass extra options
+   that are understood by the chosen merge strategy.
+
+ * "git rebase -i" learned "exec" that you can insert into the insn sheet
+   to run a command between its steps.
+
+ * "git rebase" between branches that have many binary changes that do
+   not conflict should be faster.
+
+ * "git rebase -i" peeks into rebase.autosquash configuration and acts as
+   if you gave --autosquash from the command line.
+
+
+Also contains various documentation updates.
+
+
+Fixes since v1.7.2
+------------------
+
+All of the fixes in v1.7.2.X maintenance series are included in this
+release, unless otherwise noted.
+
+ * "git merge -s recursive" (which is the default) did not handle cases
+   where a directory becomes a file (or vice versa) very well.
+
+ * "git fetch" and friends were accidentally broken for url with "+" in
+   its path, e.g. "git://git.gnome.org/gtk+".
+
+ * "git fetch $url" (i.e. without refspecs) was broken for quite some
+   time, if the current branch happen to be tracking some remote.
+
+ * "git ls-tree dir dirgarbage", when "dir" was a directory,
+   incorrectly recursed into "dir".
+
+ * "git note remove" created unnecessary extra commit when named object
+   did not have any note to begin with.
+
+ * "git rebase" did not work well if you had diff.noprefix configured.
+
+ * "git -c foo=bar subcmd" did not work well for subcmd that is not
+   implemented as a built-in command.
diff --git a/Documentation/RelNotes/1.7.4.txt b/Documentation/RelNotes/1.7.4.txt
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..0a73e6d
--- /dev/null
+++ b/Documentation/RelNotes/1.7.4.txt
@@ -0,0 +1,132 @@
+Git v1.7.4 Release Notes (draft)
+================================
+
+Updates since v1.7.3
+--------------------
+
+ * The option parsers of various commands that create new branch (or
+   rename existing ones to a new name) were too loose and users were
+   allowed to call a branch with a name that begins with a dash by
+   creative abuse of their command line options, which only lead to
+   burn themselves.  The name of a branch cannot begin with a dash
+   now.
+
+ * System-wide fallback default attributes can be stored in
+   /etc/gitattributes; core.attributesfile configuration variable can
+   be used to customize the path to this file.
+
+ * The thread structure generated by "git send-email" has changed
+   slightly.  Setting the cover letter of the latest series as a reply
+   to the cover letter of the previous series with --in-reply-to used
+   to make the new cover letter and all the patches replies to the
+   cover letter of the previous series; this has been changed to make
+   the patches in the new series replies to the new cover letter.
+
+ * Bash completion script in contrib/ has been adjusted to be also
+   usable by zsh.
+
+ * "git blame" learned --show-email option to display the e-mail
+   addresses instead of the names of authors.
+
+ * "git daemon" can be built in MinGW environment.
+
+ * "git daemon" can take more than one --listen option to listen to
+   multiple addresses.
+
+ * "git diff" and "git grep" learned how functions and subroutines
+   in Fortran look like.
+
+ * "git mergetool" tells vim/gvim to show three-way diff by default
+   (use vimdiff2/gvimdiff2 as the tool name for old behaviour).
+
+ * "git log -G<pattern>" limits the output to commits whose change has
+   added or deleted lines that match the given pattern.
+
+ * "git read-tree" with no argument as a way to empty the index is
+   deprecated; we might want to remove it in the future.  Users can
+   use the new --empty option to be more explicit instead.
+
+ * "git repack -f" does not spend cycles to recompress objects in the
+   non-delta representation anymore (use -F if you really mean it when
+   e.g. you changed the compression level).
+
+ * "git merge --log" used to limit the resulting merge log to 20
+   entries; this is now customizable by giving e.g. "--log=47".
+
+ * "git merge" may work better when all files were moved out of a
+   directory in one branch while a new file is created in place of that
+   directory in the other branch.
+
+ * "git rebase --autosquash" can use SHA-1 object names to name which
+   commit to fix up (e.g. "fixup! e83c5163").
+
+ * The default "recursive" merge strategy learned --rename-threshold
+   option to influence the rename detection, similar to the -M option
+   of "git diff".  E.g. "git merge -Xrename-threshold=50% ..." to use
+   this.
+
+ * The "recursive" strategy also learned to ignore various whitespace
+   changes; the most notable is -Xignore-space-at-eol.
+
+ * "git send-email" learned "--to-cmd", similar to "--cc-cmd", to read
+   recipient list from a command output.
+
+ * "git send-email" learned to read and use "To:" from its input files.
+
+ * you can extend "git shell", which is often used on boxes that allow
+   git-only login over ssh as login shell, with custom set of
+   commands.
+
+ * "git submodule sync" updates metainformation for all submodules,
+   not just the ones that have been checked out.
+
+ * gitweb can use custom 'highlight' command with its configuration file.
+
+
+Also contains various documentation updates.
+
+
+Fixes since v1.7.3
+------------------
+
+All of the fixes in v1.7.3.X maintenance series are included in this
+release, unless otherwise noted.
+
+ * Smart HTTP transport used to incorrectly retry redirected POST
+   request with GET request (311e2ea006).
+
+ * "git apply" did not correctly handle patches that only change modes
+   if told to apply while stripping leading paths with -p option (aae1f6ac).
+
+ * "git apply" can deal with patches with timezone formatted with a
+   colon between the hours and minutes part (e.g. "-08:00" instead of
+   "-0800").
+
+ * "git checkout" removed an untracked file "foo" from the working
+    tree when switching to a branch that contains a tracked path
+    "foo/bar".  Prevent this, just like the case where the conflicting
+    path were "foo" (c752e7f..7980872d).
+
+ * "git diff --check" reported an incorrect line number for added
+   blank lines at the end of file (8837d335).
+
+ * "git log --author=me --author=her" did not find commits written by
+   me or by her; instead it looked for commits written by me and by
+   her, which is impossible.
+
+ * "git merge" into an unborn branch removed an untracked file "foo"
+   from the working tree when merged branch had "foo" (2caf20c..172b642).
+
+ * "git push --progress" shows progress indicators now.
+
+ * "git repack" places its temporary packs under $GIT_OBJECT_DIRECTORY/pack
+   instead of $GIT_OBJECT_DIRECTORY/ to avoid cross directory renames.
+
+ * "git submodule update --recursive --other-flags" passes flags down
+   to its subinvocations.
+
+---
+exec >/var/tmp/1
+O=v1.7.3.2-450-g5b9c331
+echo O=$(git describe master)
+git shortlog --no-merges ^maint ^$O master
diff --git a/Documentation/SubmittingPatches b/Documentation/SubmittingPatches
index ece3c77..72741eb 100644
--- a/Documentation/SubmittingPatches
+++ b/Documentation/SubmittingPatches
@@ -264,12 +264,21 @@ the change to its true author (see (2) above).
 Also notice that a real name is used in the Signed-off-by: line. Please
 don't hide your real name.
 
-Some people also put extra tags at the end.
-
-"Acked-by:" says that the patch was reviewed by the person who
-is more familiar with the issues and the area the patch attempts
-to modify.  "Tested-by:" says the patch was tested by the person
-and found to have the desired effect.
+If you like, you can put extra tags at the end:
+
+1. "Reported-by:" is used to to credit someone who found the bug that
+   the patch attempts to fix.
+2. "Acked-by:" says that the person who is more familiar with the area
+   the patch attempts to modify liked the patch.
+3. "Reviewed-by:", unlike the other tags, can only be offered by the
+   reviewer and means that she is completely satisfied that the patch
+   is ready for application.  It is usually offered only after a
+   detailed review.
+4. "Tested-by:" is used to indicate that the person applied the patch
+   and found it to have the desired effect.
+
+You can also create your own tag or use one that's in common usage
+such as "Thanks-to:", "Based-on-patch-by:", or "Mentored-by:".
 
 ------------------------------------------------
 An ideal patch flow
diff --git a/Documentation/asciidoc.conf b/Documentation/asciidoc.conf
index 87a90f2..aea8627 100644
--- a/Documentation/asciidoc.conf
+++ b/Documentation/asciidoc.conf
@@ -16,8 +16,11 @@ plus=&#43;
 caret=&#94;
 startsb=&#91;
 endsb=&#93;
+backslash=&#92;
 tilde=&#126;
+apostrophe=&#39;
 backtick=&#96;
+litdd=&#45;&#45;
 
 ifdef::backend-docbook[]
 [linkgit-inlinemacro]
diff --git a/Documentation/config.txt b/Documentation/config.txt
index f81fb91..6b7279f 100644
--- a/Documentation/config.txt
+++ b/Documentation/config.txt
@@ -128,7 +128,7 @@ advice.*::
 		when writing commit messages. Default: true.
 	commitBeforeMerge::
 		Advice shown when linkgit:git-merge[1] refuses to
-		merge to avoid overwritting local changes.
+		merge to avoid overwriting local changes.
 		Default: true.
 	resolveConflict::
 		Advices shown by various commands when conflicts
@@ -418,7 +418,7 @@ Common unit suffixes of 'k', 'm', or 'g' are supported.
 
 core.deltaBaseCacheLimit::
 	Maximum number of bytes to reserve for caching base objects
-	that multiple deltafied objects reference.  By storing the
+	that may be referenced by multiple deltified objects.  By storing the
 	entire decompressed base objects in a cache Git is able
 	to avoid unpacking and decompressing frequently used base
 	objects multiple times.
@@ -450,6 +450,21 @@ core.excludesfile::
 	to the value of `$HOME` and "{tilde}user/" to the specified user's
 	home directory.  See linkgit:gitignore[5].
 
+core.askpass::
+	Some commands (e.g. svn and http interfaces) that interactively
+	ask for a password can be told to use an external program given
+	via the value of this variable. Can be overridden by the 'GIT_ASKPASS'
+	environment variable. If not set, fall back to the value of the
+	'SSH_ASKPASS' environment variable or, failing that, a simple password
+	prompt. The external program shall be given a suitable prompt as
+	command line argument and write the password on its STDOUT.
+
+core.attributesfile::
+	In addition to '.gitattributes' (per-directory) and
+	'.git/info/attributes', git looks into this file for attributes
+	(see linkgit:gitattributes[5]). Path expansions are made the same
+	way as for `core.excludesfile`.
+
 core.editor::
 	Commands such as `commit` and `tag` that lets you edit
 	messages by launching an editor uses the value of this
@@ -539,9 +554,13 @@ core.sparseCheckout::
 	linkgit:git-read-tree[1] for more information.
 
 add.ignore-errors::
+add.ignoreErrors::
 	Tells 'git add' to continue adding files when some files cannot be
 	added due to indexing errors. Equivalent to the '--ignore-errors'
-	option of linkgit:git-add[1].
+	option of linkgit:git-add[1].  Older versions of git accept only
+	`add.ignore-errors`, which does not follow the usual naming
+	convention for configuration variables.  Newer versions of git
+	honor `add.ignoreErrors` as well.
 
 alias.*::
 	Command aliases for the linkgit:git[1] command wrapper - e.g.
@@ -563,7 +582,7 @@ not necessarily be the current directory.
 am.keepcr::
 	If true, git-am will call git-mailsplit for patches in mbox format
 	with parameter '--keep-cr'. In this case git-mailsplit will
-	not remove `\r` from lines ending with `\r\n`. Can be overrriden
+	not remove `\r` from lines ending with `\r\n`. Can be overridden
 	by giving '--no-keep-cr' from the command line.
 	See linkgit:git-am[1], linkgit:git-mailsplit[1].
 
@@ -586,8 +605,9 @@ branch.autosetupmerge::
 	this behavior can be chosen per-branch using the `--track`
 	and `--no-track` options. The valid settings are: `false` -- no
 	automatic setup is done; `true` -- automatic setup is done when the
-	starting point is a remote branch; `always` -- automatic setup is
-	done when the starting point is either a local branch or remote
+	starting point is a remote-tracking branch; `always` --
+	automatic setup is done when the starting point is either a
+	local branch or remote-tracking
 	branch. This option defaults to true.
 
 branch.autosetuprebase::
@@ -598,7 +618,7 @@ branch.autosetuprebase::
 	When `local`, rebase is set to true for tracked branches of
 	other local branches.
 	When `remote`, rebase is set to true for tracked branches of
-	remote branches.
+	remote-tracking branches.
 	When `always`, rebase will be set to true for all tracking
 	branches.
 	See "branch.autosetupmerge" for details on how to set up a
@@ -665,7 +685,7 @@ color.branch::
 color.branch.<slot>::
 	Use customized color for branch coloration. `<slot>` is one of
 	`current` (the current branch), `local` (a local branch),
-	`remote` (a tracking branch in refs/remotes/), `plain` (other
+	`remote` (a remote-tracking branch in refs/remotes/), `plain` (other
 	refs).
 +
 The value for these configuration variables is a list of colors (at most
@@ -693,7 +713,7 @@ color.diff.<slot>::
 color.decorate.<slot>::
 	Use customized color for 'git log --decorate' output.  `<slot>` is one
 	of `branch`, `remoteBranch`, `tag`, `stash` or `HEAD` for local
-	branches, remote tracking branches, tags, stash and HEAD, respectively.
+	branches, remote-tracking branches, tags, stash and HEAD, respectively.
 
 color.grep::
 	When set to `always`, always highlight matches.  When `false` (or
@@ -804,8 +824,6 @@ diff.mnemonicprefix::
 	standard "a/" and "b/" depending on what is being compared.  When
 	this configuration is in effect, reverse diff output also swaps
 	the order of the prefixes:
-diff.noprefix::
-	If set, 'git diff' does not show any source or destination prefix.
 `git diff`;;
 	compares the (i)ndex and the (w)ork tree;
 `git diff HEAD`;;
@@ -817,6 +835,9 @@ diff.noprefix::
 `git diff --no-index a b`;;
 	compares two non-git things (1) and (2).
 
+diff.noprefix::
+	If set, 'git diff' does not show any source or destination prefix.
+
 diff.renameLimit::
 	The number of files to consider when performing the copy/rename
 	detection; equivalent to the 'git diff' option '-l'.
@@ -826,6 +847,12 @@ diff.renames::
 	will enable basic rename detection.  If set to "copies" or
 	"copy", it will detect copies, as well.
 
+diff.ignoreSubmodules::
+	Sets the default value of --ignore-submodules. Note that this
+	affects only 'git diff' Porcelain, and not lower level 'diff'
+	commands such as 'git diff-files'. 'git checkout' also honors
+	this setting when reporting uncommitted changes.
+
 diff.suppressBlankEmpty::
 	A boolean to inhibit the standard behavior of printing a space
 	before each empty output line. Defaults to false.
@@ -1002,7 +1029,7 @@ gitcvs.usecrlfattr::
 	If true, the server will look up the end-of-line conversion
 	attributes for files to determine the '-k' modes to use. If
 	the attributes force git to treat a file as text,
-	the '-k' mode will be left blank so cvs clients will
+	the '-k' mode will be left blank so CVS clients will
 	treat it as text. If they suppress text conversion, the file
 	will be set with '-kb' mode, which suppresses any newline munging
 	the client might otherwise do. If the attributes do not allow
@@ -1080,7 +1107,7 @@ gui.newbranchtemplate::
 	linkgit:git-gui[1].
 
 gui.pruneduringfetch::
-	"true" if linkgit:git-gui[1] should prune tracking branches when
+	"true" if linkgit:git-gui[1] should prune remote-tracking branches when
 	performing a fetch. The default value is "false".
 
 gui.trustmtime::
@@ -1243,6 +1270,15 @@ http.noEPSV::
 	support EPSV mode. Can be overridden by the 'GIT_CURL_FTP_NO_EPSV'
 	environment variable. Default is false (curl will use EPSV).
 
+http.useragent::
+	The HTTP USER_AGENT string presented to an HTTP server.  The default
+	value represents the version of the client git such as git/1.7.1.
+	This option allows you to override this value to a more common value
+	such as Mozilla/4.0.  This may be necessary, for instance, if
+	connecting through a firewall that restricts HTTP connections to a set
+	of common USER_AGENT strings (but not including those like git/1.7.1).
+	Can be overridden by the 'GIT_HTTP_USER_AGENT' environment variable.
+
 i18n.commitEncoding::
 	Character encoding the commit messages are stored in; git itself
 	does not care per se, but this information is necessary e.g. when
@@ -1275,7 +1311,9 @@ instaweb.local::
 	be bound to the local IP (127.0.0.1).
 
 instaweb.modulepath::
-	The module path for an apache httpd used by linkgit:git-instaweb[1].
+	The default module path for linkgit:git-instaweb[1] to use
+	instead of /usr/lib/apache2/modules.  Only used if httpd
+	is Apache.
 
 instaweb.port::
 	The port number to bind the gitweb httpd to. See
@@ -1289,10 +1327,11 @@ interactive.singlekey::
 	ignored if portable keystroke input is not available.
 
 log.date::
-	Set default date-time mode for the log command. Setting log.date
-	value is similar to using 'git log'\'s --date option. The value is one of the
-	following alternatives: {relative,local,default,iso,rfc,short}.
-	See linkgit:git-log[1].
+	Set the default date-time mode for the 'log' command.
+	Setting a value for log.date is similar to using 'git log''s
+	`\--date` option.  Possible values are `relative`, `local`,
+	`default`, `iso`, `rfc`, and `short`; see linkgit:git-log[1]
+	for details.
 
 log.decorate::
 	Print out the ref names of any commits that are shown by the log
@@ -1438,6 +1477,10 @@ pack.compression::
 	not set,  defaults to -1, the zlib default, which is "a default
 	compromise between speed and compression (currently equivalent
 	to level 6)."
++
+Note that changing the compression level will not automatically recompress
+all existing objects. You can force recompression by passing the -F option
+to linkgit:git-repack[1].
 
 pack.deltaCacheSize::
 	The maximum memory in bytes used for caching deltas in
@@ -1522,17 +1565,20 @@ push.default::
 	no refspec is implied by any of the options given on the command
 	line. Possible values are:
 +
-* `nothing` do not push anything.
-* `matching` push all matching branches.
+* `nothing` - do not push anything.
+* `matching` - push all matching branches.
   All branches having the same name in both ends are considered to be
   matching. This is the default.
-* `tracking` push the current branch to its upstream branch.
-* `current` push the current branch to a branch of the same name.
+* `tracking` - push the current branch to its upstream branch.
+* `current` - push the current branch to a branch of the same name.
 
 rebase.stat::
 	Whether to show a diffstat of what changed upstream since the last
 	rebase. False by default.
 
+rebase.autosquash::
+	If set to true enable '--autosquash' option by default.
+
 receive.autogc::
 	By default, git-receive-pack will run "git-gc --auto" after
 	receiving data from git-push and updating refs.  You can stop
@@ -1627,7 +1673,9 @@ remote.<name>.tagopt::
 	Setting this value to \--no-tags disables automatic tag following when
 	fetching from remote <name>. Setting it to \--tags will fetch every
 	tag from remote <name>, even if they are not reachable from remote
-	branch heads.
+	branch heads. Passing these flags directly to linkgit:git-fetch[1] can
+	override this setting. See options \--tags and \--no-tags of
+	linkgit:git-fetch[1].
 
 remote.<name>.vcs::
 	Setting this to a value <vcs> will cause git to interact with
@@ -1694,6 +1742,7 @@ sendemail.to::
 sendemail.smtpdomain::
 sendemail.smtpserver::
 sendemail.smtpserverport::
+sendemail.smtpserveroption::
 sendemail.smtpuser::
 sendemail.thread::
 sendemail.validate::
@@ -1722,9 +1771,9 @@ status.showUntrackedFiles::
 	the untracked files. Possible values are:
 +
 --
-	- 'no'     - Show no untracked files
-	- 'normal' - Shows untracked files and directories
-	- 'all'    - Shows also individual files in untracked directories.
+* `no` - Show no untracked files.
+* `normal` - Show untracked files and directories.
+* `all` - Show also individual files in untracked directories.
 --
 +
 If this variable is not specified, it defaults to 'normal'.
@@ -1747,6 +1796,19 @@ submodule.<name>.update::
 	URL and other values found in the `.gitmodules` file.  See
 	linkgit:git-submodule[1] and linkgit:gitmodules[5] for details.
 
+submodule.<name>.ignore::
+	Defines under what circumstances "git status" and the diff family show
+	a submodule as modified. When set to "all", it will never be considered
+	modified, "dirty" will ignore all changes to the submodules work tree and
+	takes only differences between the HEAD of the submodule and the commit
+	recorded in the superproject into account. "untracked" will additionally
+	let submodules with modified tracked files in their work tree show up.
+	Using "none" (the default when this option is not set) also shows
+	submodules that have untracked files in their work tree as changed.
+	This setting overrides any setting made in .gitmodules for this submodule,
+	both settings can be overridden on the command line by using the
+	"--ignore-submodules" option.
+
 tar.umask::
 	This variable can be used to restrict the permission bits of
 	tar archive entries.  The default is 0002, which turns off the
diff --git a/Documentation/diff-generate-patch.txt b/Documentation/diff-generate-patch.txt
index 8f9a241..3ac2bea 100644
--- a/Documentation/diff-generate-patch.txt
+++ b/Documentation/diff-generate-patch.txt
@@ -9,16 +9,15 @@ patch file.  You can customize the creation of such patches via the
 GIT_EXTERNAL_DIFF and the GIT_DIFF_OPTS environment variables.
 
 What the -p option produces is slightly different from the traditional
-diff format.
+diff format:
 
-1.   It is preceded with a "git diff" header, that looks like
-     this:
+1.   It is preceded with a "git diff" header that looks like this:
 
        diff --git a/file1 b/file2
 +
 The `a/` and `b/` filenames are the same unless rename/copy is
 involved.  Especially, even for a creation or a deletion,
-`/dev/null` is _not_ used in place of `a/` or `b/` filenames.
+`/dev/null` is _not_ used in place of the `a/` or `b/` filenames.
 +
 When rename/copy is involved, `file1` and `file2` show the
 name of the source file of the rename/copy and the name of
@@ -37,18 +36,39 @@ the file that rename/copy produces, respectively.
        similarity index <number>
        dissimilarity index <number>
        index <hash>..<hash> <mode>
-
-3.  TAB, LF, double quote and backslash characters in pathnames
-    are represented as `\t`, `\n`, `\"` and `\\`, respectively.
-    If there is need for such substitution then the whole
-    pathname is put in double quotes.
-
++
+File modes are printed as 6-digit octal numbers including the file type
+and file permission bits.
++
+Path names in extended headers do not include the `a/` and `b/` prefixes.
++
 The similarity index is the percentage of unchanged lines, and
 the dissimilarity index is the percentage of changed lines.  It
 is a rounded down integer, followed by a percent sign.  The
 similarity index value of 100% is thus reserved for two equal
 files, while 100% dissimilarity means that no line from the old
 file made it into the new one.
++
+The index line includes the SHA-1 checksum before and after the change.
+The <mode> is included if the file mode does not change; otherwise,
+separate lines indicate the old and the new mode.
+
+3.  TAB, LF, double quote and backslash characters in pathnames
+    are represented as `\t`, `\n`, `\"` and `\\`, respectively.
+    If there is need for such substitution then the whole
+    pathname is put in double quotes.
+
+4.  All the `file1` files in the output refer to files before the
+    commit, and all the `file2` files refer to files after the commit.
+    It is incorrect to apply each change to each file sequentially.  For
+    example, this patch will swap a and b:
+
+      diff --git a/a b/b
+      rename from a
+      rename to b
+      diff --git a/b b/a
+      rename from b
+      rename to a
 
 
 combined diff format
diff --git a/Documentation/diff-options.txt b/Documentation/diff-options.txt
index eecedaa..f3e9538 100644
--- a/Documentation/diff-options.txt
+++ b/Documentation/diff-options.txt
@@ -48,9 +48,9 @@ endif::git-format-patch[]
 --patience::
 	Generate a diff using the "patience diff" algorithm.
 
---stat[=width[,name-width]]::
+--stat[=<width>[,<name-width>]]::
 	Generate a diffstat.  You can override the default
-	output width for 80-column terminal by `--stat=width`.
+	output width for 80-column terminal by `--stat=<width>`.
 	The width of the filename part can be controlled by
 	giving another width to it separated by a comma.
 
@@ -66,14 +66,14 @@ endif::git-format-patch[]
 	number of modified files, as well as number of added and deleted
 	lines.
 
---dirstat[=limit]::
+--dirstat[=<limit>]::
 	Output the distribution of relative amount of changes (number of lines added or
 	removed) for each sub-directory. Directories with changes below
 	a cut-off percent (3% by default) are not shown. The cut-off percent
-	can be set with `--dirstat=limit`. Changes in a child directory is not
+	can be set with `--dirstat=<limit>`. Changes in a child directory are not
 	counted for the parent directory, unless `--cumulative` is used.
 
---dirstat-by-file[=limit]::
+--dirstat-by-file[=<limit>]::
 	Same as `--dirstat`, but counts changed files instead of lines.
 
 --summary::
@@ -207,6 +207,7 @@ endif::git-format-patch[]
 	digits can be specified with `--abbrev=<n>`.
 
 -B[<n>][/<m>]::
+--break-rewrites[=[<n>][/<m>]]::
 	Break complete rewrite changes into pairs of delete and
 	create. This serves two purposes:
 +
@@ -229,6 +230,7 @@ eligible for being picked up as a possible source of a rename to
 another file.
 
 -M[<n>]::
+--detect-renames[=<n>]::
 ifndef::git-log[]
 	Detect renames.
 endif::git-log[]
@@ -244,23 +246,10 @@ endif::git-log[]
 	hasn't changed.
 
 -C[<n>]::
+--detect-copies[=<n>]::
 	Detect copies as well as renames.  See also `--find-copies-harder`.
 	If `n` is specified, it has the same meaning as for `-M<n>`.
 
-ifndef::git-format-patch[]
---diff-filter=[ACDMRTUXB*]::
-	Select only files that are Added (`A`), Copied (`C`),
-	Deleted (`D`), Modified (`M`), Renamed (`R`), have their
-	type (i.e. regular file, symlink, submodule, ...) changed (`T`),
-	are Unmerged (`U`), are
-	Unknown (`X`), or have had their pairing Broken (`B`).
-	Any combination of the filter characters may be used.
-	When `*` (All-or-none) is added to the combination, all
-	paths are selected if there is any file that matches
-	other criteria in the comparison; if there is no file
-	that matches other criteria, nothing is selected.
-endif::git-format-patch[]
-
 --find-copies-harder::
 	For performance reasons, by default, `-C` option finds copies only
 	if the original file of the copy was modified in the same
@@ -278,14 +267,30 @@ endif::git-format-patch[]
 	number.
 
 ifndef::git-format-patch[]
+--diff-filter=[(A|C|D|M|R|T|U|X|B)...[*]]::
+	Select only files that are Added (`A`), Copied (`C`),
+	Deleted (`D`), Modified (`M`), Renamed (`R`), have their
+	type (i.e. regular file, symlink, submodule, ...) changed (`T`),
+	are Unmerged (`U`), are
+	Unknown (`X`), or have had their pairing Broken (`B`).
+	Any combination of the filter characters (including none) can be used.
+	When `*` (All-or-none) is added to the combination, all
+	paths are selected if there is any file that matches
+	other criteria in the comparison; if there is no file
+	that matches other criteria, nothing is selected.
+
 -S<string>::
 	Look for differences that introduce or remove an instance of
 	<string>. Note that this is different than the string simply
 	appearing in diff output; see the 'pickaxe' entry in
 	linkgit:gitdiffcore[7] for more details.
 
+-G<regex>::
+	Look for differences whose added or removed line matches
+	the given <regex>.
+
 --pickaxe-all::
-	When `-S` finds a change, show all the changes in that
+	When `-S` or `-G` finds a change, show all the changes in that
 	changeset, not just the files that contain the change
 	in <string>.
 
@@ -355,7 +360,11 @@ endif::git-format-patch[]
 
 --ignore-submodules[=<when>]::
 	Ignore changes to submodules in the diff generation. <when> can be
-	either "untracked", "dirty" or "all", which is the default. When
+	either "none", "untracked", "dirty" or "all", which is the default
+	Using "none" will consider the submodule modified when it either contains
+	untracked or modified files or its HEAD differs from the commit recorded
+	in the superproject and can be used to override any settings of the
+	'ignore' option in linkgit:git-config[1] or linkgit:gitmodules[5]. When
 	"untracked" is used submodules are not considered dirty when they only
 	contain untracked content (but they are still scanned for modified
 	content). Using "dirty" ignores all changes to the work tree of submodules,
diff --git a/Documentation/docbook.xsl b/Documentation/docbook.xsl
index 9a6912c..da8b05b 100644
--- a/Documentation/docbook.xsl
+++ b/Documentation/docbook.xsl
@@ -1,5 +1,8 @@
 <xsl:stylesheet xmlns:xsl="http://www.w3.org/1999/XSL/Transform"
 		version='1.0'>
  <xsl:import href="http://docbook.sourceforge.net/release/xsl/current/html/docbook.xsl"/>
- <xsl:output method="html" encoding="UTF-8" indent="no" />
+ <xsl:output method="html"
+     encoding="UTF-8" indent="no"
+     doctype-public="-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.01//EN"
+     doctype-system="http://www.w3.org/TR/html4/strict.dtd" />
 </xsl:stylesheet>
diff --git a/Documentation/everyday.txt b/Documentation/everyday.txt
index e0ba8cc..ae413e5 100644
--- a/Documentation/everyday.txt
+++ b/Documentation/everyday.txt
@@ -180,12 +180,12 @@ directory; clone from it to start a repository on the satellite
 machine.
 <2> clone sets these configuration variables by default.
 It arranges `git pull` to fetch and store the branches of mothership
-machine to local `remotes/origin/*` tracking branches.
+machine to local `remotes/origin/*` remote-tracking branches.
 <3> arrange `git push` to push local `master` branch to
 `remotes/satellite/master` branch of the mothership machine.
 <4> push will stash our work away on `remotes/satellite/master`
-tracking branch on the mothership machine.  You could use this as
-a back-up method.
+remote-tracking branch on the mothership machine.  You could use this
+as a back-up method.
 <5> on mothership machine, merge the work done on the satellite
 machine into the master branch.
 
diff --git a/Documentation/fetch-options.txt b/Documentation/fetch-options.txt
index 9333c42..678675c 100644
--- a/Documentation/fetch-options.txt
+++ b/Documentation/fetch-options.txt
@@ -36,7 +36,7 @@ ifndef::git-pull[]
 
 -p::
 --prune::
-	After fetching, remove any remote tracking branches which
+	After fetching, remove any remote-tracking branches which
 	no longer exist	on the remote.
 endif::git-pull[]
 
@@ -49,8 +49,11 @@ ifndef::git-pull[]
 endif::git-pull[]
 	By default, tags that point at objects that are downloaded
 	from the remote repository are fetched and stored locally.
-	This option disables this automatic tag following.
+	This option disables this automatic tag following. The default
+	behavior for a remote may be specified with the remote.<name>.tagopt
+	setting. See linkgit:git-config[1].
 
+ifndef::git-pull[]
 -t::
 --tags::
 	Most of the tags are fetched automatically as branch
@@ -58,7 +61,10 @@ endif::git-pull[]
 	objects reachable from the branch heads that are being
 	tracked will not be fetched by this mechanism.  This
 	flag lets all tags and their associated objects be
-	downloaded.
+	downloaded. The default behavior for a remote may be
+	specified with the remote.<name>.tagopt setting. See
+	linkgit:git-config[1].
+endif::git-pull[]
 
 -u::
 --update-head-ok::
diff --git a/Documentation/git-add.txt b/Documentation/git-add.txt
index e22a62f..54aaaeb 100644
--- a/Documentation/git-add.txt
+++ b/Documentation/git-add.txt
@@ -92,9 +92,11 @@ See ``Interactive mode'' for details.
 	edit it.  After the editor was closed, adjust the hunk headers
 	and apply the patch to the index.
 +
-*NOTE*: Obviously, if you change anything else than the first character
-on lines beginning with a space or a minus, the patch will no longer
-apply.
+The intent of this option is to pick and choose lines of the patch to
+apply, or even to modify the contents of lines to be staged. This can be
+quicker and more flexible than using the interactive hunk selector.
+However, it is easy to confuse oneself and create a patch that does not
+apply to the index. See EDITING PATCHES below.
 
 -u::
 --update::
@@ -157,14 +159,14 @@ those in info/exclude.  See linkgit:gitrepository-layout[5].
 EXAMPLES
 --------
 
-* Adds content from all `\*.txt` files under `Documentation` directory
+* Adds content from all `*.txt` files under `Documentation` directory
 and its subdirectories:
 +
 ------------
 $ git add Documentation/\*.txt
 ------------
 +
-Note that the asterisk `\*` is quoted from the shell in this
+Note that the asterisk `*` is quoted from the shell in this
 example; this lets the command include the files from
 subdirectories of `Documentation/` directory.
 
@@ -220,7 +222,7 @@ binary so line count cannot be shown) and there is no
 difference between indexed copy and the working tree
 version (if the working tree version were also different,
 'binary' would have been shown in place of 'nothing').  The
-other file, git-add--interactive.perl, has 403 lines added
+other file, git-add{litdd}interactive.perl, has 403 lines added
 and 35 lines deleted if you commit what is in the index, but
 working tree file has further modifications (one addition and
 one deletion).
@@ -295,6 +297,78 @@ diff::
   This lets you review what will be committed (i.e. between
   HEAD and index).
 
+
+EDITING PATCHES
+---------------
+
+Invoking `git add -e` or selecting `e` from the interactive hunk
+selector will open a patch in your editor; after the editor exits, the
+result is applied to the index. You are free to make arbitrary changes
+to the patch, but note that some changes may have confusing results, or
+even result in a patch that cannot be applied.  If you want to abort the
+operation entirely (i.e., stage nothing new in the index), simply delete
+all lines of the patch. The list below describes some common things you
+may see in a patch, and which editing operations make sense on them.
+
+--
+added content::
+
+Added content is represented by lines beginning with "{plus}". You can
+prevent staging any addition lines by deleting them.
+
+removed content::
+
+Removed content is represented by lines beginning with "-". You can
+prevent staging their removal by converting the "-" to a " " (space).
+
+modified content::
+
+Modified content is represented by "-" lines (removing the old content)
+followed by "{plus}" lines (adding the replacement content). You can
+prevent staging the modification by converting "-" lines to " ", and
+removing "{plus}" lines. Beware that modifying only half of the pair is
+likely to introduce confusing changes to the index.
+--
+
+There are also more complex operations that can be performed. But beware
+that because the patch is applied only to the index and not the working
+tree, the working tree will appear to "undo" the change in the index.
+For example, introducing a a new line into the index that is in neither
+the HEAD nor the working tree will stage the new line for commit, but
+the line will appear to be reverted in the working tree.
+
+Avoid using these constructs, or do so with extreme caution.
+
+--
+removing untouched content::
+
+Content which does not differ between the index and working tree may be
+shown on context lines, beginning with a " " (space).  You can stage
+context lines for removal by converting the space to a "-". The
+resulting working tree file will appear to re-add the content.
+
+modifying existing content::
+
+One can also modify context lines by staging them for removal (by
+converting " " to "-") and adding a "{plus}" line with the new content.
+Similarly, one can modify "{plus}" lines for existing additions or
+modifications. In all cases, the new modification will appear reverted
+in the working tree.
+
+new content::
+
+You may also add new content that does not exist in the patch; simply
+add new lines, each starting with "{plus}". The addition will appear
+reverted in the working tree.
+--
+
+There are also several operations which should be avoided entirely, as
+they will make the patch impossible to apply:
+
+* adding context (" ") or removal ("-") lines
+* deleting context or removal lines
+* modifying the contents of context or removal lines
+
 SEE ALSO
 --------
 linkgit:git-status[1]
diff --git a/Documentation/git-am.txt b/Documentation/git-am.txt
index 9e62f87..51297d0 100644
--- a/Documentation/git-am.txt
+++ b/Documentation/git-am.txt
@@ -14,7 +14,7 @@ SYNOPSIS
 	 [--ignore-date] [--ignore-space-change | --ignore-whitespace]
 	 [--whitespace=<option>] [-C<n>] [-p<n>] [--directory=<dir>]
 	 [--reject] [-q | --quiet] [--scissors | --no-scissors]
-	 [<mbox> | <Maildir>...]
+	 [(<mbox> | <Maildir>)...]
 'git am' (--continue | --skip | --abort)
 
 DESCRIPTION
@@ -25,7 +25,7 @@ current branch.
 
 OPTIONS
 -------
-<mbox>|<Maildir>...::
+(<mbox>|<Maildir>)...::
 	The list of mailbox files to read patches from. If you do not
 	supply this argument, the command reads from the standard input.
 	If you supply directories, they will be treated as Maildirs.
diff --git a/Documentation/git-apply.txt b/Documentation/git-apply.txt
index 4a74b23..881652f 100644
--- a/Documentation/git-apply.txt
+++ b/Documentation/git-apply.txt
@@ -12,10 +12,10 @@ SYNOPSIS
 'git apply' [--stat] [--numstat] [--summary] [--check] [--index]
 	  [--apply] [--no-add] [--build-fake-ancestor=<file>] [-R | --reverse]
 	  [--allow-binary-replacement | --binary] [--reject] [-z]
-	  [-pNUM] [-CNUM] [--inaccurate-eof] [--recount] [--cached]
+	  [-p<n>] [-C<n>] [--inaccurate-eof] [--recount] [--cached]
 	  [--ignore-space-change | --ignore-whitespace ]
-	  [--whitespace=<nowarn|warn|fix|error|error-all>]
-	  [--exclude=PATH] [--include=PATH] [--directory=<root>]
+	  [--whitespace=(nowarn|warn|fix|error|error-all)]
+	  [--exclude=<path>] [--include=<path>] [--directory=<root>]
 	  [--verbose] [<patch>...]
 
 DESCRIPTION
diff --git a/Documentation/git-archimport.txt b/Documentation/git-archimport.txt
index 4d4325f..2411ce5 100644
--- a/Documentation/git-archimport.txt
+++ b/Documentation/git-archimport.txt
@@ -44,7 +44,7 @@ archives that it imports, it is also possible to specify git branch names
 manually.  To do so, write a git branch name after each <archive/branch>
 parameter, separated by a colon.  This way, you can shorten the Arch
 branch names and convert Arch jargon to git jargon, for example mapping a
-"PROJECT--devo--VERSION" branch to "master".
+"PROJECT{litdd}devo{litdd}VERSION" branch to "master".
 
 Associating multiple Arch branches to one git branch is possible; the
 result will make the most sense only if no commits are made to the first
@@ -85,8 +85,8 @@ OPTIONS
 -o::
 	Use this for compatibility with old-style branch names used by
 	earlier versions of 'git archimport'.  Old-style branch names
-	were category--branch, whereas new-style branch names are
-	archive,category--branch--version.  In both cases, names given
+	were category{litdd}branch, whereas new-style branch names are
+	archive,category{litdd}branch{litdd}version.  In both cases, names given
 	on the command-line will override the automatically-generated
 	ones.
 
@@ -109,7 +109,7 @@ OPTIONS
 
 Author
 ------
-Written by Martin Langhoff <martin@catalyst.net.nz>.
+Written by Martin Langhoff <martin@laptop.org>.
 
 Documentation
 --------------
diff --git a/Documentation/git-archive.txt b/Documentation/git-archive.txt
index 8d3e666..4163a1b 100644
--- a/Documentation/git-archive.txt
+++ b/Documentation/git-archive.txt
@@ -12,7 +12,7 @@ SYNOPSIS
 'git archive' [--format=<fmt>] [--list] [--prefix=<prefix>/] [<extra>]
 	      [-o | --output=<file>] [--worktree-attributes]
 	      [--remote=<repo> [--exec=<git-upload-archive>]] <tree-ish>
-	      [path...]
+	      [<path>...]
 
 DESCRIPTION
 -----------
@@ -73,7 +73,7 @@ OPTIONS
 <tree-ish>::
 	The tree or commit to produce an archive for.
 
-path::
+<path>::
 	Without an optional path parameter, all files and subdirectories
 	of the current working directory are included in the archive.
 	If one or more paths are specified, only these are included.
diff --git a/Documentation/git-bisect-lk2009.txt b/Documentation/git-bisect-lk2009.txt
index 86b3015..8a2ba37 100644
--- a/Documentation/git-bisect-lk2009.txt
+++ b/Documentation/git-bisect-lk2009.txt
@@ -873,7 +873,7 @@ c * N * T + b * M * log2(M) tests
 where c is the number of rounds of test (so a small constant) and b is
 the ratio of bug per commit (hopefully a small constant too).
 
-So of course it's much better as it's O(N \* T) vs O(N \* T \* M) if
+So of course it's much better as it's O(N * T) vs O(N * T * M) if
 you would test everything after each commit.
 
 This means that test suites are good to prevent some bugs from being
@@ -971,7 +971,7 @@ logical change in each commit.
 The smaller the changes in your commit, the most effective "git
 bisect" will be. And you will probably need "git bisect" less in the
 first place, as small changes are easier to review even if they are
-only reviewed by the commiter.
+only reviewed by the committer.
 
 Another good idea is to have good commit messages. They can be very
 helpful to understand why some changes were made.
diff --git a/Documentation/git-blame.txt b/Documentation/git-blame.txt
index a27f439..c71671b 100644
--- a/Documentation/git-blame.txt
+++ b/Documentation/git-blame.txt
@@ -8,7 +8,7 @@ git-blame - Show what revision and author last modified each line of a file
 SYNOPSIS
 --------
 [verse]
-'git blame' [-c] [-b] [-l] [--root] [-t] [-f] [-n] [-s] [-p] [-w] [--incremental] [-L n,m]
+'git blame' [-c] [-b] [-l] [--root] [-t] [-f] [-n] [-s] [-e] [-p] [-w] [--incremental] [-L n,m]
 	    [-S <revs-file>] [-M] [-C] [-C] [-C] [--since=<date>]
 	    [<rev> | --contents <file> | --reverse <rev>] [--] <file>
 
@@ -65,6 +65,10 @@ include::blame-options.txt[]
 -s::
 	Suppress the author name and timestamp from the output.
 
+-e::
+--show-email::
+	Show the author email instead of author name (Default: off).
+
 -w::
 	Ignore whitespace when comparing the parent's version and
 	the child's to find where the lines came from.
diff --git a/Documentation/git-branch.txt b/Documentation/git-branch.txt
index 1940256..9106d38 100644
--- a/Documentation/git-branch.txt
+++ b/Documentation/git-branch.txt
@@ -37,11 +37,12 @@ Note that this will create the new branch, but it will not switch the
 working tree to it; use "git checkout <newbranch>" to switch to the
 new branch.
 
-When a local branch is started off a remote branch, git sets up the
+When a local branch is started off a remote-tracking branch, git sets up the
 branch so that 'git pull' will appropriately merge from
-the remote branch. This behavior may be changed via the global
+the remote-tracking branch. This behavior may be changed via the global
 `branch.autosetupmerge` configuration flag. That setting can be
-overridden by using the `--track` and `--no-track` options.
+overridden by using the `--track` and `--no-track` options, and
+changed later using `git branch --set-upstream`.
 
 With a '-m' or '-M' option, <oldbranch> will be renamed to <newbranch>.
 If <oldbranch> had a corresponding reflog, it is renamed to match
@@ -89,7 +90,8 @@ OPTIONS
 	Move/rename a branch even if the new branch name already exists.
 
 --color[=<when>]::
-	Color branches to highlight current, local, and remote branches.
+	Color branches to highlight current, local, and
+	remote-tracking branches.
 	The value must be always (the default), never, or auto.
 
 --no-color::
@@ -125,11 +127,11 @@ OPTIONS
 	it directs `git pull` without arguments to pull from the
 	upstream when the new branch is checked out.
 +
-This behavior is the default when the start point is a remote branch.
+This behavior is the default when the start point is a remote-tracking branch.
 Set the branch.autosetupmerge configuration variable to `false` if you
 want `git checkout` and `git branch` to always behave as if '--no-track'
 were given. Set it to `always` if you want this behavior when the
-start-point is either a local or remote branch.
+start-point is either a local or remote-tracking branch.
 
 --no-track::
 	Do not set up "upstream" configuration, even if the
diff --git a/Documentation/git-bundle.txt b/Documentation/git-bundle.txt
index a5ed8fb..6266a3a 100644
--- a/Documentation/git-bundle.txt
+++ b/Documentation/git-bundle.txt
@@ -9,10 +9,10 @@ git-bundle - Move objects and refs by archive
 SYNOPSIS
 --------
 [verse]
-'git bundle' create <file> <git-rev-list args>
+'git bundle' create <file> <git-rev-list-args>
 'git bundle' verify <file>
-'git bundle' list-heads <file> [refname...]
-'git bundle' unbundle <file> [refname...]
+'git bundle' list-heads <file> [<refname>...]
+'git bundle' unbundle <file> [<refname>...]
 
 DESCRIPTION
 -----------
@@ -34,57 +34,58 @@ OPTIONS
 -------
 
 create <file>::
-       Used to create a bundle named 'file'.  This requires the
-       'git rev-list' arguments to define the bundle contents.
+	Used to create a bundle named 'file'.  This requires the
+	'git-rev-list-args' arguments to define the bundle contents.
 
 verify <file>::
-       Used to check that a bundle file is valid and will apply
-       cleanly to the current repository.  This includes checks on the
-       bundle format itself as well as checking that the prerequisite
-       commits exist and are fully linked in the current repository.
-       'git bundle' prints a list of missing commits, if any, and exits
-       with a non-zero status.
+	Used to check that a bundle file is valid and will apply
+	cleanly to the current repository.  This includes checks on the
+	bundle format itself as well as checking that the prerequisite
+	commits exist and are fully linked in the current repository.
+	'git bundle' prints a list of missing commits, if any, and exits
+	with a non-zero status.
 
 list-heads <file>::
-       Lists the references defined in the bundle.  If followed by a
-       list of references, only references matching those given are
-       printed out.
+	Lists the references defined in the bundle.  If followed by a
+	list of references, only references matching those given are
+	printed out.
 
 unbundle <file>::
-       Passes the objects in the bundle to 'git index-pack'
-       for storage in the repository, then prints the names of all
-       defined references. If a list of references is given, only
-       references matching those in the list are printed. This command is
-       really plumbing, intended to be called only by 'git fetch'.
-
-[git-rev-list-args...]::
-       A list of arguments, acceptable to 'git rev-parse' and
-       'git rev-list', that specifies the specific objects and references
-       to transport.  For example, `master\~10..master` causes the
-       current master reference to be packaged along with all objects
-       added since its 10th ancestor commit.  There is no explicit
-       limit to the number of references and objects that may be
-       packaged.
-
-
-[refname...]::
-       A list of references used to limit the references reported as
-       available. This is principally of use to 'git fetch', which
-       expects to receive only those references asked for and not
-       necessarily everything in the pack (in this case, 'git bundle' acts
-       like 'git fetch-pack').
+	Passes the objects in the bundle to 'git index-pack'
+	for storage in the repository, then prints the names of all
+	defined references. If a list of references is given, only
+	references matching those in the list are printed. This command is
+	really plumbing, intended to be called only by 'git fetch'.
+
+<git-rev-list-args>::
+	A list of arguments, acceptable to 'git rev-parse' and
+	'git rev-list' (and containg a named ref, see SPECIFYING REFERENCES
+	below), that specifies the specific objects and references
+	to transport.  For example, `master{tilde}10..master` causes the
+	current master reference to be packaged along with all objects
+	added since its 10th ancestor commit.  There is no explicit
+	limit to the number of references and objects that may be
+	packaged.
+
+
+[<refname>...]::
+	A list of references used to limit the references reported as
+	available. This is principally of use to 'git fetch', which
+	expects to receive only those references asked for and not
+	necessarily everything in the pack (in this case, 'git bundle' acts
+	like 'git fetch-pack').
 
 SPECIFYING REFERENCES
 ---------------------
 
 'git bundle' will only package references that are shown by
 'git show-ref': this includes heads, tags, and remote heads.  References
-such as `master\~1` cannot be packaged, but are perfectly suitable for
+such as `master{tilde}1` cannot be packaged, but are perfectly suitable for
 defining the basis.  More than one reference may be packaged, and more
 than one basis can be specified.  The objects packaged are those not
 contained in the union of the given bases.  Each basis can be
-specified explicitly (e.g. `^master\~10`), or implicitly (e.g.
-`master\~10..master`, `--since=10.days.ago master`).
+specified explicitly (e.g. `^master{tilde}10`), or implicitly (e.g.
+`master{tilde}10..master`, `--since=10.days.ago master`).
 
 It is very important that the basis used be held by the destination.
 It is okay to err on the side of caution, causing the bundle file
@@ -154,7 +155,7 @@ machineB$ git pull
 If you know up to what commit the intended recipient repository should
 have the necessary objects, you can use that knowledge to specify the
 basis, giving a cut-off point to limit the revisions and objects that go
-in the resulting bundle. The previous example used lastR2bundle tag
+in the resulting bundle. The previous example used the lastR2bundle tag
 for this purpose, but you can use any other options that you would give to
 the linkgit:git-log[1] command. Here are more examples:
 
@@ -194,7 +195,7 @@ references when fetching:
 $ git fetch mybundle master:localRef
 ----------------
 
-You can also see what references it offers.
+You can also see what references it offers:
 
 ----------------
 $ git ls-remote mybundle
diff --git a/Documentation/git-cat-file.txt b/Documentation/git-cat-file.txt
index a3f56b0..544ba7b 100644
--- a/Documentation/git-cat-file.txt
+++ b/Documentation/git-cat-file.txt
@@ -27,7 +27,7 @@ OPTIONS
 <object>::
 	The name of the object to show.
 	For a more complete list of ways to spell object names, see
-	the "SPECIFYING REVISIONS" section in linkgit:gitrevisions[1].
+	the "SPECIFYING REVISIONS" section in linkgit:gitrevisions[7].
 
 -t::
 	Instead of the content, show the object type identified by
diff --git a/Documentation/git-check-ref-format.txt b/Documentation/git-check-ref-format.txt
index f5c2e06..205d83d 100644
--- a/Documentation/git-check-ref-format.txt
+++ b/Documentation/git-check-ref-format.txt
@@ -49,7 +49,7 @@ git imposes the following rules on how references are named:
 These rules make it easy for shell script based tools to parse
 reference names, pathname expansion by the shell when a reference name is used
 unquoted (by mistake), and also avoids ambiguities in certain
-reference name expressions (see linkgit:gitrevisions[1]):
+reference name expressions (see linkgit:gitrevisions[7]):
 
 . A double-dot `..` is often used as in `ref1..ref2`, and in some
   contexts this notation means `{caret}ref1 ref2` (i.e. not in
diff --git a/Documentation/git-checkout-index.txt b/Documentation/git-checkout-index.txt
index d6aa6e1..0c0a9c1 100644
--- a/Documentation/git-checkout-index.txt
+++ b/Documentation/git-checkout-index.txt
@@ -13,7 +13,7 @@ SYNOPSIS
 		   [--stage=<number>|all]
 		   [--temp]
 		   [-z] [--stdin]
-		   [--] [<file>]\*
+		   [--] [<file>...]
 
 DESCRIPTION
 -----------
diff --git a/Documentation/git-checkout.txt b/Documentation/git-checkout.txt
index 1bacd2e..880763d 100644
--- a/Documentation/git-checkout.txt
+++ b/Documentation/git-checkout.txt
@@ -9,7 +9,7 @@ SYNOPSIS
 --------
 [verse]
 'git checkout' [-q] [-f] [-m] [<branch>]
-'git checkout' [-q] [-f] [-m] [[-b|--orphan] <new_branch>] [<start_point>]
+'git checkout' [-q] [-f] [-m] [[-b|-B|--orphan] <new_branch>] [<start_point>]
 'git checkout' [-f|--ours|--theirs|-m|--conflict=<style>] [<tree-ish>] [--] <paths>...
 'git checkout' --patch [<tree-ish>] [--] [<paths>...]
 
@@ -21,7 +21,7 @@ also update `HEAD` to set the specified branch as the current
 branch.
 
 'git checkout' [<branch>]::
-'git checkout' -b <new branch> [<start point>]::
+'git checkout' -b|-B <new_branch> [<start point>]::
 
 	This form switches branches by updating the index, working
 	tree, and HEAD to reflect the specified branch.
@@ -31,17 +31,28 @@ were called and then checked out; in this case you can
 use the `--track` or `--no-track` options, which will be passed to
 'git branch'.  As a convenience, `--track` without `-b` implies branch
 creation; see the description of `--track` below.
++
+If `-B` is given, <new_branch> is created if it doesn't exist; otherwise, it
+is reset. This is the transactional equivalent of
++
+------------
+$ git branch -f <branch> [<start point>]
+$ git checkout <branch>
+------------
++
+that is to say, the branch is not reset/created unless "git checkout" is
+successful.
 
 'git checkout' [--patch] [<tree-ish>] [--] <pathspec>...::
 
-	When <paths> or `--patch` are given, 'git checkout' *not* switch
-	branches.  It updates the named paths in the working tree from
-	the index file or from a named <tree-ish> (most often a commit).  In
-	this case, the `-b` and `--track` options are meaningless and giving
-	either of them results in an error. The <tree-ish> argument can be
-	used to specify a specific tree-ish (i.e. commit, tag or tree)
-	to update the index for the given paths before updating the
-	working tree.
+	When <paths> or `--patch` are given, 'git checkout' does *not*
+	switch branches.  It updates the named paths in the working tree
+	from the index file or from a named <tree-ish> (most often a
+	commit).  In this case, the `-b` and `--track` options are
+	meaningless and giving either of them results in an error.  The
+	<tree-ish> argument can be used to specify a specific tree-ish
+	(i.e.  commit, tag or tree) to update the index for the given
+	paths before updating the working tree.
 +
 The index may contain unmerged entries because of a previous failed merge.
 By default, if you try to check out such an entry from the index, the
@@ -75,13 +86,19 @@ entries; instead, unmerged entries are ignored.
 	Create a new branch named <new_branch> and start it at
 	<start_point>; see linkgit:git-branch[1] for details.
 
+-B::
+	Creates the branch <new_branch> and start it at <start_point>;
+	if it already exists, then reset it to <start_point>. This is
+	equivalent to running "git branch" with "-f"; see
+	linkgit:git-branch[1] for details.
+
 -t::
 --track::
 	When creating a new branch, set up "upstream" configuration. See
 	"--track" in linkgit:git-branch[1] for details.
 +
 If no '-b' option is given, the name of the new branch will be
-derived from the remote branch.  If "remotes/" or "refs/remotes/"
+derived from the remote-tracking branch.  If "remotes/" or "refs/remotes/"
 is prefixed it is stripped away, and then the part up to the
 next slash (which would be the nickname of the remote) is removed.
 This would tell us to use "hack" as the local branch when branching
@@ -170,7 +187,7 @@ As a special case, the `"@\{-N\}"` syntax for the N-th last branch
 checks out the branch (instead of detaching).  You may also specify
 `-` which is synonymous with `"@\{-1\}"`.
 +
-As a further special case, you may use `"A...B"` as a shortcut for the
+As a further special case, you may use `"A\...B"` as a shortcut for the
 merge base of `A` and `B` if there is exactly one merge base. You can
 leave out at most one of `A` and `B`, in which case it defaults to `HEAD`.
 
diff --git a/Documentation/git-cherry-pick.txt b/Documentation/git-cherry-pick.txt
index 2cef579..7300870 100644
--- a/Documentation/git-cherry-pick.txt
+++ b/Documentation/git-cherry-pick.txt
@@ -21,7 +21,7 @@ OPTIONS
 <commit>...::
 	Commits to cherry-pick.
 	For a more complete list of ways to spell commits, see
-	linkgit:gitrevisions[1].
+	linkgit:gitrevisions[7].
 	Sets of commits can be passed but no traversal is done by
 	default, as if the '--no-walk' option was specified, see
 	linkgit:git-rev-list[1].
@@ -92,7 +92,7 @@ git cherry-pick ^HEAD master::
 	Apply the changes introduced by all commits that are ancestors
 	of master but not of HEAD to produce new commits.
 
-git cherry-pick master\~4 master~2::
+git cherry-pick master{tilde}4 master{tilde}2::
 
 	Apply the changes introduced by the fifth and third last
 	commits pointed to by master and create 2 new commits with
diff --git a/Documentation/git-clean.txt b/Documentation/git-clean.txt
index a81cb6c..60e38e6 100644
--- a/Documentation/git-clean.txt
+++ b/Documentation/git-clean.txt
@@ -8,7 +8,7 @@ git-clean - Remove untracked files from the working tree
 SYNOPSIS
 --------
 [verse]
-'git clean' [-d] [-f] [-n] [-q] [-x | -X] [--] <path>...
+'git clean' [-d] [-f] [-n] [-q] [-e <pattern>] [-x | -X] [--] <path>...
 
 DESCRIPTION
 -----------
@@ -45,6 +45,12 @@ OPTIONS
 	Be quiet, only report errors, but not the files that are
 	successfully removed.
 
+-e <pattern>::
+--exclude=<pattern>::
+	Specify special exceptions to not be cleaned.  Each <pattern> is
+	the same form as in $GIT_DIR/info/excludes and this option can be
+	given multiple times.
+
 -x::
 	Don't use the ignore rules.  This allows removing all untracked
 	files, including build products.  This can be used (possibly in
diff --git a/Documentation/git-clone.txt b/Documentation/git-clone.txt
index dc7d3d1..42e7021 100644
--- a/Documentation/git-clone.txt
+++ b/Documentation/git-clone.txt
@@ -12,7 +12,8 @@ SYNOPSIS
 'git clone' [--template=<template_directory>]
 	  [-l] [-s] [--no-hardlinks] [-q] [-n] [--bare] [--mirror]
 	  [-o <name>] [-b <name>] [-u <upload-pack>] [--reference <repository>]
-	  [--depth <depth>] [--recursive] [--] <repository> [<directory>]
+	  [--depth <depth>] [--recursive|--recurse-submodules] [--] <repository>
+	  [<directory>]
 
 DESCRIPTION
 -----------
@@ -128,7 +129,12 @@ objects from the source repository into a pack in the cloned repository.
 	configuration variables are created.
 
 --mirror::
-	Set up a mirror of the remote repository.  This implies `--bare`.
+	Set up a mirror of the source repository.  This implies `--bare`.
+	Compared to `--bare`, `--mirror` not only maps local branches of the
+	source to local branches of the target, it maps all refs (including
+	remote-tracking branches, notes etc.) and sets up a refspec configuration such
+	that all these refs are overwritten by a `git remote update` in the
+	target repository.
 
 --origin <name>::
 -o <name>::
@@ -162,6 +168,7 @@ objects from the source repository into a pack in the cloned repository.
 	as patches.
 
 --recursive::
+--recurse-submodules::
 	After the clone is created, initialize all submodules within,
 	using their default settings. This is equivalent to running
 	`git submodule update --init --recursive` immediately after
diff --git a/Documentation/git-commit-tree.txt b/Documentation/git-commit-tree.txt
index 6188854..5dcf427 100644
--- a/Documentation/git-commit-tree.txt
+++ b/Documentation/git-commit-tree.txt
@@ -8,7 +8,7 @@ git-commit-tree - Create a new commit object
 
 SYNOPSIS
 --------
-'git commit-tree' <tree> [-p <parent commit>]\* < changelog
+'git commit-tree' <tree> [(-p <parent commit>)...] < changelog
 
 DESCRIPTION
 -----------
diff --git a/Documentation/git-commit.txt b/Documentation/git-commit.txt
index c28603e..ec7b577 100644
--- a/Documentation/git-commit.txt
+++ b/Documentation/git-commit.txt
@@ -11,8 +11,8 @@ SYNOPSIS
 'git commit' [-a | --interactive] [-s] [-v] [-u<mode>] [--amend] [--dry-run]
 	   [(-c | -C) <commit>] [-F <file> | -m <msg>] [--reset-author]
 	   [--allow-empty] [--allow-empty-message] [--no-verify] [-e] [--author=<author>]
-	   [--date=<date>] [--cleanup=<mode>] [--status | --no-status] [--]
-	   [[-i | -o ]<file>...]
+	   [--date=<date>] [--cleanup=<mode>] [--status | --no-status]
+	   [-i | -o] [--] [<file>...]
 
 DESCRIPTION
 -----------
@@ -130,11 +130,11 @@ OPTIONS
 	Usually recording a commit that has the exact same tree as its
 	sole parent commit is a mistake, and the command prevents you
 	from making such a commit.  This option bypasses the safety, and
-	is primarily for use by foreign scm interface scripts.
+	is primarily for use by foreign SCM interface scripts.
 
 --allow-empty-message::
        Like --allow-empty this command is primarily for use by foreign
-       scm interface scripts. It allows you to create a commit with an
+       SCM interface scripts. It allows you to create a commit with an
        empty commit message without using plumbing commands like
        linkgit:git-commit-tree[1].
 
diff --git a/Documentation/git-cvsexportcommit.txt b/Documentation/git-cvsexportcommit.txt
index b2696ef..d25661e 100644
--- a/Documentation/git-cvsexportcommit.txt
+++ b/Documentation/git-cvsexportcommit.txt
@@ -114,11 +114,11 @@ $ git cherry cvshead myhead | sed -n 's/^+ //p' | xargs -l1 git cvsexportcommit
 
 Author
 ------
-Written by Martin Langhoff <martin@catalyst.net.nz> and others.
+Written by Martin Langhoff <martin@laptop.org> and others.
 
 Documentation
 --------------
-Documentation by Martin Langhoff <martin@catalyst.net.nz> and others.
+Documentation by Martin Langhoff <martin@laptop.org> and others.
 
 GIT
 ---
diff --git a/Documentation/git-cvsimport.txt b/Documentation/git-cvsimport.txt
index 8bcd875..608cd63 100644
--- a/Documentation/git-cvsimport.txt
+++ b/Documentation/git-cvsimport.txt
@@ -188,7 +188,7 @@ ISSUES
 ------
 Problems related to timestamps:
 
- * If timestamps of commits in the cvs repository are not stable enough
+ * If timestamps of commits in the CVS repository are not stable enough
    to be used for ordering commits changes may show up in the wrong
    order.
  * If any files were ever "cvs import"ed more than once (e.g., import of
@@ -201,7 +201,7 @@ Problems related to branches:
 
  * Branches on which no commits have been made are not imported.
  * All files from the branching point are added to a branch even if
-   never added in cvs.
+   never added in CVS.
  * This applies to files added to the source branch *after* a daughter
    branch was created: if previously no commit was made on the daughter
    branch they will erroneously be added to the daughter branch in git.
diff --git a/Documentation/git-cvsserver.txt b/Documentation/git-cvsserver.txt
index 7004dd2..70cbb2c 100644
--- a/Documentation/git-cvsserver.txt
+++ b/Documentation/git-cvsserver.txt
@@ -366,8 +366,8 @@ CRLF Line Ending Conversions
 ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
 
 By default the server leaves the '-k' mode blank for all files,
-which causes the cvs client to treat them as a text files, subject
-to crlf conversion on some platforms.
+which causes the CVS client to treat them as a text files, subject
+to end-of-line conversion on some platforms.
 
 You can make the server use the end-of-line conversion attributes to
 set the '-k' modes for files by setting the `gitcvs.usecrlfattr`
@@ -399,13 +399,13 @@ This program is copyright The Open University UK - 2006.
 Authors:
 
 - Martyn Smith    <martyn@catalyst.net.nz>
-- Martin Langhoff <martin@catalyst.net.nz>
+- Martin Langhoff <martin@laptop.org>
 
 with ideas and patches from participants of the git-list <git@vger.kernel.org>.
 
 Documentation
 --------------
-Documentation by Martyn Smith <martyn@catalyst.net.nz>, Martin Langhoff <martin@catalyst.net.nz>, and Matthias Urlichs <smurf@smurf.noris.de>.
+Documentation by Martyn Smith <martyn@catalyst.net.nz>, Martin Langhoff <martin@laptop.org>, and Matthias Urlichs <smurf@smurf.noris.de>.
 
 GIT
 ---
diff --git a/Documentation/git-daemon.txt b/Documentation/git-daemon.txt
index 01c9f8e..d15cb6a 100644
--- a/Documentation/git-daemon.txt
+++ b/Documentation/git-daemon.txt
@@ -9,15 +9,15 @@ SYNOPSIS
 --------
 [verse]
 'git daemon' [--verbose] [--syslog] [--export-all]
-	     [--timeout=n] [--init-timeout=n] [--max-connections=n]
-	     [--strict-paths] [--base-path=path] [--base-path-relaxed]
-	     [--user-path | --user-path=path]
-	     [--interpolated-path=pathtemplate]
-	     [--reuseaddr] [--detach] [--pid-file=file]
-	     [--enable=service] [--disable=service]
-	     [--allow-override=service] [--forbid-override=service]
-	     [--inetd | [--listen=host_or_ipaddr] [--port=n] [--user=user [--group=group]]
-	     [directory...]
+	     [--timeout=<n>] [--init-timeout=<n>] [--max-connections=<n>]
+	     [--strict-paths] [--base-path=<path>] [--base-path-relaxed]
+	     [--user-path | --user-path=<path>]
+	     [--interpolated-path=<pathtemplate>]
+	     [--reuseaddr] [--detach] [--pid-file=<file>]
+	     [--enable=<service>] [--disable=<service>]
+	     [--allow-override=<service>] [--forbid-override=<service>]
+	     [--inetd | [--listen=<host_or_ipaddr>] [--port=<n>] [--user=<user> [--group=<group>]]
+	     [<directory>...]
 
 DESCRIPTION
 -----------
@@ -48,7 +48,7 @@ OPTIONS
 	'git daemon' will refuse to start when this option is enabled and no
 	whitelist is specified.
 
---base-path=path::
+--base-path=<path>::
 	Remap all the path requests as relative to the given path.
 	This is sort of "GIT root" - if you run 'git daemon' with
 	'--base-path=/srv/git' on example.com, then if you later try to pull
@@ -61,7 +61,7 @@ OPTIONS
 	This is useful for switching to --base-path usage, while still
 	allowing the old paths.
 
---interpolated-path=pathtemplate::
+--interpolated-path=<pathtemplate>::
 	To support virtual hosting, an interpolated path template can be
 	used to dynamically construct alternate paths.  The template
 	supports %H for the target hostname as supplied by the client but
@@ -78,29 +78,31 @@ OPTIONS
 
 --inetd::
 	Have the server run as an inetd service. Implies --syslog.
-	Incompatible with --port, --listen, --user and --group options.
+	Incompatible with --detach, --port, --listen, --user and --group
+	options.
 
---listen=host_or_ipaddr::
+--listen=<host_or_ipaddr>::
 	Listen on a specific IP address or hostname.  IP addresses can
 	be either an IPv4 address or an IPv6 address if supported.  If IPv6
 	is not supported, then --listen=hostname is also not supported and
 	--listen must be given an IPv4 address.
+	Can be given more than once.
 	Incompatible with '--inetd' option.
 
---port=n::
+--port=<n>::
 	Listen on an alternative port.  Incompatible with '--inetd' option.
 
---init-timeout=n::
+--init-timeout=<n>::
 	Timeout between the moment the connection is established and the
 	client request is received (typically a rather low value, since
 	that should be basically immediate).
 
---timeout=n::
+--timeout=<n>::
 	Timeout for specific client sub-requests. This includes the time
 	it takes for the server to process the sub-request and the time spent
 	waiting for the next client's request.
 
---max-connections=n::
+--max-connections=<n>::
 	Maximum number of concurrent clients, defaults to 32.  Set it to
 	zero for no limit.
 
@@ -109,7 +111,7 @@ OPTIONS
 	--verbose, thus by default only error conditions will be logged.
 
 --user-path::
---user-path=path::
+--user-path=<path>::
 	Allow {tilde}user notation to be used in requests.  When
 	specified with no parameter, requests to
 	git://host/{tilde}alice/foo is taken as a request to access
@@ -129,12 +131,12 @@ OPTIONS
 --detach::
 	Detach from the shell. Implies --syslog.
 
---pid-file=file::
+--pid-file=<file>::
 	Save the process id in 'file'.  Ignored when the daemon
 	is run under `--inetd`.
 
---user=user::
---group=group::
+--user=<user>::
+--group=<group>::
 	Change daemon's uid and gid before entering the service loop.
 	When only `--user` is given without `--group`, the
 	primary group ID for the user is used.  The values of
@@ -145,16 +147,16 @@ Giving these options is an error when used with `--inetd`; use
 the facility of inet daemon to achieve the same before spawning
 'git daemon' if needed.
 
---enable=service::
---disable=service::
+--enable=<service>::
+--disable=<service>::
 	Enable/disable the service site-wide per default.  Note
 	that a service disabled site-wide can still be enabled
 	per repository if it is marked overridable and the
 	repository enables the service with a configuration
 	item.
 
---allow-override=service::
---forbid-override=service::
+--allow-override=<service>::
+--forbid-override=<service>::
 	Allow/forbid overriding the site-wide default with per
 	repository configuration.  By default, all the services
 	are overridable.
diff --git a/Documentation/git-describe.txt b/Documentation/git-describe.txt
index 7ef9d51..02e015a 100644
--- a/Documentation/git-describe.txt
+++ b/Documentation/git-describe.txt
@@ -37,7 +37,7 @@ OPTIONS
 --all::
 	Instead of using only the annotated tags, use any ref
 	found in `.git/refs/`.  This option enables matching
-	any known branch, remote branch, or lightweight tag.
+	any known branch, remote-tracking branch, or lightweight tag.
 
 --tags::
 	Instead of using only the annotated tags, use any tag
diff --git a/Documentation/git-diff.txt b/Documentation/git-diff.txt
index 08fd409..dd1fb32 100644
--- a/Documentation/git-diff.txt
+++ b/Documentation/git-diff.txt
@@ -23,9 +23,9 @@ tree and the index file, or the index file and the working tree.
 	further add to the index but you still haven't.  You can
 	stage these changes by using linkgit:git-add[1].
 +
-If exactly two paths are given, and at least one is untracked,
-compare the two files / directories. This behavior can be
-forced by --no-index.
+If exactly two paths are given and at least one points outside
+the current repository, 'git diff' will compare the two files /
+directories. This behavior can be forced by --no-index.
 
 'git diff' [--options] --cached [<commit>] [--] [<path>...]::
 
@@ -64,15 +64,16 @@ forced by --no-index.
 
 Just in case if you are doing something exotic, it should be
 noted that all of the <commit> in the above description, except
-for the last two forms that use ".." notations, can be any
-<tree-ish>.
+in the last two forms that use ".." notations, can be any
+<tree>.  The third form ('git diff <commit> <commit>') can also
+be used to compare two <blob> objects.
 
 For a more complete list of ways to spell <commit>, see
-"SPECIFYING REVISIONS" section in linkgit:gitrevisions[1].
+"SPECIFYING REVISIONS" section in linkgit:gitrevisions[7].
 However, "diff" is about comparing two _endpoints_, not ranges,
 and the range notations ("<commit>..<commit>" and
 "<commit>\...<commit>") do not mean a range as defined in the
-"SPECIFYING RANGES" section in linkgit:gitrevisions[1].
+"SPECIFYING RANGES" section in linkgit:gitrevisions[7].
 
 OPTIONS
 -------
@@ -159,8 +160,12 @@ rewrites (very expensive).
 
 SEE ALSO
 --------
-linkgit:git-difftool[1]::
-	Show changes using common diff tools
+diff(1),
+linkgit:git-difftool[1],
+linkgit:git-log[1],
+linkgit:gitdiffcore[7],
+linkgit:git-format-patch[1],
+linkgit:git-apply[1]
 
 Author
 ------
diff --git a/Documentation/git-fast-export.txt b/Documentation/git-fast-export.txt
index 98ec6b5..e05b686 100644
--- a/Documentation/git-fast-export.txt
+++ b/Documentation/git-fast-export.txt
@@ -90,10 +90,16 @@ marks the same across runs.
 	resulting stream can only be used by a repository which
 	already contains the necessary objects.
 
-[git-rev-list-args...]::
+--full-tree::
+	This option will cause fast-export to issue a "deleteall"
+	directive for each commit followed by a full list of all files
+	in the commit (as opposed to just listing the files which are
+	different from the commit's first parent).
+
+[<git-rev-list-args>...]::
        A list of arguments, acceptable to 'git rev-parse' and
        'git rev-list', that specifies the specific objects and references
-       to export.  For example, `master\~10..master` causes the
+       to export.  For example, `master{tilde}10..master` causes the
        current master reference to be exported along with all objects
        added since its 10th ancestor commit.
 
diff --git a/Documentation/git-fast-import.txt b/Documentation/git-fast-import.txt
index 77a0a24..5d0c245 100644
--- a/Documentation/git-fast-import.txt
+++ b/Documentation/git-fast-import.txt
@@ -439,7 +439,7 @@ Marks must be declared (via `mark`) before they can be used.
 * A complete 40 byte or abbreviated commit SHA-1 in hex.
 
 * Any valid Git SHA-1 expression that resolves to a commit.  See
-  ``SPECIFYING REVISIONS'' in linkgit:gitrevisions[1] for details.
+  ``SPECIFYING REVISIONS'' in linkgit:gitrevisions[7] for details.
 
 The special case of restarting an incremental import from the
 current branch value should be written as:
@@ -482,9 +482,11 @@ External data format::
 	'M' SP <mode> SP <dataref> SP <path> LF
 ....
 +
-Here `<dataref>` can be either a mark reference (`:<idnum>`)
+Here usually `<dataref>` must be either a mark reference (`:<idnum>`)
 set by a prior `blob` command, or a full 40-byte SHA-1 of an
-existing Git blob object.
+existing Git blob object.  If `<mode>` is `040000`` then
+`<dataref>` must be the full 40-byte SHA-1 of an existing
+Git tree object or a mark reference set with `--import-marks`.
 
 Inline data format::
 	The data content for the file has not been supplied yet.
@@ -509,6 +511,8 @@ in octal.  Git only supports the following modes:
 * `160000`: A gitlink, SHA-1 of the object refers to a commit in
   another repository. Git links can only be specified by SHA or through
   a commit mark. They are used to implement submodules.
+* `040000`: A subdirectory.  Subdirectories can only be specified by
+  SHA or through a tree mark set with `--import-marks`.
 
 In both formats `<path>` is the complete path of the file to be added
 (if not already existing) or modified (if already existing).
@@ -520,6 +524,9 @@ start with double quote (`"`).
 If an `LF` or double quote must be encoded into `<path>` shell-style
 quoting should be used, e.g. `"path/with\n and \" in it"`.
 
+Additionally, in `040000` mode, `<path>` may also be an empty string
+(`""`) to specify the root of the tree.
+
 The value of `<path>` must be in canonical form. That is it must not:
 
 * contain an empty directory component (e.g. `foo//bar` is invalid),
diff --git a/Documentation/git-fetch.txt b/Documentation/git-fetch.txt
index 400fe7f..c76e313 100644
--- a/Documentation/git-fetch.txt
+++ b/Documentation/git-fetch.txt
@@ -12,7 +12,7 @@ SYNOPSIS
 
 'git fetch' [<options>] <group>
 
-'git fetch' --multiple [<options>] [<repository> | <group>]...
+'git fetch' --multiple [<options>] [(<repository> | <group>)...]
 
 'git fetch' --all [<options>]
 
@@ -26,7 +26,7 @@ The ref names and their object names of fetched refs are stored
 in `.git/FETCH_HEAD`.  This information is left for a later merge
 operation done by 'git merge'.
 
-When <refspec> stores the fetched result in tracking branches,
+When <refspec> stores the fetched result in remote-tracking branches,
 the tags that point at these branches are automatically
 followed.  This is done by first fetching from the remote using
 the given <refspec>s, and if the repository has objects that are
diff --git a/Documentation/git-filter-branch.txt b/Documentation/git-filter-branch.txt
index 020028c..796e748 100644
--- a/Documentation/git-filter-branch.txt
+++ b/Documentation/git-filter-branch.txt
@@ -81,7 +81,7 @@ OPTIONS
 	This filter may be used if you only need to modify the environment
 	in which the commit will be performed.  Specifically, you might
 	want to rewrite the author/committer name/email/time environment
-	variables (see linkgit:git-commit[1] for details).  Do not forget
+	variables (see linkgit:git-commit-tree[1] for details).  Do not forget
 	to re-export the variables.
 
 --tree-filter <command>::
@@ -117,7 +117,7 @@ OPTIONS
 	This is the filter for performing the commit.
 	If this filter is specified, it will be called instead of the
 	'git commit-tree' command, with arguments of the form
-	"<TREE_ID> [-p <PARENT_COMMIT_ID>]..." and the log message on
+	"<TREE_ID> [(-p <PARENT_COMMIT_ID>)...]" and the log message on
 	stdin.  The commit id is expected on stdout.
 +
 As a special extension, the commit filter may emit multiple
@@ -159,18 +159,7 @@ to other tags will be rewritten to point to the underlying commit.
 --subdirectory-filter <directory>::
 	Only look at the history which touches the given subdirectory.
 	The result will contain that directory (and only that) as its
-	project root.  Implies --remap-to-ancestor.
-
---remap-to-ancestor::
-	Rewrite refs to the nearest rewritten ancestor instead of
-	ignoring them.
-+
-Normally, positive refs on the command line are only changed if the
-commit they point to was rewritten.  However, you can limit the extent
-of this rewriting by using linkgit:rev-list[1] arguments, e.g., path
-limiters.  Refs pointing to such excluded commits would then normally
-be ignored.  With this option, they are instead rewritten to point at
-the nearest ancestor that was not excluded.
+	project root. Implies <<Remap_to_ancestor>>.
 
 --prune-empty::
 	Some kind of filters will generate empty commits, that left the tree
@@ -204,7 +193,18 @@ the nearest ancestor that was not excluded.
 	Arguments for 'git rev-list'.  All positive refs included by
 	these options are rewritten.  You may also specify options
 	such as '--all', but you must use '--' to separate them from
-	the 'git filter-branch' options.
+	the 'git filter-branch' options. Implies <<Remap_to_ancestor>>.
+
+
+[[Remap_to_ancestor]]
+Remap to ancestor
+~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
+
+By using linkgit:rev-list[1] arguments, e.g., path limiters, you can limit the
+set of revisions which get rewritten. However, positive refs on the command
+line are distinguished: we don't let them be excluded by such limiters. For
+this purpose, they are instead rewritten to point at the nearest ancestor that
+was not excluded.
 
 
 Examples
diff --git a/Documentation/git-fmt-merge-msg.txt b/Documentation/git-fmt-merge-msg.txt
index a585dbe..40dba8c 100644
--- a/Documentation/git-fmt-merge-msg.txt
+++ b/Documentation/git-fmt-merge-msg.txt
@@ -9,8 +9,8 @@ git-fmt-merge-msg - Produce a merge commit message
 SYNOPSIS
 --------
 [verse]
-'git fmt-merge-msg' [--log | --no-log] <$GIT_DIR/FETCH_HEAD
-'git fmt-merge-msg' [--log | --no-log] -F <file>
+'git fmt-merge-msg' [-m <message>] [--log[=<n>] | --no-log] <$GIT_DIR/FETCH_HEAD
+'git fmt-merge-msg' [-m <message>] [--log[=<n>] | --no-log] -F <file>
 
 DESCRIPTION
 -----------
@@ -24,10 +24,12 @@ automatically invoking 'git merge'.
 OPTIONS
 -------
 
---log::
+--log[=<n>]::
 	In addition to branch names, populate the log message with
 	one-line descriptions from the actual commits that are being
-	merged.
+	merged.  At most <n> commits from each merge parent will be
+	used (20 if <n> is omitted).  This overrides the `merge.log`
+	configuration variable.
 
 --no-log::
 	Do not list one-line descriptions from the actual commits being
@@ -38,6 +40,11 @@ OPTIONS
 	Synonyms to --log and --no-log; these are deprecated and will be
 	removed in the future.
 
+-m <message>::
+--message <message>::
+	Use <message> instead of the branch names for the first line
+	of the log message.  For use with `--log`.
+
 -F <file>::
 --file <file>::
 	Take the list of merged objects from <file> instead of
@@ -47,8 +54,10 @@ CONFIGURATION
 -------------
 
 merge.log::
-	Whether to include summaries of merged commits in newly
-	merge commit messages. False by default.
+	In addition to branch names, populate the log message with at
+	most the specified number of one-line descriptions from the
+	actual commits that are being merged.  Defaults to false, and
+	true is a synoym for 20.
 
 merge.summary::
 	Synonym to `merge.log`; this is deprecated and will be removed in
diff --git a/Documentation/git-for-each-ref.txt b/Documentation/git-for-each-ref.txt
index 390d85c..fac1cf5 100644
--- a/Documentation/git-for-each-ref.txt
+++ b/Documentation/git-for-each-ref.txt
@@ -9,7 +9,7 @@ SYNOPSIS
 --------
 [verse]
 'git for-each-ref' [--count=<count>] [--shell|--perl|--python|--tcl]
-		   [--sort=<key>]\* [--format=<format>] [<pattern>...]
+		   [(--sort=<key>)...] [--format=<format>] [<pattern>...]
 
 DESCRIPTION
 -----------
diff --git a/Documentation/git-format-patch.txt b/Documentation/git-format-patch.txt
index 4b3f5ba..9dcafc6 100644
--- a/Documentation/git-format-patch.txt
+++ b/Documentation/git-format-patch.txt
@@ -39,7 +39,7 @@ There are two ways to specify which commits to operate on.
    that leads to the <since> to be output.
 
 2. Generic <revision range> expression (see "SPECIFYING
-   REVISIONS" section in linkgit:gitrevisions[1]) means the
+   REVISIONS" section in linkgit:gitrevisions[7]) means the
    commits in the specified range.
 
 The first rule takes precedence in the case of a single <commit>.  To
@@ -74,7 +74,7 @@ OPTIONS
 include::diff-options.txt[]
 
 -<n>::
-	Limits the number of patches to prepare.
+	Prepare patches from the topmost <n> commits.
 
 -o <dir>::
 --output-directory <dir>::
diff --git a/Documentation/git-gc.txt b/Documentation/git-gc.txt
index 315f07e..801aede 100644
--- a/Documentation/git-gc.txt
+++ b/Documentation/git-gc.txt
@@ -89,7 +89,7 @@ are not part of the current project most users will want to expire
 them sooner.  This option defaults to '30 days'.
 
 The above two configuration variables can be given to a pattern.  For
-example, this sets non-default expiry values only to remote tracking
+example, this sets non-default expiry values only to remote-tracking
 branches:
 
 ------------
@@ -128,8 +128,8 @@ Notes
 
 'git gc' tries very hard to be safe about the garbage it collects. In
 particular, it will keep not only objects referenced by your current set
-of branches and tags, but also objects referenced by the index, remote
-tracking branches, refs saved by 'git filter-branch' in
+of branches and tags, but also objects referenced by the index,
+remote-tracking branches, refs saved by 'git filter-branch' in
 refs/original/, or reflogs (which may reference commits in branches
 that were later amended or rewound).
 
diff --git a/Documentation/git-grep.txt b/Documentation/git-grep.txt
index 5474dd7..dab0a78 100644
--- a/Documentation/git-grep.txt
+++ b/Documentation/git-grep.txt
@@ -191,11 +191,11 @@ OPTIONS
 Examples
 --------
 
-git grep 'time_t' \-- '*.[ch]'::
+git grep {apostrophe}time_t{apostrophe} \-- {apostrophe}*.[ch]{apostrophe}::
 	Looks for `time_t` in all tracked .c and .h files in the working
 	directory and its subdirectories.
 
-git grep -e \'#define\' --and \( -e MAX_PATH -e PATH_MAX \)::
+git grep -e {apostrophe}#define{apostrophe} --and \( -e MAX_PATH -e PATH_MAX \)::
 	Looks for a line that has `#define` and either `MAX_PATH` or
 	`PATH_MAX`.
 
diff --git a/Documentation/git-hash-object.txt b/Documentation/git-hash-object.txt
index 6904739..51edeec 100644
--- a/Documentation/git-hash-object.txt
+++ b/Documentation/git-hash-object.txt
@@ -49,7 +49,7 @@ OPTIONS
 
 --no-filters::
 	Hash the contents as is, ignoring any input filter that would
-	have been chosen by the attributes mechanism, including crlf
+	have been chosen by the attributes mechanism, including the end-of-line
 	conversion. If the file is read from standard input then this
 	is always implied, unless the --path option is given.
 
diff --git a/Documentation/git-help.txt b/Documentation/git-help.txt
index f8df109d..eccd0ff 100644
--- a/Documentation/git-help.txt
+++ b/Documentation/git-help.txt
@@ -55,9 +55,9 @@ other display programs (see below).
 +
 The web browser can be specified using the configuration variable
 'help.browser', or 'web.browser' if the former is not set. If none of
-these config variables is set, the 'git web--browse' helper script
+these config variables is set, the 'git web{litdd}browse' helper script
 (called by 'git help') will pick a suitable default. See
-linkgit:git-web--browse[1] for more information about this.
+linkgit:git-web{litdd}browse[1] for more information about this.
 
 CONFIGURATION VARIABLES
 -----------------------
@@ -80,7 +80,7 @@ help.browser, web.browser and browser.<tool>.path
 The 'help.browser', 'web.browser' and 'browser.<tool>.path' will also
 be checked if the 'web' format is chosen (either by command line
 option or configuration variable). See '-w|--web' in the OPTIONS
-section above and linkgit:git-web--browse[1].
+section above and linkgit:git-web{litdd}browse[1].
 
 man.viewer
 ~~~~~~~~~~
diff --git a/Documentation/git-index-pack.txt b/Documentation/git-index-pack.txt
index f3ccc72..c2bb810 100644
--- a/Documentation/git-index-pack.txt
+++ b/Documentation/git-index-pack.txt
@@ -59,10 +59,10 @@ OPTIONS
 	the newly constructed pack and index before refs can be
 	updated to use objects contained in the pack.
 
---keep='why'::
+--keep=<msg>::
 	Like --keep create a .keep file before moving the index into
 	its final destination, but rather than creating an empty file
-	place 'why' followed by an LF into the .keep file.  The 'why'
+	place '<msg>' followed by an LF into the .keep file.  The '<msg>'
 	message can later be searched for within all .keep files to
 	locate any which have outlived their usefulness.
 
diff --git a/Documentation/git-init.txt b/Documentation/git-init.txt
index 246b07e..00d4a12 100644
--- a/Documentation/git-init.txt
+++ b/Documentation/git-init.txt
@@ -31,7 +31,7 @@ current working directory.
 Specify the directory from which templates will be used.  (See the "TEMPLATE
 DIRECTORY" section below.)
 
---shared[={false|true|umask|group|all|world|everybody|0xxx}]::
+--shared[=(false|true|umask|group|all|world|everybody|0xxx)]::
 
 Specify that the git repository is to be shared amongst several users.  This
 allows users belonging to the same group to push into that
diff --git a/Documentation/git-instaweb.txt b/Documentation/git-instaweb.txt
index e70cea9..7477ce8 100644
--- a/Documentation/git-instaweb.txt
+++ b/Documentation/git-instaweb.txt
@@ -44,9 +44,9 @@ OPTIONS
 -b::
 --browser::
 	The web browser that should be used to view the gitweb
-	page. This will be passed to the 'git web--browse' helper
+	page. This will be passed to the 'git web{litdd}browse' helper
 	script along with the URL of the gitweb instance. See
-	linkgit:git-web--browse[1] for more information about this. If
+	linkgit:git-web{litdd}browse[1] for more information about this. If
 	the script fails, the URL will be printed to stdout.
 
 start::
@@ -82,7 +82,7 @@ You may specify configuration in your .git/config
 
 If the configuration variable 'instaweb.browser' is not set,
 'web.browser' will be used instead if it is defined. See
-linkgit:git-web--browse[1] for more information about this.
+linkgit:git-web{litdd}browse[1] for more information about this.
 
 Author
 ------
diff --git a/Documentation/git-log.txt b/Documentation/git-log.txt
index c213bdb..ff41784 100644
--- a/Documentation/git-log.txt
+++ b/Documentation/git-log.txt
@@ -31,7 +31,7 @@ OPTIONS
 	either <since> or <until> is omitted, it defaults to
 	`HEAD`, i.e. the tip of the current branch.
 	For a more complete list of ways to spell <since>
-	and <until>, see linkgit:gitrevisions[1].
+	and <until>, see linkgit:gitrevisions[7].
 
 --follow::
 	Continue listing the history of a file beyond renames
@@ -116,7 +116,7 @@ git log --follow builtin-rev-list.c::
 git log --branches --not --remotes=origin::
 
 	Shows all commits that are in any of local branches but not in
-	any of remote tracking branches for 'origin' (what you have that
+	any of remote-tracking branches for 'origin' (what you have that
 	origin doesn't).
 
 git log master --not --remotes=*/master::
diff --git a/Documentation/git-ls-files.txt b/Documentation/git-ls-files.txt
index a7c8174..86abd13 100644
--- a/Documentation/git-ls-files.txt
+++ b/Documentation/git-ls-files.txt
@@ -10,14 +10,14 @@ SYNOPSIS
 --------
 [verse]
 'git ls-files' [-z] [-t] [-v]
-		(--[cached|deleted|others|ignored|stage|unmerged|killed|modified])\*
-		(-[c|d|o|i|s|u|k|m])\*
+		(--[cached|deleted|others|ignored|stage|unmerged|killed|modified])*
+		(-[c|d|o|i|s|u|k|m])*
 		[-x <pattern>|--exclude=<pattern>]
 		[-X <file>|--exclude-from=<file>]
 		[--exclude-per-directory=<file>]
 		[--exclude-standard]
 		[--error-unmatch] [--with-tree=<tree-ish>]
-		[--full-name] [--abbrev] [--] [<file>]\*
+		[--full-name] [--abbrev] [--] [<file>...]
 
 DESCRIPTION
 -----------
@@ -79,15 +79,16 @@ OPTIONS
 
 -x <pattern>::
 --exclude=<pattern>::
-	Skips files matching pattern.
-	Note that pattern is a shell wildcard pattern.
+	Skip untracked files matching pattern.
+	Note that pattern is a shell wildcard pattern. See EXCLUDE PATTERNS
+	below for more information.
 
 -X <file>::
 --exclude-from=<file>::
-	exclude patterns are read from <file>; 1 per line.
+	Read exclude patterns from <file>; 1 per line.
 
 --exclude-per-directory=<file>::
-	read additional exclude patterns that apply only to the
+	Read additional exclude patterns that apply only to the
 	directory and its subdirectories in <file>.
 
 --exclude-standard::
@@ -192,7 +193,7 @@ These exclude patterns come from these places, in order:
      file containing a list of patterns.  Patterns are ordered
      in the same order they appear in the file.
 
-  3. command line flag --exclude-per-directory=<name> specifies
+  3. The command line flag --exclude-per-directory=<name> specifies
      a name of the file in each directory 'git ls-files'
      examines, normally `.gitignore`.  Files in deeper
      directories take precedence.  Patterns are ordered in the
diff --git a/Documentation/git-ls-tree.txt b/Documentation/git-ls-tree.txt
index 1f89d36..76ed625 100644
--- a/Documentation/git-ls-tree.txt
+++ b/Documentation/git-ls-tree.txt
@@ -10,8 +10,8 @@ SYNOPSIS
 --------
 [verse]
 'git ls-tree' [-d] [-r] [-t] [-l] [-z]
-	    [--name-only] [--name-status] [--full-name] [--full-tree] [--abbrev=[<n>]]
-	    <tree-ish> [paths...]
+	    [--name-only] [--name-status] [--full-name] [--full-tree] [--abbrev[=<n>]]
+	    <tree-ish> [<path>...]
 
 DESCRIPTION
 -----------
@@ -19,11 +19,11 @@ Lists the contents of a given tree object, like what "/bin/ls -a" does
 in the current working directory.  Note that:
 
  - the behaviour is slightly different from that of "/bin/ls" in that the
-   'paths' denote just a list of patterns to match, e.g. so specifying
+   '<path>' denotes just a list of patterns to match, e.g. so specifying
    directory name (without '-r') will behave differently, and order of the
    arguments does not matter.
 
- - the behaviour is similar to that of "/bin/ls" in that the 'paths' is
+ - the behaviour is similar to that of "/bin/ls" in that the '<path>' is
    taken as relative to the current working directory.  E.g. when you are
    in a directory 'sub' that has a directory 'dir', you can run 'git
    ls-tree -r HEAD dir' to list the contents of the tree (that is
@@ -72,7 +72,7 @@ OPTIONS
 	Do not limit the listing to the current working directory.
 	Implies --full-name.
 
-paths::
+[<path>...]::
 	When paths are given, show them (note that this isn't really raw
 	pathnames, but rather a list of patterns to match).  Otherwise
 	implicitly uses the root level of the tree as the sole path argument.
diff --git a/Documentation/git-mailsplit.txt b/Documentation/git-mailsplit.txt
index a634485..71912a1 100644
--- a/Documentation/git-mailsplit.txt
+++ b/Documentation/git-mailsplit.txt
@@ -7,7 +7,7 @@ git-mailsplit - Simple UNIX mbox splitter program
 
 SYNOPSIS
 --------
-'git mailsplit' [-b] [-f<nn>] [-d<prec>] [--keep-cr] -o<directory> [--] [<mbox>|<Maildir>...]
+'git mailsplit' [-b] [-f<nn>] [-d<prec>] [--keep-cr] -o<directory> [--] [(<mbox>|<Maildir>)...]
 
 DESCRIPTION
 -----------
diff --git a/Documentation/git-merge-base.txt b/Documentation/git-merge-base.txt
index ce5b369..eedef1b 100644
--- a/Documentation/git-merge-base.txt
+++ b/Documentation/git-merge-base.txt
@@ -8,7 +8,9 @@ git-merge-base - Find as good common ancestors as possible for a merge
 
 SYNOPSIS
 --------
-'git merge-base' [-a|--all] <commit> <commit>...
+[verse]
+'git merge-base' [-a|--all] [--octopus] <commit> <commit>...
+'git merge-base' --independent <commit>...
 
 DESCRIPTION
 -----------
@@ -20,12 +22,12 @@ 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 base for a pair of commits.
 
-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, specifying only
-two commits on the command line means computing the merge base between
-the given two commits.
+Unless `--octopus` is given, 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, specifying only two commits on the command line means
+computing the merge base between the given two commits.
 
 As a consequence, the 'merge base' is not necessarily contained in each of the
 commit arguments if more than two commits are specified. This is different
@@ -37,6 +39,18 @@ OPTIONS
 --all::
 	Output all merge bases for the commits, instead of just one.
 
+--octopus::
+	Compute the best common ancestors of all supplied commits,
+	in preparation for an n-way merge.  This mimics the behavior
+	of 'git show-branch --merge-base'.
+
+--independent::
+	Instead of printing merge bases, print a minimal subset of
+	the supplied commits with the same ancestors.  In other words,
+	among the commits given, list those which cannot be reached
+	from any other.  This mimics the behavior of 'git show-branch
+	--independent'.
+
 DISCUSSION
 ----------
 
@@ -96,6 +110,12 @@ Documentation
 --------------
 Documentation by David Greaves, Junio C Hamano and the git-list <git@vger.kernel.org>.
 
+See also
+--------
+linkgit:git-rev-list[1],
+linkgit:git-show-branch[1],
+linkgit:git-merge[1]
+
 GIT
 ---
 Part of the linkgit:git[1] suite
diff --git a/Documentation/git-merge-index.txt b/Documentation/git-merge-index.txt
index 4d266de..921b38f 100644
--- a/Documentation/git-merge-index.txt
+++ b/Documentation/git-merge-index.txt
@@ -8,7 +8,7 @@ git-merge-index - Run a merge for files needing merging
 
 SYNOPSIS
 --------
-'git merge-index' [-o] [-q] <merge-program> (-a | [--] <file>\*)
+'git merge-index' [-o] [-q] <merge-program> (-a | [--] <file>*)
 
 DESCRIPTION
 -----------
diff --git a/Documentation/git-merge.txt b/Documentation/git-merge.txt
index 84043cc..d43416d 100644
--- a/Documentation/git-merge.txt
+++ b/Documentation/git-merge.txt
@@ -59,13 +59,13 @@ include::merge-options.txt[]
 -m <msg>::
 	Set the commit message to be used for the merge commit (in
 	case one is created).
-
-	If `--log` is specified, a shortlog of the commits being merged
-	will be appended to the specified message.
-
-	The 'git fmt-merge-msg' command can be
-	used to give a good default for automated 'git merge'
-	invocations.
++
+If `--log` is specified, a shortlog of the commits being merged
+will be appended to the specified message.
++
+The 'git fmt-merge-msg' command can be
+used to give a good default for automated 'git merge'
+invocations.
 
 --rerere-autoupdate::
 --no-rerere-autoupdate::
diff --git a/Documentation/git-mergetool--lib.txt b/Documentation/git-mergetool--lib.txt
index 78eb03f..d8df553 100644
--- a/Documentation/git-mergetool--lib.txt
+++ b/Documentation/git-mergetool--lib.txt
@@ -1,5 +1,5 @@
-git-mergetool--lib(1)
-=====================
+git-mergetool{litdd}lib(1)
+==========================
 
 NAME
 ----
@@ -16,11 +16,11 @@ This is not a command the end user would want to run.  Ever.
 This documentation is meant for people who are studying the
 Porcelain-ish scripts and/or are writing new ones.
 
-The 'git-mergetool--lib' scriptlet is designed to be sourced (using
+The 'git-mergetool{litdd}lib' scriptlet is designed to be sourced (using
 `.`) by other shell scripts to set up functions for working
 with git merge tools.
 
-Before sourcing 'git-mergetool--lib', your script must set `TOOL_MODE`
+Before sourcing 'git-mergetool{litdd}lib', your script must set `TOOL_MODE`
 to define the operation mode for the functions listed below.
 'diff' and 'merge' are valid values.
 
diff --git a/Documentation/git-mergetool.txt b/Documentation/git-mergetool.txt
index e4ed016..1f75a84 100644
--- a/Documentation/git-mergetool.txt
+++ b/Documentation/git-mergetool.txt
@@ -7,7 +7,7 @@ git-mergetool - Run merge conflict resolution tools to resolve merge conflicts
 
 SYNOPSIS
 --------
-'git mergetool' [--tool=<tool>] [-y|--no-prompt|--prompt] [<file>]...
+'git mergetool' [--tool=<tool>] [-y|--no-prompt|--prompt] [<file>...]
 
 DESCRIPTION
 -----------
diff --git a/Documentation/git-pack-objects.txt b/Documentation/git-pack-objects.txt
index 8ed09c0..65eff66 100644
--- a/Documentation/git-pack-objects.txt
+++ b/Documentation/git-pack-objects.txt
@@ -11,8 +11,8 @@ SYNOPSIS
 [verse]
 'git pack-objects' [-q | --progress | --all-progress] [--all-progress-implied]
 	[--no-reuse-delta] [--delta-base-offset] [--non-empty]
-	[--local] [--incremental] [--window=N] [--depth=N]
-	[--revs [--unpacked | --all]*] [--stdout | base-name]
+	[--local] [--incremental] [--window=<n>] [--depth=<n>]
+	[--revs [--unpacked | --all]] [--stdout | base-name]
 	[--keep-true-parents] < object-list
 
 
@@ -82,8 +82,8 @@ base-name::
 	reference was included in the resulting packfile.  This
 	can be useful to send new tags to native git clients.
 
---window=[N]::
---depth=[N]::
+--window=<n>::
+--depth=<n>::
 	These two options affect how the objects contained in
 	the pack are stored using delta compression.  The
 	objects are first internally sorted by type, size and
@@ -95,10 +95,10 @@ base-name::
 	times to get to the necessary object.
 	The default value for --window is 10 and --depth is 50.
 
---window-memory=[N]::
+--window-memory=<n>::
 	This option provides an additional limit on top of `--window`;
 	the window size will dynamically scale down so as to not take
-	up more than N bytes in memory.  This is useful in
+	up more than '<n>' bytes in memory.  This is useful in
 	repositories with a mix of large and small objects to not run
 	out of memory with a large window, but still be able to take
 	advantage of the large window for the smaller objects.  The
@@ -106,7 +106,7 @@ base-name::
 	`--window-memory=0` makes memory usage unlimited, which is the
 	default.
 
---max-pack-size=[N]::
+--max-pack-size=<n>::
 	Maximum size of each output pack file. The size can be suffixed with
 	"k", "m", or "g". The minimum size allowed is limited to 1 MiB.
 	If specified,  multiple packfiles may be created.
@@ -171,7 +171,7 @@ base-name::
 	wholesale enforcement of a different compression level on the
 	packed data is desired.
 
---compression=[N]::
+--compression=<n>::
 	Specifies compression level for newly-compressed data in the
 	generated pack.  If not specified,  pack compression level is
 	determined first by pack.compression,  then by core.compression,
diff --git a/Documentation/git-pull.txt b/Documentation/git-pull.txt
index c50f7dc..4db7373 100644
--- a/Documentation/git-pull.txt
+++ b/Documentation/git-pull.txt
@@ -26,9 +26,9 @@ With `--rebase`, it runs 'git rebase' instead of 'git merge'.
 <repository> should be the name of a remote repository as
 passed to linkgit:git-fetch[1].  <refspec> can name an
 arbitrary remote ref (for example, the name of a tag) or even
-a collection of refs with corresponding remote tracking branches
-(e.g., refs/heads/*:refs/remotes/origin/*), but usually it is
-the name of a branch in the remote repository.
+a collection of refs with corresponding remote-tracking branches
+(e.g., refs/heads/{asterisk}:refs/remotes/origin/{asterisk}),
+but usually it is the name of a branch in the remote repository.
 
 Default values for <repository> and <branch> are read from the
 "remote" and "merge" configuration for the current branch
@@ -92,12 +92,14 @@ include::merge-options.txt[]
 :git-pull: 1
 
 --rebase::
-	Instead of a merge, perform a rebase after fetching.  If
-	there is a remote ref for the upstream branch, and this branch
-	was rebased since last fetched, the rebase uses that information
-	to avoid rebasing non-local changes. To make this the default
-	for branch `<name>`, set configuration `branch.<name>.rebase`
-	to `true`.
+	Rebase the current branch on top of the upstream branch after
+	fetching.  If there is a remote-tracking branch corresponding to
+	the upstream branch and the upstream branch was rebased since last
+	fetched, the rebase uses that information to avoid rebasing
+	non-local changes.
++
+See `branch.<name>.rebase` in linkgit:git-config[1] if you want to make
+`git pull` always use `{litdd}rebase` instead of merging.
 +
 [NOTE]
 This is a potentially _dangerous_ mode of operation.
@@ -134,7 +136,7 @@ and if there is not any such variable, the value on `URL: ` line
 in `$GIT_DIR/remotes/<origin>` file is used.
 
 In order to determine what remote branches to fetch (and
-optionally store in the tracking branches) when the command is
+optionally store in the remote-tracking branches) when the command is
 run without any refspec parameters on the command line, values
 of the configuration variable `remote.<origin>.fetch` are
 consulted, and if there aren't any, `$GIT_DIR/remotes/<origin>`
@@ -147,9 +149,9 @@ refs/heads/*:refs/remotes/origin/*
 ------------
 
 A globbing refspec must have a non-empty RHS (i.e. must store
-what were fetched in tracking branches), and its LHS and RHS
+what were fetched in remote-tracking branches), and its LHS and RHS
 must end with `/*`.  The above specifies that all remote
-branches are tracked using tracking branches in
+branches are tracked using remote-tracking branches in
 `refs/remotes/origin/` hierarchy under the same name.
 
 The rule to determine which remote branch to merge after
diff --git a/Documentation/git-push.txt b/Documentation/git-push.txt
index 658ff2f..e11660a 100644
--- a/Documentation/git-push.txt
+++ b/Documentation/git-push.txt
@@ -41,7 +41,7 @@ OPTIONS[[OPTIONS]]
 +
 The <src> is often the name of the branch you would want to push, but
 it can be any arbitrary "SHA-1 expression", such as `master~4` or
-`HEAD` (see linkgit:gitrevisions[1]).
+`HEAD` (see linkgit:gitrevisions[7]).
 +
 The <dst> tells which ref on the remote side is updated with this
 push. Arbitrary expressions cannot be used here, an actual ref must
@@ -200,7 +200,7 @@ summary::
 	For a successfully pushed ref, the summary shows the old and new
 	values of the ref in a form suitable for using as an argument to
 	`git log` (this is `<old>..<new>` in most cases, and
-	`<old>...<new>` for forced non-fast-forward updates).
+	`<old>\...<new>` for forced non-fast-forward updates).
 +
 For a failed update, more details are given:
 +
diff --git a/Documentation/git-read-tree.txt b/Documentation/git-read-tree.txt
index 2e78da4..e88e9c2 100644
--- a/Documentation/git-read-tree.txt
+++ b/Documentation/git-read-tree.txt
@@ -11,7 +11,7 @@ SYNOPSIS
 'git read-tree' [[-m [--trivial] [--aggressive] | --reset | --prefix=<prefix>]
 		[-u [--exclude-per-directory=<gitignore>] | -i]]
 		[--index-output=<file>] [--no-sparse-checkout]
-		<tree-ish1> [<tree-ish2> [<tree-ish3>]]
+		(--empty | <tree-ish1> [<tree-ish2> [<tree-ish3>]])
 
 
 DESCRIPTION
@@ -114,6 +114,10 @@ OPTIONS
 	Disable sparse checkout support even if `core.sparseCheckout`
 	is true.
 
+--empty::
+	Instead of reading tree object(s) into the index, just empty
+	it.
+
 <tree-ish#>::
 	The id of the tree object(s) to be read/merged.
 
diff --git a/Documentation/git-rebase.txt b/Documentation/git-rebase.txt
index be23ad2..30e5c0e 100644
--- a/Documentation/git-rebase.txt
+++ b/Documentation/git-rebase.txt
@@ -199,6 +199,9 @@ rebase.stat::
 	Whether to show a diffstat of what changed upstream since the last
 	rebase. False by default.
 
+rebase.autosquash::
+	If set to true enable '--autosquash' option by default.
+
 OPTIONS
 -------
 <newbase>::
@@ -207,7 +210,7 @@ OPTIONS
 	<upstream>.  May be any valid commit, and not just an
 	existing branch name.
 +
-As a special case, you may use "A...B" as a shortcut for the
+As a special case, you may use "A\...B" as a shortcut for the
 merge base of A and B if there is exactly one merge base. You can
 leave out at most one of A and B, in which case it defaults to HEAD.
 
@@ -250,6 +253,13 @@ on top of the <upstream> branch using the given strategy, using
 the 'ours' strategy simply discards all patches from the <branch>,
 which makes little sense.
 
+-X <strategy-option>::
+--strategy-option=<strategy-option>::
+	Pass the <strategy-option> through to the merge strategy.
+	This implies `\--merge` and, if no strategy has been
+	specified, `-s recursive`.  Note the reversal of 'ours' and
+	'theirs' as noted in above for the `-m` option.
+
 -q::
 --quiet::
 	Be quiet. Implies --no-stat.
@@ -326,6 +336,7 @@ idea unless you know what you are doing (see BUGS below).
 	instead.
 
 --autosquash::
+--no-autosquash::
 	When the commit log message begins with "squash! ..." (or
 	"fixup! ..."), and there is a commit whose title begins with
 	the same ..., automatically modify the todo list of rebase -i
@@ -334,6 +345,10 @@ idea unless you know what you are doing (see BUGS below).
 	commit from `pick` to `squash` (or `fixup`).
 +
 This option is only valid when the '--interactive' option is used.
++
+If the '--autosquash' option is enabled by default using the
+configuration variable `rebase.autosquash`, this option can be
+used to override and disable this setting.
 
 --no-ff::
 	With --interactive, cherry-pick all rebased commits instead of
@@ -459,6 +474,30 @@ sure that the current HEAD is "B", and call
 $ git rebase -i -p --onto Q O
 -----------------------------
 
+Reordering and editing commits usually creates untested intermediate
+steps.  You may want to check that your history editing did not break
+anything by running a test, or at least recompiling at intermediate
+points in history by using the "exec" command (shortcut "x").  You may
+do so by creating a todo list like this one:
+
+-------------------------------------------
+pick deadbee Implement feature XXX
+fixup f1a5c00 Fix to feature XXX
+exec make
+pick c0ffeee The oneline of the next commit
+edit deadbab The oneline of the commit after
+exec cd subdir; make test
+...
+-------------------------------------------
+
+The interactive rebase will stop when a command fails (i.e. exits with
+non-0 status) to give you an opportunity to fix the problem. You can
+continue with `git rebase --continue`.
+
+The "exec" command launches the command in a shell (the one specified
+in `$SHELL`, or the default shell if `$SHELL` is not set), so you can
+use shell features (like "cd", ">", ";" ...). The command is run from
+the root of the working tree.
 
 SPLITTING COMMITS
 -----------------
diff --git a/Documentation/git-reflog.txt b/Documentation/git-reflog.txt
index 5a0451a..e50bd9b 100644
--- a/Documentation/git-reflog.txt
+++ b/Documentation/git-reflog.txt
@@ -40,7 +40,7 @@ see linkgit:git-log[1].
 The reflog is useful in various git commands, to specify the old value
 of a reference. For example, `HEAD@\{2\}` means "where HEAD used to be
 two moves ago", `master@\{one.week.ago\}` means "where master used to
-point to one week ago", and so on. See linkgit:gitrevisions[1] for
+point to one week ago", and so on. See linkgit:gitrevisions[7] for
 more details.
 
 To delete single entries from the reflog, use the subcommand "delete"
diff --git a/Documentation/git-relink.txt b/Documentation/git-relink.txt
index 25ff8f9..8fc809f 100644
--- a/Documentation/git-relink.txt
+++ b/Documentation/git-relink.txt
@@ -7,7 +7,7 @@ git-relink - Hardlink common objects in local repositories
 
 SYNOPSIS
 --------
-'git relink' [--safe] <dir> [<dir>]\* <master_dir>
+'git relink' [--safe] <dir>... <master_dir>
 
 DESCRIPTION
 -----------
diff --git a/Documentation/git-remote.txt b/Documentation/git-remote.txt
index aa021b0..c258ea4 100644
--- a/Documentation/git-remote.txt
+++ b/Documentation/git-remote.txt
@@ -20,7 +20,7 @@ SYNOPSIS
 'git remote set-url --delete' [--push] <name> <url>
 'git remote' [-v | --verbose] 'show' [-n] <name>
 'git remote prune' [-n | --dry-run] <name>
-'git remote' [-v | --verbose] 'update' [-p | --prune] [group | remote]...
+'git remote' [-v | --verbose] 'update' [-p | --prune] [(<group> | <remote>)...]
 
 DESCRIPTION
 -----------
@@ -75,7 +75,7 @@ was passed.
 
 'rename'::
 
-Rename the remote named <old> to <new>. All remote tracking branches and
+Rename the remote named <old> to <new>. All remote-tracking branches and
 configuration settings for the remote are updated.
 +
 In case <old> and <new> are the same, and <old> is a file under
@@ -84,7 +84,7 @@ the configuration file format.
 
 'rm'::
 
-Remove the remote named <name>. All remote tracking branches and
+Remove the remote named <name>. All remote-tracking branches and
 configuration settings for the remote are removed.
 
 'set-head'::
@@ -146,7 +146,7 @@ With `-n` option, the remote heads are not queried first with
 
 'prune'::
 
-Deletes all stale tracking branches under <name>.
+Deletes all stale remote-tracking branches under <name>.
 These stale branches have already been removed from the remote repository
 referenced by <name>, but are still locally available in
 "remotes/<name>".
diff --git a/Documentation/git-repack.txt b/Documentation/git-repack.txt
index 8c67d17..27f7865 100644
--- a/Documentation/git-repack.txt
+++ b/Documentation/git-repack.txt
@@ -8,7 +8,7 @@ git-repack - Pack unpacked objects in a repository
 
 SYNOPSIS
 --------
-'git repack' [-a] [-A] [-d] [-f] [-l] [-n] [-q] [--window=N] [--depth=N]
+'git repack' [-a] [-A] [-d] [-f] [-F] [-l] [-n] [-q] [--window=<n>] [--depth=<n>]
 
 DESCRIPTION
 -----------
@@ -62,6 +62,10 @@ other objects in that pack they already have locally.
 	linkgit:git-pack-objects[1].
 
 -f::
+	Pass the `--no-reuse-delta` option to `git-pack-objects`, see
+	linkgit:git-pack-objects[1].
+
+-F::
 	Pass the `--no-reuse-object` option to `git-pack-objects`, see
 	linkgit:git-pack-objects[1].
 
@@ -76,8 +80,8 @@ other objects in that pack they already have locally.
 	this repository (or a direct copy of it)
 	over HTTP or FTP.  See linkgit:git-update-server-info[1].
 
---window=[N]::
---depth=[N]::
+--window=<n>::
+--depth=<n>::
 	These two options affect how the objects contained in the pack are
 	stored using delta compression. The objects are first internally
 	sorted by type, size and optionally names and compared against the
@@ -87,10 +91,10 @@ other objects in that pack they already have locally.
 	to be applied that many times to get to the necessary object.
 	The default value for --window is 10 and --depth is 50.
 
---window-memory=[N]::
+--window-memory=<n>::
 	This option provides an additional limit on top of `--window`;
 	the window size will dynamically scale down so as to not take
-	up more than N bytes in memory.  This is useful in
+	up more than '<n>' bytes in memory.  This is useful in
 	repositories with a mix of large and small objects to not run
 	out of memory with a large window, but still be able to take
 	advantage of the large window for the smaller objects.  The
@@ -98,7 +102,7 @@ other objects in that pack they already have locally.
 	`--window-memory=0` makes memory usage unlimited, which is the
 	default.
 
---max-pack-size=[N]::
+--max-pack-size=<n>::
 	Maximum size of each output pack file. The size can be suffixed with
 	"k", "m", or "g". The minimum size allowed is limited to 1 MiB.
 	If specified,  multiple packfiles may be created.
diff --git a/Documentation/git-reset.txt b/Documentation/git-reset.txt
index b04d129..fd72976 100644
--- a/Documentation/git-reset.txt
+++ b/Documentation/git-reset.txt
@@ -15,17 +15,24 @@ SYNOPSIS
 DESCRIPTION
 -----------
 In the first and second form, copy entries from <commit> to the index.
-In the third form, set the current branch to <commit>, optionally
-modifying index and worktree to match.  The <commit> defaults to HEAD
+In the third form, set the current branch head (HEAD) to <commit>, optionally
+modifying index and working tree to match.  The <commit> defaults to HEAD
 in all forms.
 
 'git reset' [-q] [<commit>] [--] <paths>...::
 	This form resets the index entries for all <paths> to their
-	state at the <commit>.  (It does not affect the worktree, nor
+	state at <commit>.  (It does not affect the working tree, nor
 	the current branch.)
 +
 This means that `git reset <paths>` is the opposite of `git add
 <paths>`.
++
+After running `git reset <paths>` to update the index entry, you can
+use linkgit:git-checkout[1] to check the contents out of the index to
+the working tree.
+Alternatively, using linkgit:git-checkout[1] and specifying a commit, you
+can copy the contents of a path out of a commit to the index and to the
+working tree in one go.
 
 'git reset' --patch|-p [<commit>] [--] [<paths>...]::
 	Interactively select hunks in the difference between the index
@@ -36,16 +43,17 @@ This means that `git reset -p` is the opposite of `git add -p` (see
 linkgit:git-add[1]).
 
 'git reset' [--<mode>] [<commit>]::
-	This form points the current branch to <commit> and then
-	updates index and working tree according to <mode>, which must
-	be one of the following:
+	This form resets the current branch head to <commit> and
+	possibly updates the index (resetting it to the tree of <commit>) and
+	the working tree depending on <mode>, which
+	must be one of the following:
 +
 --
 --soft::
-	Does not touch the index file nor the working tree at all, but
-	requires them to be in a good order. This leaves all your changed
-	files "Changes to be committed", as 'git status' would
-	put it.
+	Does not touch the index file nor the working tree at all (but
+	resets the head to <commit>, just like all modes do). This leaves
+	all your changed files "Changes to be committed", as 'git status'
+	would put it.
 
 --mixed::
 	Resets the index but not the working tree (i.e., the changed files
@@ -53,22 +61,30 @@ linkgit:git-add[1]).
 	been updated. This is the default action.
 
 --hard::
-	Matches the working tree and index to that of the tree being
-	switched to. Any changes to tracked files in the working tree
-	since <commit> are lost.
+	Resets the index and working tree. Any changes to tracked files in the
+	working tree since <commit> are discarded.
 
 --merge::
-	Resets the index to match the tree recorded by the named commit,
-	and updates the files that are different between the named commit
-	and the current commit in the working tree.
+	Resets the index and updates the files in the working tree that are
+	different between <commit> and HEAD, but keeps those which are
+	different between the index and working tree (i.e. which have changes
+	which have not been added).
+	If a file that is different between <commit> and the index has unstaged
+	changes, reset is aborted.
++
+In other words, --merge does something like a 'git read-tree -u -m <commit>',
+but carries forward unmerged index entries.
 
 --keep::
-	Reset the index to the given commit, keeping local changes in
-	the working tree since the current commit, while updating
-	working tree files without local changes to what appears in
-	the given commit.  If a file that is different between the
-	current commit and the given commit has local changes, reset
-	is aborted.
+	Resets the index, updates files in the working tree that are
+	different between <commit> and HEAD, but keeps those
+	which are different between HEAD and the working tree (i.e.
+	which have local changes).
+	If a file that is different between <commit> and HEAD has local changes,
+	reset is aborted.
++
+In other words, --keep does a 2-way merge between <commit> and HEAD followed by
+'git reset --mixed <commit>'.
 --
 
 If you want to undo a commit other than the latest on a branch,
@@ -184,7 +200,7 @@ tip of the current branch in ORIG_HEAD, so resetting hard to it
 brings your index file and the working tree back to that state,
 and resets the tip of the branch to that commit.
 
-Undo a merge or pull inside a dirty work tree::
+Undo a merge or pull inside a dirty working tree::
 +
 ------------
 $ git pull                         <1>
@@ -256,8 +272,8 @@ Keep changes in working tree while discarding some previous commits::
 Suppose you are working on something and you commit it, and then you
 continue working a bit more, but now you think that what you have in
 your working tree should be in another branch that has nothing to do
-with what you commited previously. You can start a new branch and
-reset it while keeping the changes in your work tree.
+with what you committed previously. You can start a new branch and
+reset it while keeping the changes in your working tree.
 +
 ------------
 $ git tag start
@@ -294,8 +310,10 @@ In these tables, A, B, C and D are some different states of a
 file. For example, the first line of the first table means that if a
 file is in state A in the working tree, in state B in the index, in
 state C in HEAD and in state D in the target, then "git reset --soft
-target" will put the file in state A in the working tree, in state B
-in the index and in state D in HEAD.
+target" will leave the file in the working tree in state A and in the
+index in state B.  It resets (i.e. moves) the HEAD (i.e. the tip of
+the current branch, if you are on one) to "target" (which has the file
+in state D).
 
       working index HEAD target         working index HEAD
       ----------------------------------------------------
@@ -346,11 +364,11 @@ in the index and in state D in HEAD.
 				--keep   B       C     C
 
 "reset --merge" is meant to be used when resetting out of a conflicted
-merge. Any mergy operation guarantees that the work tree file that is
+merge. Any mergy operation guarantees that the working tree file that is
 involved in the merge does not have local change wrt the index before
-it starts, and that it writes the result out to the work tree. So if
+it starts, and that it writes the result out to the working tree. So if
 we see some difference between the index and the target and also
-between the index and the work tree, then it means that we are not
+between the index and the working tree, then it means that we are not
 resetting out from a state that a mergy operation left after failing
 with a conflict. That is why we disallow --merge option in this case.
 
diff --git a/Documentation/git-rev-list.txt b/Documentation/git-rev-list.txt
index 173f3fc..8e1e329 100644
--- a/Documentation/git-rev-list.txt
+++ b/Documentation/git-rev-list.txt
@@ -9,10 +9,10 @@ git-rev-list - Lists commit objects in reverse chronological order
 SYNOPSIS
 --------
 [verse]
-'git rev-list' [ \--max-count=number ]
-	     [ \--skip=number ]
-	     [ \--max-age=timestamp ]
-	     [ \--min-age=timestamp ]
+'git rev-list' [ \--max-count=<number> ]
+	     [ \--skip=<number> ]
+	     [ \--max-age=<timestamp> ]
+	     [ \--min-age=<timestamp> ]
 	     [ \--sparse ]
 	     [ \--merges ]
 	     [ \--no-merges ]
@@ -21,10 +21,10 @@ SYNOPSIS
 	     [ \--full-history ]
 	     [ \--not ]
 	     [ \--all ]
-	     [ \--branches[=pattern] ]
-	     [ \--tags[=pattern] ]
-	     [ \--remotes[=pattern] ]
-	     [ \--glob=glob-pattern ]
+	     [ \--branches[=<pattern>] ]
+	     [ \--tags[=<pattern>] ]
+	     [ \--remotes[=<pattern>] ]
+	     [ \--glob=<glob-pattern> ]
 	     [ \--stdin ]
 	     [ \--quiet ]
 	     [ \--topo-order ]
@@ -37,7 +37,7 @@ SYNOPSIS
 	     [ \--regexp-ignore-case | -i ]
 	     [ \--extended-regexp | -E ]
 	     [ \--fixed-strings | -F ]
-	     [ \--date={local|relative|default|iso|rfc|short} ]
+	     [ \--date=(local|relative|default|iso|rfc|short) ]
 	     [ [\--objects | \--objects-edge] [ \--unpacked ] ]
 	     [ \--pretty | \--header ]
 	     [ \--bisect ]
diff --git a/Documentation/git-rev-parse.txt b/Documentation/git-rev-parse.txt
index be4c053..4a27643 100644
--- a/Documentation/git-rev-parse.txt
+++ b/Documentation/git-rev-parse.txt
@@ -74,7 +74,7 @@ OPTIONS
 	properly quoted for consumption by shell.  Useful when
 	you expect your parameter to contain whitespaces and
 	newlines (e.g. when using pickaxe `-S` with
-	'git diff-\*'). In contrast to the `--sq-quote` option,
+	'git diff-{asterisk}'). In contrast to the `--sq-quote` option,
 	the command input is still interpreted as usual.
 
 --not::
@@ -95,7 +95,7 @@ OPTIONS
 	unfortunately named tag "master"), and show them as full
 	refnames (e.g. "refs/heads/master").
 
---abbrev-ref[={strict|loose}]::
+--abbrev-ref[=(strict|loose)]::
 	A non-ambiguous short name of the objects name.
 	The option core.warnAmbiguousRefs is used to select the strict
 	abbreviation mode.
@@ -112,14 +112,15 @@ OPTIONS
 +
 If a `pattern` is given, only refs matching the given shell glob are
 shown.  If the pattern does not contain a globbing character (`?`,
-`\*`, or `[`), it is turned into a prefix match by appending `/\*`.
+`{asterisk}`, or `[`), it is turned into a prefix match by
+appending `/{asterisk}`.
 
 --glob=pattern::
 	Show all refs matching the shell glob pattern `pattern`. If
 	the pattern does not start with `refs/`, this is automatically
 	prepended.  If the pattern does not contain a globbing
-	character (`?`, `\*`, or `[`), it is turned into a prefix
-	match by appending `/\*`.
+	character (`?`, `{asterisk}`, or `[`), it is turned into a prefix
+	match by appending `/{asterisk}`.
 
 --show-toplevel::
 	Show the absolute path of the top-level directory.
diff --git a/Documentation/git-revert.txt b/Documentation/git-revert.txt
index b7d9ef7..752fc88 100644
--- a/Documentation/git-revert.txt
+++ b/Documentation/git-revert.txt
@@ -31,7 +31,7 @@ OPTIONS
 <commit>...::
 	Commits to revert.
 	For a more complete list of ways to spell commit names, see
-	linkgit:gitrevisions[1].
+	linkgit:gitrevisions[7].
 	Sets of commits can also be given but no traversal is done by
 	default, see linkgit:git-rev-list[1] and its '--no-walk'
 	option.
@@ -87,7 +87,7 @@ git revert HEAD~3::
 	Revert the changes specified by the fourth last commit in HEAD
 	and create a new commit with the reverted changes.
 
-git revert -n master\~5..master~2::
+git revert -n master{tilde}5..master{tilde}2::
 
 	Revert the changes done by commits from the fifth last commit
 	in master (included) to the third last commit in master
diff --git a/Documentation/git-rm.txt b/Documentation/git-rm.txt
index c21d19e..71e3d9f 100644
--- a/Documentation/git-rm.txt
+++ b/Documentation/git-rm.txt
@@ -78,7 +78,8 @@ a file that you have not told git about does not remove that file.
 
 File globbing matches across directory boundaries.  Thus, given
 two directories `d` and `d2`, there is a difference between
-using `git rm \'d\*\'` and `git rm \'d/\*\'`, as the former will
+using `git rm {apostrophe}d{asterisk}{apostrophe}` and
+`git rm {apostrophe}d/{asterisk}{apostrophe}`, as the former will
 also remove all of directory `d2`.
 
 REMOVING FILES THAT HAVE DISAPPEARED FROM THE FILESYSTEM
@@ -135,11 +136,11 @@ git diff --name-only --diff-filter=D -z | xargs -0 git rm --cached
 
 EXAMPLES
 --------
-git rm Documentation/\\*.txt::
-	Removes all `\*.txt` files from the index that are under the
+git rm Documentation/\*.txt::
+	Removes all `*.txt` files from the index that are under the
 	`Documentation` directory and any of its subdirectories.
 +
-Note that the asterisk `\*` is quoted from the shell in this
+Note that the asterisk `*` is quoted from the shell in this
 example; this lets git, and not the shell, expand the pathnames
 of files and subdirectories under the `Documentation/` directory.
 
diff --git a/Documentation/git-send-email.txt b/Documentation/git-send-email.txt
index c283084..ebc024a 100644
--- a/Documentation/git-send-email.txt
+++ b/Documentation/git-send-email.txt
@@ -82,11 +82,26 @@ See the CONFIGURATION section for 'sendemail.multiedit'.
 	set, as returned by "git var -l".
 
 --in-reply-to=<identifier>::
-	Specify the contents of the first In-Reply-To header.
-	Subsequent emails will refer to the previous email
-	instead of this if --chain-reply-to is set.
-	Only necessary if --compose is also set.  If --compose
-	is not set, this will be prompted for.
+	Make the first mail (or all the mails with `--no-thread`) appear as a
+	reply to the given Message-Id, which avoids breaking threads to
+	provide a new patch series.
+	The second and subsequent emails will be sent as replies according to
+	the `--[no]-chain-reply-to` setting.
++
+So for example when `--thread` and `--no-chain-reply-to` are specified, the
+second and subsequent patches will be replies to the first one like in the
+illustration below where `[PATCH v2 0/3]` is in reply to `[PATCH 0/2]`:
++
+  [PATCH 0/2] Here is what I did...
+    [PATCH 1/2] Clean up and tests
+    [PATCH 2/2] Implementation
+    [PATCH v2 0/3] Here is a reroll
+      [PATCH v2 1/3] Clean up
+      [PATCH v2 2/3] New tests
+      [PATCH v2 3/3] Implementation
++
+Only necessary if --compose is also set.  If --compose
+is not set, this will be prompted for.
 
 --subject=<string>::
 	Specify the initial subject of the email thread.
@@ -97,7 +112,7 @@ See the CONFIGURATION section for 'sendemail.multiedit'.
 	Specify the primary recipient of the emails generated. Generally, this
 	will be the upstream maintainer of the project involved. Default is the
 	value of the 'sendemail.to' configuration value; if that is unspecified,
-	this will be prompted for.
+	and --to-cmd is not specified, this will be prompted for.
 +
 The --to option must be repeated for each user you want on the to list.
 
@@ -165,6 +180,15 @@ user is prompted for a password while the input is masked for privacy.
 	are also accepted. The port can also be set with the
 	'sendemail.smtpserverport' configuration variable.
 
+--smtp-server-option=<option>::
+	If set, specifies the outgoing SMTP server option to use.
+	Default value can be specified by the 'sendemail.smtpserveroption'
+	configuration option.
++
+The --smtp-server-option option must be repeated for each option you want
+to pass to the server. Likewise, different lines in the configuration files
+must be used for each option.
+
 --smtp-ssl::
 	Legacy alias for '--smtp-encryption ssl'.
 
@@ -177,6 +201,12 @@ user is prompted for a password while the input is masked for privacy.
 Automating
 ~~~~~~~~~~
 
+--to-cmd=<command>::
+	Specify a command to execute once per patch file which
+	should generate patch file specific "To:" entries.
+	Output of this command must be single email address per line.
+	Default is the value of 'sendemail.tocmd' configuration value.
+
 --cc-cmd=<command>::
 	Specify a command to execute once per patch file which
 	should generate patch file specific "Cc:" entries.
diff --git a/Documentation/git-shell.txt b/Documentation/git-shell.txt
index 0f3ad81..6403126 100644
--- a/Documentation/git-shell.txt
+++ b/Documentation/git-shell.txt
@@ -3,24 +3,30 @@ git-shell(1)
 
 NAME
 ----
-git-shell - Restricted login shell for GIT-only SSH access
+git-shell - Restricted login shell for Git-only SSH access
 
 
 SYNOPSIS
 --------
-'$(git --exec-path)/git-shell' -c <command> <argument>
+'git shell' [-c <command> <argument>]
 
 DESCRIPTION
 -----------
-This is meant to be used as a login shell for SSH accounts you want
-to restrict to GIT pull/push access only. It permits execution only
-of server-side GIT commands implementing the pull/push functionality.
-The commands can be executed only by the '-c' option; the shell is not
-interactive.
-
-Currently, only four commands are permitted to be called, 'git-receive-pack'
-'git-upload-pack' and 'git-upload-archive' with a single required argument, or
-'cvs server' (to invoke 'git-cvsserver').
+
+A login shell for SSH accounts to provide restricted Git access. When
+'-c' is given, the program executes <command> non-interactively;
+<command> can be one of 'git receive-pack', 'git upload-pack', 'git
+upload-archive', 'cvs server', or a command in COMMAND_DIR. The shell
+is started in interactive mode when no arguments are given; in this
+case, COMMAND_DIR must exist, and any of the executables in it can be
+invoked.
+
+'cvs server' is a special command which executes git-cvsserver.
+
+COMMAND_DIR is the path "$HOME/git-shell-commands". The user must have
+read and execute permissions to the directory in order to execute the
+programs in it. The programs are executed with a cwd of $HOME, and
+<argument> is parsed as a command-line string.
 
 Author
 ------
diff --git a/Documentation/git-shortlog.txt b/Documentation/git-shortlog.txt
index bc1ac77..5cc3baf 100644
--- a/Documentation/git-shortlog.txt
+++ b/Documentation/git-shortlog.txt
@@ -44,7 +44,7 @@ OPTIONS
 --email::
 	Show the email address of each author.
 
---format[='<format>']::
+--format[=<format>]::
 	Instead of the commit subject, use some other information to
 	describe each commit.  '<format>' can be any string accepted
 	by the `--format` option of 'git log', such as '{asterisk} [%h] %s'.
diff --git a/Documentation/git-show-branch.txt b/Documentation/git-show-branch.txt
index 81ba296..3b0c882 100644
--- a/Documentation/git-show-branch.txt
+++ b/Documentation/git-show-branch.txt
@@ -12,7 +12,7 @@ SYNOPSIS
 		[--current] [--color[=<when>] | --no-color] [--sparse]
 		[--more=<n> | --list | --independent | --merge-base]
 		[--no-name | --sha1-name] [--topics]
-		[<rev> | <glob>]...
+		[(<rev> | <glob>)...]
 
 'git show-branch' (-g|--reflog)[=<n>[,<base>]] [--list] [<ref>]
 
@@ -32,7 +32,7 @@ no <rev> nor <glob> is given on the command line.
 OPTIONS
 -------
 <rev>::
-	Arbitrary extended SHA1 expression (see linkgit:gitrevisions[1])
+	Arbitrary extended SHA1 expression (see linkgit:gitrevisions[7])
 	that typically names a branch head or a tag.
 
 <glob>::
@@ -168,10 +168,10 @@ $ git show-branch master fixes mhf
 ------------------------------------------------
 
 These three branches all forked from a common commit, [master],
-whose commit message is "Add \'git show-branch\'". The "fixes"
-branch adds one commit "Introduce "reset type" flag to "git reset"".
-The "mhf" branch adds many other commits. The current branch
-is "master".
+whose commit message is "Add {apostrophe}git show-branch{apostrophe}".
+The "fixes" branch adds one commit "Introduce "reset type" flag to
+"git reset"". The "mhf" branch adds many other commits.
+The current branch is "master".
 
 
 EXAMPLE
diff --git a/Documentation/git-show-ref.txt b/Documentation/git-show-ref.txt
index 75780d7..be0ec18 100644
--- a/Documentation/git-show-ref.txt
+++ b/Documentation/git-show-ref.txt
@@ -73,8 +73,8 @@ OPTIONS
 --exclude-existing[=<pattern>]::
 
 	Make 'git show-ref' act as a filter that reads refs from stdin of the
-	form "^(?:<anything>\s)?<refname>(?:\^\{\})?$" and performs the
-	following actions on each:
+	form "^(?:<anything>\s)?<refname>(?:{backslash}{caret}\{\})?$"
+	and performs the following actions on each:
 	(1) strip "^{}" at the end of line if any;
 	(2) ignore if pattern is provided and does not head-match refname;
 	(3) warn if refname is not a well-formed refname and skip;
@@ -84,7 +84,11 @@ OPTIONS
 
 <pattern>...::
 
-	Show references matching one or more patterns.
+	Show references matching one or more patterns. Patterns are matched from
+	the end of the full name, and only complete parts are matched, e.g.
+	'master' matches 'refs/heads/master', 'refs/remotes/origin/master',
+	'refs/tags/jedi/master' but not 'refs/heads/mymaster' nor
+	'refs/remotes/master/jedi'.
 
 OUTPUT
 ------
diff --git a/Documentation/git-show.txt b/Documentation/git-show.txt
index 0002bfb..f0a8a1a 100644
--- a/Documentation/git-show.txt
+++ b/Documentation/git-show.txt
@@ -36,7 +36,7 @@ OPTIONS
 <object>...::
 	The names of objects to show.
 	For a more complete list of ways to spell object names, see
-	"SPECIFYING REVISIONS" section in linkgit:gitrevisions[1].
+	"SPECIFYING REVISIONS" section in linkgit:gitrevisions[7].
 
 include::pretty-options.txt[]
 
@@ -54,6 +54,10 @@ git show v1.0.0::
 git show v1.0.0^\{tree\}::
 	Shows the tree pointed to by the tag `v1.0.0`.
 
+git show -s --format=%s v1.0.0^\{commit\}::
+	Shows the subject of the commit pointed to by the
+	tag `v1.0.0`.
+
 git show next~10:Documentation/README::
 	Shows the contents of the file `Documentation/README` as
 	they were current in the 10th last commit of the branch
diff --git a/Documentation/git-stash.txt b/Documentation/git-stash.txt
index 473889a..8728f7a 100644
--- a/Documentation/git-stash.txt
+++ b/Documentation/git-stash.txt
@@ -104,18 +104,22 @@ tree's changes, but also the index's ones. However, this can fail, when you
 have conflicts (which are stored in the index, where you therefore can no
 longer apply the changes as they were originally).
 +
-When no `<stash>` is given, `stash@\{0}` is assumed.
+When no `<stash>` is given, `stash@\{0}` is assumed, otherwise `<stash>` must
+be a reference of the form `stash@\{<revision>}`.
 
 apply [--index] [-q|--quiet] [<stash>]::
 
-	Like `pop`, but do not remove the state from the stash list.
+	Like `pop`, but do not remove the state from the stash list. Unlike `pop`,
+	`<stash>` may be any commit that looks like a commit created by
+	`stash save` or `stash create`.
 
 branch <branchname> [<stash>]::
 
 	Creates and checks out a new branch named `<branchname>` starting from
 	the commit at which the `<stash>` was originally created, applies the
-	changes recorded in `<stash>` to the new working tree and index, then
-	drops the `<stash>` if that completes successfully. When no `<stash>`
+	changes recorded in `<stash>` to the new working tree and index.
+	If that succeeds, and `<stash>` is a reference of the form
+	`stash@{<revision>}`, it then drops the `<stash>`. When no `<stash>`
 	is given, applies the latest one.
 +
 This is useful if the branch on which you ran `git stash save` has
@@ -132,7 +136,9 @@ clear::
 drop [-q|--quiet] [<stash>]::
 
 	Remove a single stashed state from the stash list. When no `<stash>`
-	is given, it removes the latest one. i.e. `stash@\{0}`
+	is given, it removes the latest one. i.e. `stash@\{0}`, otherwise
+	`<stash>` must a valid stash log reference of the form
+	`stash@\{<revision>}`.
 
 create::
 
diff --git a/Documentation/git-status.txt b/Documentation/git-status.txt
index 2fd054c..dae190a 100644
--- a/Documentation/git-status.txt
+++ b/Documentation/git-status.txt
@@ -55,7 +55,11 @@ specified.
 
 --ignore-submodules[=<when>]::
 	Ignore changes to submodules when looking for changes. <when> can be
-	either "untracked", "dirty" or "all", which is the default. When
+	either "none", "untracked", "dirty" or "all", which is the default.
+	Using "none" will consider the submodule modified when it either contains
+	untracked or modified files or its HEAD differs from the commit recorded
+	in the superproject and can be used to override any settings of the
+	'ignore' option in linkgit:git-config[1] or linkgit:gitmodules[5]. When
 	"untracked" is used submodules are not considered dirty when they only
 	contain untracked content (but they are still scanned for modified
 	content). Using "dirty" ignores all changes to the work tree of submodules,
diff --git a/Documentation/git-svn.txt b/Documentation/git-svn.txt
index 4b84d08..139d314 100644
--- a/Documentation/git-svn.txt
+++ b/Documentation/git-svn.txt
@@ -56,6 +56,8 @@ COMMANDS
 	as well, they take precedence.
 --no-metadata;;
 	Set the 'noMetadata' option in the [svn-remote] config.
+	This option is not recommended, please read the 'svn.noMetadata'
+	section of this manpage before using this option.
 --use-svm-props;;
 	Set the 'useSvmProps' option in the [svn-remote] config.
 --use-svnsync-props;;
@@ -436,7 +438,7 @@ git rebase --onto remotes/git-svn A^ master
 OPTIONS
 -------
 
---shared[={false|true|umask|group|all|world|everybody}]::
+--shared[=(false|true|umask|group|all|world|everybody)]::
 --template=<template_directory>::
 	Only used with the 'init' command.
 	These are passed directly to 'git init'.
@@ -597,13 +599,22 @@ svn.noMetadata::
 svn-remote.<name>.noMetadata::
 	This gets rid of the 'git-svn-id:' lines at the end of every commit.
 +
-If you lose your .git/svn/git-svn/.rev_db file, 'git svn' will not
-be able to rebuild it and you won't be able to fetch again,
-either.  This is fine for one-shot imports.
+This option can only be used for one-shot imports as 'git svn'
+will not be able to fetch again without metadata. Additionally,
+if you lose your .git/svn/**/.rev_map.* files, 'git svn' will not
+be able to rebuild them.
 +
 The 'git svn log' command will not work on repositories using
 this, either.  Using this conflicts with the 'useSvmProps'
 option for (hopefully) obvious reasons.
++
+This option is NOT recommended as it makes it difficult to track down
+old references to SVN revision numbers in existing documentation, bug
+reports and archives.  If you plan to eventually migrate from SVN to git
+and are certain about dropping SVN history, consider
+linkgit:git-filter-branch[1] instead.  filter-branch also allows
+reformating of metadata for ease-of-reading and rewriting authorship
+info for non-"svn.authorsFile" users.
 
 svn.useSvmProps::
 svn-remote.<name>.useSvmProps::
diff --git a/Documentation/git-tag.txt b/Documentation/git-tag.txt
index 31c78a8..8b169e3 100644
--- a/Documentation/git-tag.txt
+++ b/Documentation/git-tag.txt
@@ -177,7 +177,7 @@ On Automatic following
 ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
 
 If you are following somebody else's tree, you are most likely
-using tracking branches (`refs/heads/origin` in traditional
+using remote-tracking branches (`refs/heads/origin` in traditional
 layout, or `refs/remotes/origin/master` in the separate-remote
 layout).  You usually want the tags from the other end.
 
@@ -232,7 +232,7 @@ this case.
 It may well be that among networking people, they may want to
 exchange the tags internal to their group, but in that workflow
 they are most likely tracking with each other's progress by
-having tracking branches.  Again, the heuristic to automatically
+having remote-tracking branches.  Again, the heuristic to automatically
 follow such tags is a good thing.
 
 
diff --git a/Documentation/git-update-index.txt b/Documentation/git-update-index.txt
index 765d4b3..1ca56c8 100644
--- a/Documentation/git-update-index.txt
+++ b/Documentation/git-update-index.txt
@@ -12,7 +12,7 @@ SYNOPSIS
 'git update-index'
 	     [--add] [--remove | --force-remove] [--replace]
 	     [--refresh] [-q] [--unmerged] [--ignore-missing]
-	     [--cacheinfo <mode> <object> <file>]\*
+	     [(--cacheinfo <mode> <object> <file>)...]
 	     [--chmod=(+|-)x]
 	     [--assume-unchanged | --no-assume-unchanged]
 	     [--skip-worktree | --no-skip-worktree]
@@ -21,7 +21,7 @@ SYNOPSIS
 	     [--info-only] [--index-info]
 	     [-z] [--stdin]
 	     [--verbose]
-	     [--] [<file>]\*
+	     [--] [<file>...]
 
 DESCRIPTION
 -----------
@@ -144,8 +144,8 @@ you will need to handle the situation manually.
         Report what is being added and removed from index.
 
 -z::
-	Only meaningful with `--stdin`; paths are separated with
-	NUL character instead of LF.
+	Only meaningful with `--stdin` or `--index-info`; paths are
+	separated with NUL character instead of LF.
 
 \--::
 	Do not interpret any more arguments as options.
diff --git a/Documentation/git-verify-tag.txt b/Documentation/git-verify-tag.txt
index dada212..7112197 100644
--- a/Documentation/git-verify-tag.txt
+++ b/Documentation/git-verify-tag.txt
@@ -15,6 +15,10 @@ Validates the gpg signature created by 'git tag'.
 
 OPTIONS
 -------
+-v::
+--verbose::
+	Print the contents of the tag object before validating it.
+
 <tag>...::
 	SHA1 identifiers of git tag objects.
 
diff --git a/Documentation/git-web--browse.txt b/Documentation/git-web--browse.txt
index 7572049..51e8e0a 100644
--- a/Documentation/git-web--browse.txt
+++ b/Documentation/git-web--browse.txt
@@ -1,5 +1,5 @@
-git-web--browse(1)
-==================
+git-web{litdd}browse(1)
+=======================
 
 NAME
 ----
@@ -7,7 +7,7 @@ git-web--browse - git helper script to launch a web browser
 
 SYNOPSIS
 --------
-'git web--browse' [OPTIONS] URL/FILE ...
+'git web{litdd}browse' [OPTIONS] URL/FILE ...
 
 DESCRIPTION
 -----------
@@ -32,19 +32,19 @@ Custom commands may also be specified.
 
 OPTIONS
 -------
--b BROWSER::
---browser=BROWSER::
-	Use the specified BROWSER. It must be in the list of supported
+-b <browser>::
+--browser=<browser>::
+	Use the specified browser. It must be in the list of supported
 	browsers.
 
--t BROWSER::
---tool=BROWSER::
+-t <browser>::
+--tool=<browser>::
 	Same as above.
 
--c CONF.VAR::
---config=CONF.VAR::
+-c <conf.var>::
+--config=<conf.var>::
 	CONF.VAR is looked up in the git config files. If it's set,
-	then its value specify the browser that should be used.
+	then its value specifies the browser that should be used.
 
 CONFIGURATION VARIABLES
 -----------------------
@@ -71,7 +71,7 @@ browser.<tool>.cmd
 When the browser, specified by options or configuration variables, is
 not among the supported ones, then the corresponding
 'browser.<tool>.cmd' configuration variable will be looked up. If this
-variable exists then 'git web--browse' will treat the specified tool
+variable exists then 'git web{litdd}browse' will treat the specified tool
 as a custom command and will use a shell eval to run the command with
 the URLs passed as arguments.
 
diff --git a/Documentation/git.txt b/Documentation/git.txt
index c28a7ec..0c897df 100644
--- a/Documentation/git.txt
+++ b/Documentation/git.txt
@@ -9,11 +9,11 @@ git - the stupid content tracker
 SYNOPSIS
 --------
 [verse]
-'git' [--version] [--exec-path[=GIT_EXEC_PATH]] [--html-path]
+'git' [--version] [--exec-path[=<path>]] [--html-path]
     [-p|--paginate|--no-pager] [--no-replace-objects]
-    [--bare] [--git-dir=GIT_DIR] [--work-tree=GIT_WORK_TREE]
-    [-c name=value]
-    [--help] COMMAND [ARGS]
+    [--bare] [--git-dir=<path>] [--work-tree=<path>]
+    [-c <name>=<value>]
+    [--help] <command> [<args>]
 
 DESCRIPTION
 -----------
@@ -28,7 +28,7 @@ also want to read linkgit:gitcvs-migration[7].  See
 the link:user-manual.html[Git User's Manual] for a more in-depth
 introduction.
 
-The COMMAND is either a name of a Git command (see below) or an alias
+The '<command>' is either a name of a Git command (see below) or an alias
 as defined in the configuration file (see linkgit:git-config[1]).
 
 Formatted and hyperlinked version of the latest git
@@ -44,174 +44,183 @@ unreleased) version of git, that is available from 'master'
 branch of the `git.git` repository.
 Documentation for older releases are available here:
 
-* link:v1.7.2.1/git.html[documentation for release 1.7.2.1]
+* link:v1.7.3.2/git.html[documentation for release 1.7.3.2]
 
 * release notes for
-  link:RelNotes-1.7.2.1.txt[1.7.2.1],
-  link:RelNotes-1.7.2.txt[1.7.2].
+  link:RelNotes/1.7.3.2.txt[1.7.3.2],
+  link:RelNotes/1.7.3.1.txt[1.7.3.1],
+  link:RelNotes/1.7.3.txt[1.7.3].
+
+* link:v1.7.2.3/git.html[documentation for release 1.7.2.3]
+
+* release notes for
+  link:RelNotes/1.7.2.3.txt[1.7.2.3],
+  link:RelNotes/1.7.2.2.txt[1.7.2.2],
+  link:RelNotes/1.7.2.1.txt[1.7.2.1],
+  link:RelNotes/1.7.2.txt[1.7.2].
 
 * link:v1.7.1.2/git.html[documentation for release 1.7.1.2]
 
 * release notes for
-  link:RelNotes-1.7.1.2.txt[1.7.1.2],
-  link:RelNotes-1.7.1.1.txt[1.7.1.1],
-  link:RelNotes-1.7.1.txt[1.7.1].
+  link:RelNotes/1.7.1.2.txt[1.7.1.2],
+  link:RelNotes/1.7.1.1.txt[1.7.1.1],
+  link:RelNotes/1.7.1.txt[1.7.1].
 
 * link:v1.7.0.7/git.html[documentation for release 1.7.0.7]
 
 * release notes for
-  link:RelNotes-1.7.0.7.txt[1.7.0.7],
-  link:RelNotes-1.7.0.6.txt[1.7.0.6],
-  link:RelNotes-1.7.0.5.txt[1.7.0.5],
-  link:RelNotes-1.7.0.4.txt[1.7.0.4],
-  link:RelNotes-1.7.0.3.txt[1.7.0.3],
-  link:RelNotes-1.7.0.2.txt[1.7.0.2],
-  link:RelNotes-1.7.0.1.txt[1.7.0.1],
-  link:RelNotes-1.7.0.txt[1.7.0].
+  link:RelNotes/1.7.0.7.txt[1.7.0.7],
+  link:RelNotes/1.7.0.6.txt[1.7.0.6],
+  link:RelNotes/1.7.0.5.txt[1.7.0.5],
+  link:RelNotes/1.7.0.4.txt[1.7.0.4],
+  link:RelNotes/1.7.0.3.txt[1.7.0.3],
+  link:RelNotes/1.7.0.2.txt[1.7.0.2],
+  link:RelNotes/1.7.0.1.txt[1.7.0.1],
+  link:RelNotes/1.7.0.txt[1.7.0].
 
 * link:v1.6.6.2/git.html[documentation for release 1.6.6.2]
 
 * release notes for
-  link:RelNotes-1.6.6.2.txt[1.6.6.2],
-  link:RelNotes-1.6.6.1.txt[1.6.6.1],
-  link:RelNotes-1.6.6.txt[1.6.6].
+  link:RelNotes/1.6.6.2.txt[1.6.6.2],
+  link:RelNotes/1.6.6.1.txt[1.6.6.1],
+  link:RelNotes/1.6.6.txt[1.6.6].
 
 * link:v1.6.5.8/git.html[documentation for release 1.6.5.8]
 
 * release notes for
-  link:RelNotes-1.6.5.8.txt[1.6.5.8],
-  link:RelNotes-1.6.5.7.txt[1.6.5.7],
-  link:RelNotes-1.6.5.6.txt[1.6.5.6],
-  link:RelNotes-1.6.5.5.txt[1.6.5.5],
-  link:RelNotes-1.6.5.4.txt[1.6.5.4],
-  link:RelNotes-1.6.5.3.txt[1.6.5.3],
-  link:RelNotes-1.6.5.2.txt[1.6.5.2],
-  link:RelNotes-1.6.5.1.txt[1.6.5.1],
-  link:RelNotes-1.6.5.txt[1.6.5].
+  link:RelNotes/1.6.5.8.txt[1.6.5.8],
+  link:RelNotes/1.6.5.7.txt[1.6.5.7],
+  link:RelNotes/1.6.5.6.txt[1.6.5.6],
+  link:RelNotes/1.6.5.5.txt[1.6.5.5],
+  link:RelNotes/1.6.5.4.txt[1.6.5.4],
+  link:RelNotes/1.6.5.3.txt[1.6.5.3],
+  link:RelNotes/1.6.5.2.txt[1.6.5.2],
+  link:RelNotes/1.6.5.1.txt[1.6.5.1],
+  link:RelNotes/1.6.5.txt[1.6.5].
 
 * link:v1.6.4.4/git.html[documentation for release 1.6.4.4]
 
 * release notes for
-  link:RelNotes-1.6.4.4.txt[1.6.4.4],
-  link:RelNotes-1.6.4.3.txt[1.6.4.3],
-  link:RelNotes-1.6.4.2.txt[1.6.4.2],
-  link:RelNotes-1.6.4.1.txt[1.6.4.1],
-  link:RelNotes-1.6.4.txt[1.6.4].
+  link:RelNotes/1.6.4.4.txt[1.6.4.4],
+  link:RelNotes/1.6.4.3.txt[1.6.4.3],
+  link:RelNotes/1.6.4.2.txt[1.6.4.2],
+  link:RelNotes/1.6.4.1.txt[1.6.4.1],
+  link:RelNotes/1.6.4.txt[1.6.4].
 
 * link:v1.6.3.4/git.html[documentation for release 1.6.3.4]
 
 * release notes for
-  link:RelNotes-1.6.3.4.txt[1.6.3.4],
-  link:RelNotes-1.6.3.3.txt[1.6.3.3],
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+  link:RelNotes/1.5.2.1.txt[1.5.2.1],
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+  link:RelNotes/1.5.1.3.txt[1.5.1.3],
+  link:RelNotes/1.5.1.2.txt[1.5.1.2],
+  link:RelNotes/1.5.1.1.txt[1.5.1.1],
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+  link:RelNotes/1.5.0.3.txt[1.5.0.3],
+  link:RelNotes/1.5.0.2.txt[1.5.0.2],
+  link:RelNotes/1.5.0.1.txt[1.5.0.1],
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 * documentation for release link:v1.4.4.4/git.html[1.4.4.4],
   link:v1.3.3/git.html[1.3.3],
@@ -244,7 +253,7 @@ help ...`.
 	The <name> is expected in the same format as listed by
 	'git config' (subkeys separated by dots).
 
---exec-path::
+--exec-path[=<path>]::
 	Path to wherever your core git programs are installed.
 	This can also be controlled by setting the GIT_EXEC_PATH
 	environment variable. If no path is given, 'git' will print
@@ -487,7 +496,7 @@ HEAD::
 	(i.e. the contents of `$GIT_DIR/refs/heads/<head>`).
 
 For a more complete list of ways to spell object names, see
-"SPECIFYING REVISIONS" section in linkgit:gitrevisions[1].
+"SPECIFYING REVISIONS" section in linkgit:gitrevisions[7].
 
 
 File/Directory Structure
@@ -637,6 +646,13 @@ Usually it is easier to configure any desired options through your
 personal `.ssh/config` file.  Please consult your ssh documentation
 for further details.
 
+'GIT_ASKPASS'::
+	If this environment variable is set, then git commands which need to
+	acquire passwords or passphrases (e.g. for HTTP or IMAP authentication)
+	will call this program with a suitable prompt as command line argument
+	and read the password from its STDOUT. See also the 'core.askpass'
+	option in linkgit:git-config[1].
+
 'GIT_FLUSH'::
 	If this environment variable is set to "1", then commands such
 	as 'git blame' (in incremental mode), 'git rev-list', 'git log',
diff --git a/Documentation/gitattributes.txt b/Documentation/gitattributes.txt
index 564586b..c80ca5d 100644
--- a/Documentation/gitattributes.txt
+++ b/Documentation/gitattributes.txt
@@ -62,14 +62,21 @@ consults `$GIT_DIR/info/attributes` file (which has the highest
 precedence), `.gitattributes` file in the same directory as the
 path in question, and its parent directories up to the toplevel of the
 work tree (the further the directory that contains `.gitattributes`
-is from the path in question, the lower its precedence).
+is from the path in question, the lower its precedence). Finally
+global and system-wide files are considered (they have the lowest
+precedence).
 
 If you wish to affect only a single repository (i.e., to assign
-attributes to files that are particular to one user's workflow), then
+attributes to files that are particular to
+one user's workflow for that repository), then
 attributes should be placed in the `$GIT_DIR/info/attributes` file.
 Attributes which should be version-controlled and distributed to other
 repositories (i.e., attributes of interest to all users) should go into
-`.gitattributes` files.
+`.gitattributes` files. Attributes that should affect all repositories
+for a single user should be placed in a file specified by the
+`core.attributesfile` configuration option (see linkgit:git-config[1]).
+Attributes for all users on a system should be placed in the
+`$(prefix)/etc/gitattributes` file.
 
 Sometimes you would need to override an setting of an attribute
 for a path to `unspecified` state.  This can be done by listing
@@ -317,6 +324,17 @@ command is "cat").
 	smudge = cat
 ------------------------
 
+For best results, `clean` should not alter its output further if it is
+run twice ("clean->clean" should be equivalent to "clean"), and
+multiple `smudge` commands should not alter `clean`'s output
+("smudge->smudge->clean" should be equivalent to "clean").  See the
+section on merging below.
+
+The "indent" filter is well-behaved in this regard: it will not modify
+input that is already correctly indented.  In this case, the lack of a
+smudge filter means that the clean filter _must_ accept its own output
+without modifying it.
+
 
 Interaction between checkin/checkout attributes
 ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
@@ -331,6 +349,29 @@ In the check-out codepath, the blob content is first converted
 with `text`, and then `ident` and fed to `filter`.
 
 
+Merging branches with differing checkin/checkout attributes
+^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
+
+If you have added attributes to a file that cause the canonical
+repository format for that file to change, such as adding a
+clean/smudge filter or text/eol/ident attributes, merging anything
+where the attribute is not in place would normally cause merge
+conflicts.
+
+To prevent these unnecessary merge conflicts, git can be told to run a
+virtual check-out and check-in of all three stages of a file when
+resolving a three-way merge by setting the `merge.renormalize`
+configuration variable.  This prevents changes caused by check-in
+conversion from causing spurious merge conflicts when a converted file
+is merged with an unconverted file.
+
+As long as a "smudge->clean" results in the same output as a "clean"
+even on files that are already smudged, this strategy will
+automatically resolve all filter-related conflicts.  Filters that do
+not act in this way may cause additional merge conflicts that must be
+resolved manually.
+
+
 Generating diff text
 ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
 
@@ -441,6 +482,10 @@ patterns are available:
 
 - `cpp` suitable for source code in the C and C++ languages.
 
+- `csharp` suitable for source code in the C# language.
+
+- `fortran` suitable for source code in the Fortran language.
+
 - `html` suitable for HTML/XHTML documents.
 
 - `java` suitable for source code in the Java language.
diff --git a/Documentation/gitcore-tutorial.txt b/Documentation/gitcore-tutorial.txt
index ed3ddc9..c27d086 100644
--- a/Documentation/gitcore-tutorial.txt
+++ b/Documentation/gitcore-tutorial.txt
@@ -110,7 +110,7 @@ An 'object' is identified by its 160-bit SHA1 hash, aka 'object name',
 and a reference to an object is always the 40-byte hex
 representation of that SHA1 name. The files in the `refs`
 subdirectory are expected to contain these hex references
-(usually with a final `\'\n\'` at the end), and you should thus
+(usually with a final `\n` at the end), and you should thus
 expect to see a number of 41-byte files containing these
 references in these `refs` subdirectories when you actually start
 populating your tree.
@@ -310,7 +310,7 @@ and this will just output the name of the resulting tree, in this case
 ----------------
 
 which is another incomprehensible object name. Again, if you want to,
-you can use `git cat-file -t 8988d\...` to see that this time the object
+you can use `git cat-file -t 8988d...` to see that this time the object
 is not a "blob" object, but a "tree" object (you can also use
 `git cat-file` to actually output the raw object contents, but you'll see
 mainly a binary mess, so that's less interesting).
@@ -436,8 +436,8 @@ $ git update-index hello
 (note how we didn't need the `\--add` flag this time, since git knew
 about the file already).
 
-Note what happens to the different 'git diff-\*' versions here. After
-we've updated `hello` in the index, `git diff-files -p` now shows no
+Note what happens to the different 'git diff-{asterisk}' versions here.
+After we've updated `hello` in the index, `git diff-files -p` now shows no
 differences, but `git diff-index -p HEAD` still *does* show that the
 current state is different from the state we committed. In fact, now
 'git diff-index' shows the same difference whether we use the `--cached`
@@ -494,7 +494,7 @@ and it will show what the last commit (in `HEAD`) actually changed.
 [NOTE]
 ============
 Here is an ASCII art by Jon Loeliger that illustrates how
-various diff-\* commands compare things.
+various 'diff-{asterisk}' commands compare things.
 
                       diff-tree
                        +----+
@@ -958,11 +958,11 @@ $ git show-branch --topo-order --more=1 master mybranch
 The first two lines indicate that it is showing the two branches
 and the first line of the commit log message from their
 top-of-the-tree commits, you are currently on `master` branch
-(notice the asterisk `\*` character), and the first column for
+(notice the asterisk `{asterisk}` character), and the first column for
 the later output lines is used to show commits contained in the
 `master` branch, and the second column for the `mybranch`
 branch. Three commits are shown along with their log messages.
-All of them have non blank characters in the first column (`*`
+All of them have non blank characters in the first column (`{asterisk}`
 shows an ordinary commit on the current branch, `-` is a merge commit), which
 means they are now part of the `master` branch. Only the "Some
 work" commit has the plus `+` character in the second column,
@@ -971,7 +971,7 @@ commits from the master branch.  The string inside brackets
 before the commit log message is a short name you can use to
 name the commit.  In the above example, 'master' and 'mybranch'
 are branch heads.  'master^' is the first parent of 'master'
-branch head.  Please see linkgit:gitrevisions[1] if you want to
+branch head.  Please see linkgit:gitrevisions[7] if you want to
 see more complex cases.
 
 [NOTE]
@@ -1092,7 +1092,7 @@ Downloader from http and https URL
 first obtains the topmost commit object name from the remote site
 by looking at the specified refname under `repo.git/refs/` directory,
 and then tries to obtain the
-commit object by downloading from `repo.git/objects/xx/xxx\...`
+commit object by downloading from `repo.git/objects/xx/xxx...`
 using the object name of that commit object.  Then it reads the
 commit object to find out its parent commits and the associate
 tree object; it repeats this process until it gets all the
@@ -1420,7 +1420,7 @@ packed, and stores the packed file in `.git/objects/pack`
 directory.
 
 [NOTE]
-You will see two files, `pack-\*.pack` and `pack-\*.idx`,
+You will see two files, `pack-{asterisk}.pack` and `pack-{asterisk}.idx`,
 in `.git/objects/pack` directory. They are closely related to
 each other, and if you ever copy them by hand to a different
 repository for whatever reason, you should make sure you copy
diff --git a/Documentation/gitdiffcore.txt b/Documentation/gitdiffcore.txt
index 5d91a7e..6af29a4 100644
--- a/Documentation/gitdiffcore.txt
+++ b/Documentation/gitdiffcore.txt
@@ -227,9 +227,9 @@ changes that touch a specified string, and is controlled by the
 commands.
 
 When diffcore-pickaxe is in use, it checks if there are
-filepairs whose "result" side has the specified string and
-whose "origin" side does not.  Such a filepair represents "the
-string appeared in this changeset".  It also checks for the
+filepairs whose "result" side and whose "origin" side have
+different number of specified string.  Such a filepair represents
+"the string appeared in this changeset".  It also checks for the
 opposite case that loses the specified string.
 
 When `\--pickaxe-all` is not in effect, diffcore-pickaxe leaves
diff --git a/Documentation/gitignore.txt b/Documentation/gitignore.txt
index e10fa88..7dc2e8b 100644
--- a/Documentation/gitignore.txt
+++ b/Documentation/gitignore.txt
@@ -90,12 +90,12 @@ Patterns have the following format:
  - Otherwise, git treats the pattern as a shell glob suitable
    for consumption by fnmatch(3) with the FNM_PATHNAME flag:
    wildcards in the pattern will not match a / in the pathname.
-   For example, "Documentation/\*.html" matches
+   For example, "Documentation/{asterisk}.html" matches
    "Documentation/git.html" but not "Documentation/ppc/ppc.html"
    or "tools/perf/Documentation/perf.html".
 
  - A leading slash matches the beginning of the pathname.
-   For example, "/*.c" matches "cat-file.c" but not
+   For example, "/{asterisk}.c" matches "cat-file.c" but not
    "mozilla-sha1/sha1.c".
 
 An example:
diff --git a/Documentation/gitk.txt b/Documentation/gitk.txt
index 05ac1c7..e21bac4 100644
--- a/Documentation/gitk.txt
+++ b/Documentation/gitk.txt
@@ -69,7 +69,7 @@ frequently used options.
 	the form "'<from>'..'<to>'" to show all revisions between '<from>' and
 	back to '<to>'. Note, more advanced revision selection can be applied.
 	For a more complete list of ways to spell object names, see
-	linkgit:gitrevisions[1].
+	linkgit:gitrevisions[7].
 
 <path>...::
 
diff --git a/Documentation/gitmodules.txt b/Documentation/gitmodules.txt
index 72a13d1..bcffd95 100644
--- a/Documentation/gitmodules.txt
+++ b/Documentation/gitmodules.txt
@@ -44,6 +44,21 @@ submodule.<name>.update::
 	This config option is overridden if 'git submodule update' is given
 	the '--merge' or '--rebase' options.
 
+submodule.<name>.ignore::
+	Defines under what circumstances "git status" and the diff family show
+	a submodule as modified. When set to "all", it will never be considered
+	modified, "dirty" will ignore all changes to the submodules work tree and
+	takes only differences between the HEAD of the submodule and the commit
+	recorded in the superproject into account. "untracked" will additionally
+	let submodules with modified tracked files in their work tree show up.
+	Using "none" (the default when this option is not set) also shows
+	submodules that have untracked files in their work tree as changed.
+	If this option is also present in the submodules entry in .git/config of
+	the superproject, the setting there will override the one found in
+	.gitmodules.
+	Both settings can be overridden on the command line by using the
+	"--ignore-submodule" option.
+
 
 EXAMPLES
 --------
diff --git a/Documentation/gitrepository-layout.txt b/Documentation/gitrepository-layout.txt
index 3cd32d6..eb3d040 100644
--- a/Documentation/gitrepository-layout.txt
+++ b/Documentation/gitrepository-layout.txt
@@ -16,7 +16,7 @@ You may find these things in your git repository (`.git`
 directory for a repository associated with your working tree, or
 `<project>.git` directory for a public 'bare' repository. It is
 also possible to have a working tree where `.git` is a plain
-ascii file containing `gitdir: <path>`, i.e. the path to the
+ASCII file containing `gitdir: <path>`, i.e. the path to the
 real git repository).
 
 objects::
diff --git a/Documentation/gittutorial-2.txt b/Documentation/gittutorial-2.txt
index ecab0c0..7fe5848 100644
--- a/Documentation/gittutorial-2.txt
+++ b/Documentation/gittutorial-2.txt
@@ -373,7 +373,7 @@ $ git status
 #
 #       new file: closing.txt
 #
-# Changed but not updated:
+# Changes not staged for commit:
 #   (use "git add <file>..." to update what will be committed)
 #
 #       modified: file.txt
diff --git a/Documentation/gittutorial.txt b/Documentation/gittutorial.txt
index 1c16066..0982f74 100644
--- a/Documentation/gittutorial.txt
+++ b/Documentation/gittutorial.txt
@@ -385,7 +385,7 @@ alice$ git fetch bob
 
 Unlike the longhand form, when Alice fetches from Bob using a
 remote repository shorthand set up with 'git remote', what was
-fetched is stored in a remote tracking branch, in this case
+fetched is stored in a remote-tracking branch, in this case
 `bob/master`.  So after this:
 
 -------------------------------------
@@ -402,8 +402,8 @@ could merge the changes into her master branch:
 alice$ git merge bob/master
 -------------------------------------
 
-This `merge` can also be done by 'pulling from her own remote
-tracking branch', like this:
+This `merge` can also be done by 'pulling from her own remote-tracking
+branch', like this:
 
 -------------------------------------
 alice$ git pull . remotes/bob/master
diff --git a/Documentation/glossary-content.txt b/Documentation/glossary-content.txt
index 1f029f8..f04b48e 100644
--- a/Documentation/glossary-content.txt
+++ b/Documentation/glossary-content.txt
@@ -131,7 +131,7 @@ to point at the new commit.
 	you have. In such these cases, you do not make a new <<def_merge,merge>>
 	<<def_commit,commit>> but instead just update to his
 	revision. This will happen frequently on a
-	<<def_tracking_branch,tracking branch>> of a remote
+	<<def_remote_tracking_branch,remote-tracking branch>> of a remote
 	<<def_repository,repository>>.
 
 [[def_fetch]]fetch::
@@ -260,7 +260,7 @@ This commit is referred to as a "merge commit", or sometimes just a
 	The default upstream <<def_repository,repository>>. Most projects have
 	at least one upstream project which they track. By default
 	'origin' is used for that purpose. New upstream updates
-	will be fetched into remote <<def_tracking_branch,tracking branches>> named
+	will be fetched into remote <<def_remote_tracking_branch,remote-tracking branches>> named
 	origin/name-of-upstream-branch, which you can see using
 	`git branch -r`.
 
@@ -349,6 +349,14 @@ This commit is referred to as a "merge commit", or sometimes just a
 	master branch head as to-upstream branch at $URL". See also
 	linkgit:git-push[1].
 
+[[def_remote_tracking_branch]]remote-tracking branch::
+	A regular git <<def_branch,branch>> that is used to follow changes from
+	another <<def_repository,repository>>. A remote-tracking
+	branch should not contain direct modifications or have local commits
+	made to it. A remote-tracking branch can usually be
+	identified as the right-hand-side <<def_ref,ref>> in a Pull:
+	<<def_refspec,refspec>>.
+
 [[def_repository]]repository::
 	A collection of <<def_ref,refs>> together with an
 	<<def_object_database,object database>> containing all objects
@@ -418,14 +426,6 @@ This commit is referred to as a "merge commit", or sometimes just a
 	that each contain very well defined concepts or small incremental yet
 	related changes.
 
-[[def_tracking_branch]]tracking branch::
-	A regular git <<def_branch,branch>> that is used to follow changes from
-	another <<def_repository,repository>>. A tracking
-	branch should not contain direct modifications or have local commits
-	made to it. A tracking branch can usually be
-	identified as the right-hand-side <<def_ref,ref>> in a Pull:
-	<<def_refspec,refspec>>.
-
 [[def_tree]]tree::
 	Either a <<def_working_tree,working tree>>, or a <<def_tree_object,tree
 	object>> together with the dependent <<def_blob_object,blob>> and tree objects
diff --git a/Documentation/howto/revert-a-faulty-merge.txt b/Documentation/howto/revert-a-faulty-merge.txt
index ff5c0bc..6fd7119 100644
--- a/Documentation/howto/revert-a-faulty-merge.txt
+++ b/Documentation/howto/revert-a-faulty-merge.txt
@@ -229,7 +229,7 @@ reverting W.  Mainline's history would look like this:
    A---B---C
 
 But if you don't actually need to change commit A, then you need some way to
-recreate it as a new commit with the same changes in it.  The rebase commmand's
+recreate it as a new commit with the same changes in it.  The rebase command's
 --no-ff option provides a way to do this:
 
     $ git rebase [-i] --no-ff P
diff --git a/Documentation/howto/revert-branch-rebase.txt b/Documentation/howto/revert-branch-rebase.txt
index 8c32da6..093c656 100644
--- a/Documentation/howto/revert-branch-rebase.txt
+++ b/Documentation/howto/revert-branch-rebase.txt
@@ -112,25 +112,19 @@ $ git tag pu-anchor pu
 $ git rebase master
 * Applying: Redo "revert" using three-way merge machinery.
 First trying simple merge strategy to cherry-pick.
-Finished one cherry-pick.
 * Applying: Remove git-apply-patch-script.
 First trying simple merge strategy to cherry-pick.
 Simple cherry-pick fails; trying Automatic cherry-pick.
 Removing Documentation/git-apply-patch-script.txt
 Removing git-apply-patch-script
-Finished one cherry-pick.
 * Applying: Document "git cherry-pick" and "git revert"
 First trying simple merge strategy to cherry-pick.
-Finished one cherry-pick.
 * Applying: mailinfo and applymbox updates
 First trying simple merge strategy to cherry-pick.
-Finished one cherry-pick.
 * Applying: Show commits in topo order and name all commits.
 First trying simple merge strategy to cherry-pick.
-Finished one cherry-pick.
 * Applying: More documentation updates.
 First trying simple merge strategy to cherry-pick.
-Finished one cherry-pick.
 ------------------------------------------------
 
 The temporary tag 'pu-anchor' is me just being careful, in case 'git
diff --git a/Documentation/install-webdoc.sh b/Documentation/install-webdoc.sh
index 34d02a2..76d69a9 100755
--- a/Documentation/install-webdoc.sh
+++ b/Documentation/install-webdoc.sh
@@ -6,13 +6,13 @@ for h in \
 	*.txt *.html \
 	howto/*.txt howto/*.html \
 	technical/*.txt technical/*.html \
-	RelNotes-*.txt *.css
+	RelNotes/*.txt *.css
 do
 	if test ! -f "$h"
 	then
 		: did not match
 	elif test -f "$T/$h" &&
-	   $DIFF -u -I'Last updated [0-9][0-9]-[A-Z][a-z][a-z]-' "$T/$h" "$h"
+		$DIFF -u -I'^Last updated ' "$T/$h" "$h"
 	then
 		:; # up to date
 	else
@@ -30,7 +30,7 @@ for th in \
 do
 	h=`expr "$th" : "$strip_leading"'\(.*\)'`
 	case "$h" in
-	index.html) continue ;;
+	RelNotes-*.txt | index.html) continue ;;
 	esac
 	test -f "$h" && continue
 	echo >&2 "# rm -f $th"
diff --git a/Documentation/merge-config.txt b/Documentation/merge-config.txt
index a403155..92772e7 100644
--- a/Documentation/merge-config.txt
+++ b/Documentation/merge-config.txt
@@ -7,14 +7,26 @@ merge.conflictstyle::
 	marker and the original text before the `=======` marker.
 
 merge.log::
-	Whether to include summaries of merged commits in newly created
-	merge commit messages. False by default.
+	In addition to branch names, populate the log message with at
+	most the specified number of one-line descriptions from the
+	actual commits that are being merged.  Defaults to false, and
+	true is a synoym for 20.
 
 merge.renameLimit::
 	The number of files to consider when performing rename detection
 	during a merge; if not specified, defaults to the value of
 	diff.renameLimit.
 
+merge.renormalize::
+	Tell git that canonical representation of files in the
+	repository has changed over time (e.g. earlier commits record
+	text files with CRLF line endings, but recent ones use LF line
+	endings).  In such a repository, git can convert the data
+	recorded in commits to a canonical form before performing a
+	merge to reduce unnecessary conflicts.  For more information,
+	see section "Merging branches with differing checkin/checkout
+	attributes" in linkgit:gitattributes[5].
+
 merge.stat::
 	Whether to print the diffstat between ORIG_HEAD and the merge result
 	at the end of the merge.  True by default.
diff --git a/Documentation/merge-options.txt b/Documentation/merge-options.txt
index 722d704..e33e0f8 100644
--- a/Documentation/merge-options.txt
+++ b/Documentation/merge-options.txt
@@ -16,11 +16,11 @@ inspect and further tweak the merge result before committing.
 With --no-ff Generate a merge commit even if the merge
 resolved as a fast-forward.
 
---log::
+--log[=<n>]::
 --no-log::
 	In addition to branch names, populate the log message with
-	one-line descriptions from the actual commits that are being
-	merged.
+	one-line descriptions from at most <n> actual commits that are being
+	merged. See also linkgit:git-fmt-merge-msg[1].
 +
 With --no-log do not list one-line descriptions from the
 actual commits being merged.
diff --git a/Documentation/merge-strategies.txt b/Documentation/merge-strategies.txt
index a5bc1db..595a3cf 100644
--- a/Documentation/merge-strategies.txt
+++ b/Documentation/merge-strategies.txt
@@ -40,7 +40,45 @@ the other tree did, declaring 'our' history contains all that happened in it.
 theirs;;
 	This is opposite of 'ours'.
 
-subtree[=path];;
+patience;;
+	With this option, 'merge-recursive' spends a little extra time
+	to avoid mismerges that sometimes occur due to unimportant
+	matching lines (e.g., braces from distinct functions).  Use
+	this when the branches to be merged have diverged wildly.
+	See also linkgit:git-diff[1] `--patience`.
+
+ignore-space-change;;
+ignore-all-space;;
+ignore-space-at-eol;;
+	Treats lines with the indicated type of whitespace change as
+	unchanged for the sake of a three-way merge.  Whitespace
+	changes mixed with other changes to a line are not ignored.
+	See also linkgit:git-diff[1] `-b`, `-w`, and
+	`--ignore-space-at-eol`.
++
+* If 'their' version only introduces whitespace changes to a line,
+  'our' version is used;
+* If 'our' version introduces whitespace changes but 'their'
+  version includes a substantial change, 'their' version is used;
+* Otherwise, the merge proceeds in the usual way.
+
+renormalize;;
+	This runs a virtual check-out and check-in of all three stages
+	of a file when resolving a three-way merge.  This option is
+	meant to be used when merging branches with different clean
+	filters or end-of-line normalization rules.  See "Merging
+	branches with differing checkin/checkout attributes" in
+	linkgit:gitattributes[5] for details.
+
+no-renormalize;;
+	Disables the `renormalize` option.  This overrides the
+	`merge.renormalize` configuration variable.
+
+rename-threshold=<n>;;
+	Controls the similarity threshold used for rename detection.
+	See also linkgit:git-diff[1] `-M`.
+
+subtree[=<path>];;
 	This option is a more advanced form of 'subtree' strategy, where
 	the strategy makes a guess on how two trees must be shifted to
 	match with each other when merging.  Instead, the specified path
diff --git a/Documentation/pretty-options.txt b/Documentation/pretty-options.txt
index 9b6f389..50923e2 100644
--- a/Documentation/pretty-options.txt
+++ b/Documentation/pretty-options.txt
@@ -1,5 +1,5 @@
---pretty[='<format>']::
---format='<format>'::
+--pretty[=<format>]::
+--format=<format>::
 
 	Pretty-print the contents of the commit logs in a given format,
 	where '<format>' can be one of 'oneline', 'short', 'medium',
diff --git a/Documentation/rev-list-options.txt b/Documentation/rev-list-options.txt
index cc562a0..44a2ef1 100644
--- a/Documentation/rev-list-options.txt
+++ b/Documentation/rev-list-options.txt
@@ -13,7 +13,7 @@ include::pretty-options.txt[]
 
 	Synonym for `--date=relative`.
 
---date={relative,local,default,iso,rfc,short,raw}::
+--date=(relative|local|default|iso|rfc|short|raw)::
 
 	Only takes effect for dates shown in human-readable format, such
 	as when using "--pretty". `log.date` config variable sets a default
@@ -45,13 +45,13 @@ endif::git-rev-list[]
 
 --parents::
 
-	Print the parents of the commit.  Also enables parent
-	rewriting, see 'History Simplification' below.
+	Print also the parents of the commit (in the form "commit parent...").
+	Also enables parent rewriting, see 'History Simplification' below.
 
 --children::
 
-	Print the children of the commit.  Also enables parent
-	rewriting, see 'History Simplification' below.
+	Print also the children of the commit (in the form "commit child...").
+	Also enables parent rewriting, see 'History Simplification' below.
 
 ifdef::git-rev-list[]
 --timestamp::
@@ -95,6 +95,8 @@ you would get an output like this:
 	to be printed in between commits, in order for the graph history
 	to be drawn properly.
 +
+This enables parent rewriting, see 'History Simplification' below.
++
 This implies the '--topo-order' option by default, but the
 '--date-order' option may also be specified.
 
@@ -146,6 +148,9 @@ options may be given. See linkgit:git-diff-files[1] for more options.
 -t::
 
 	Show the tree objects in the diff output. This implies '-r'.
+
+-s::
+	Suppress diff output.
 endif::git-rev-list[]
 
 Commit Limiting
@@ -246,29 +251,29 @@ endif::git-rev-list[]
 	Pretend as if all the refs in `refs/` are listed on the
 	command line as '<commit>'.
 
---branches[=pattern]::
+--branches[=<pattern>]::
 
 	Pretend as if all the refs in `refs/heads` are listed
-	on the command line as '<commit>'. If `pattern` is given, limit
+	on the command line as '<commit>'. If '<pattern>' is given, limit
 	branches to ones matching given shell glob. If pattern lacks '?',
 	'*', or '[', '/*' at the end is implied.
 
---tags[=pattern]::
+--tags[=<pattern>]::
 
 	Pretend as if all the refs in `refs/tags` are listed
-	on the command line as '<commit>'. If `pattern` is given, limit
+	on the command line as '<commit>'. If '<pattern>' is given, limit
 	tags to ones matching given shell glob. If pattern lacks '?', '*',
 	or '[', '/*' at the end is implied.
 
---remotes[=pattern]::
+--remotes[=<pattern>]::
 
 	Pretend as if all the refs in `refs/remotes` are listed
-	on the command line as '<commit>'. If `pattern`is given, limit
-	remote tracking branches to ones matching given shell glob.
+	on the command line as '<commit>'. If '<pattern>' is given, limit
+	remote-tracking branches to ones matching given shell glob.
 	If pattern lacks '?', '*', or '[', '/*' at the end is implied.
 
---glob=glob-pattern::
-	Pretend as if all the refs matching shell glob `glob-pattern`
+--glob=<glob-pattern>::
+	Pretend as if all the refs matching shell glob '<glob-pattern>'
 	are listed on the command line as '<commit>'. Leading 'refs/',
 	is automatically prepended if missing. If pattern lacks '?', '*',
 	or '[', '/*' at the end is implied.
@@ -321,7 +326,7 @@ excluded from the output.
 	reflog entries from the most recent one to older ones.
 	When this option is used you cannot specify commits to
 	exclude (that is, '{caret}commit', 'commit1..commit2',
-	nor 'commit1...commit2' notations cannot be used).
+	nor 'commit1\...commit2' notations cannot be used).
 +
 With '\--pretty' format other than oneline (for obvious reasons),
 this causes the output to have two extra lines of information
diff --git a/Documentation/revisions.txt b/Documentation/revisions.txt
index fe846f0..3d4b79c 100644
--- a/Documentation/revisions.txt
+++ b/Documentation/revisions.txt
@@ -107,11 +107,13 @@ the `$GIT_DIR/refs` directory or from the `$GIT_DIR/packed-refs` file.
   found.
 
 * A colon, followed by a slash, followed by a text (e.g. `:/fix nasty bug`): this names
-  a commit whose commit message starts with the specified text.
+  a commit whose commit message matches the specified regular expression.
   This name returns the youngest matching commit which is
   reachable from any ref.  If the commit message starts with a
   '!', you have to repeat that;  the special sequence ':/!',
   followed by something else than '!' is reserved for now.
+  The regular expression can match any part of the commit message. To
+  match messages starting with a string, one can use e.g. `:/^foo`.
 
 * A suffix ':' followed by a path (e.g. `HEAD:README`); this names the blob or tree
   at the given path in the tree-ish object named by the part
diff --git a/Documentation/technical/api-merge.txt b/Documentation/technical/api-merge.txt
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..9dc1bed
--- /dev/null
+++ b/Documentation/technical/api-merge.txt
@@ -0,0 +1,104 @@
+merge API
+=========
+
+The merge API helps a program to reconcile two competing sets of
+improvements to some files (e.g., unregistered changes from the work
+tree versus changes involved in switching to a new branch), reporting
+conflicts if found.  The library called through this API is
+responsible for a few things.
+
+ * determining which trees to merge (recursive ancestor consolidation);
+
+ * lining up corresponding files in the trees to be merged (rename
+   detection, subtree shifting), reporting edge cases like add/add
+   and rename/rename conflicts to the user;
+
+ * performing a three-way merge of corresponding files, taking
+   path-specific merge drivers (specified in `.gitattributes`)
+   into account.
+
+Data structures
+---------------
+
+* `mmbuffer_t`, `mmfile_t`
+
+These store data usable for use by the xdiff backend, for writing and
+for reading, respectively.  See `xdiff/xdiff.h` for the definitions
+and `diff.c` for examples.
+
+* `struct ll_merge_options`
+
+This describes the set of options the calling program wants to affect
+the operation of a low-level (single file) merge.  Some options:
+
+`virtual_ancestor`::
+	Behave as though this were part of a merge between common
+	ancestors in a recursive merge.
+	If a helper program is specified by the
+	`[merge "<driver>"] recursive` configuration, it will
+	be used (see linkgit:gitattributes[5]).
+
+`variant`::
+	Resolve local conflicts automatically in favor
+	of one side or the other (as in 'git merge-file'
+	`--ours`/`--theirs`/`--union`).  Can be `0`,
+	`XDL_MERGE_FAVOR_OURS`, `XDL_MERGE_FAVOR_THEIRS`, or
+	`XDL_MERGE_FAVOR_UNION`.
+
+`renormalize`::
+	Resmudge and clean the "base", "theirs" and "ours" files
+	before merging.  Use this when the merge is likely to have
+	overlapped with a change in smudge/clean or end-of-line
+	normalization rules.
+
+Low-level (single file) merge
+-----------------------------
+
+`ll_merge`::
+
+	Perform a three-way single-file merge in core.  This is
+	a thin wrapper around `xdl_merge` that takes the path and
+	any merge backend specified in `.gitattributes` or
+	`.git/info/attributes` into account.  Returns 0 for a
+	clean merge.
+
+Calling sequence:
+
+* Prepare a `struct ll_merge_options` to record options.
+  If you have no special requests, skip this and pass `NULL`
+  as the `opts` parameter to use the default options.
+
+* Allocate an mmbuffer_t variable for the result.
+
+* Allocate and fill variables with the file's original content
+  and two modified versions (using `read_mmfile`, for example).
+
+* Call `ll_merge()`.
+
+* Read the merged content from `result_buf.ptr` and `result_buf.size`.
+
+* Release buffers when finished.  A simple
+  `free(ancestor.ptr); free(ours.ptr); free(theirs.ptr);
+  free(result_buf.ptr);` will do.
+
+If the modifications do not merge cleanly, `ll_merge` will return a
+nonzero value and `result_buf` will generally include a description of
+the conflict bracketed by markers such as the traditional `<<<<<<<`
+and `>>>>>>>`.
+
+The `ancestor_label`, `our_label`, and `their_label` parameters are
+used to label the different sides of a conflict if the merge driver
+supports this.
+
+Everything else
+---------------
+
+Talk about <merge-recursive.h> and merge_file():
+
+ - merge_trees() to merge with rename detection
+ - merge_recursive() for ancestor consolidation
+ - try_merge_command() for other strategies
+ - conflict format
+ - merge options
+
+(Daniel, Miklos, Stephan, JC)
diff --git a/Documentation/technical/api-parse-options.txt b/Documentation/technical/api-parse-options.txt
index 312e3b2..f6a4a36 100644
--- a/Documentation/technical/api-parse-options.txt
+++ b/Documentation/technical/api-parse-options.txt
@@ -118,13 +118,16 @@ There are some macros to easily define options:
 `OPT__COLOR(&int_var, description)`::
 	Add `\--color[=<when>]` and `--no-color`.
 
-`OPT__DRY_RUN(&int_var)`::
+`OPT__DRY_RUN(&int_var, description)`::
 	Add `-n, \--dry-run`.
 
-`OPT__QUIET(&int_var)`::
+`OPT__FORCE(&int_var, description)`::
+	Add `-f, \--force`.
+
+`OPT__QUIET(&int_var, description)`::
 	Add `-q, \--quiet`.
 
-`OPT__VERBOSE(&int_var)`::
+`OPT__VERBOSE(&int_var, description)`::
 	Add `-v, \--verbose`.
 
 `OPT_GROUP(description)`::
@@ -201,7 +204,7 @@ The last element of the array must be `OPT_END()`.
 If not stated otherwise, interpret the arguments as follows:
 
 * `short` is a character for the short option
-  (e.g. `\'e\'` for `-e`, use `0` to omit),
+  (e.g. `{apostrophe}e{apostrophe}` for `-e`, use `0` to omit),
 
 * `long` is a string for the long option
   (e.g. `"example"` for `\--example`, use `NULL` to omit),
@@ -228,10 +231,10 @@ The function must be defined in this form:
 The callback mechanism is as follows:
 
 * Inside `func`, the only interesting member of the structure
-  given by `opt` is the void pointer `opt->value`.
-  `\*opt->value` will be the value that is saved into `var`, if you
+  given by `opt` is the void pointer `opt\->value`.
+  `\*opt\->value` will be the value that is saved into `var`, if you
   use `OPT_CALLBACK()`.
-  For example, do `*(unsigned long *)opt->value = 42;` to get 42
+  For example, do `*(unsigned long *)opt\->value = 42;` to get 42
   into an `unsigned long` variable.
 
 * Return value `0` indicates success and non-zero return
diff --git a/Documentation/technical/api-sigchain.txt b/Documentation/technical/api-sigchain.txt
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..535cdff
--- /dev/null
+++ b/Documentation/technical/api-sigchain.txt
@@ -0,0 +1,41 @@
+sigchain API
+============
+
+Code often wants to set a signal handler to clean up temporary files or
+other work-in-progress when we die unexpectedly. For multiple pieces of
+code to do this without conflicting, each piece of code must remember
+the old value of the handler and restore it either when:
+
+  1. The work-in-progress is finished, and the handler is no longer
+     necessary. The handler should revert to the original behavior
+     (either another handler, SIG_DFL, or SIG_IGN).
+
+  2. The signal is received. We should then do our cleanup, then chain
+     to the next handler (or die if it is SIG_DFL).
+
+Sigchain is a tiny library for keeping a stack of handlers. Your handler
+and installation code should look something like:
+
+------------------------------------------
+  void clean_foo_on_signal(int sig)
+  {
+	  clean_foo();
+	  sigchain_pop(sig);
+	  raise(sig);
+  }
+
+  void other_func()
+  {
+	  sigchain_push_common(clean_foo_on_signal);
+	  mess_up_foo();
+	  clean_foo();
+  }
+------------------------------------------
+
+Handlers are given the typdef of sigchain_fun. This is the same type
+that is given to signal() or sigaction(). It is perfectly reasonable to
+push SIG_DFL or SIG_IGN onto the stack.
+
+You can sigchain_push and sigchain_pop individual signals. For
+convenience, sigchain_push_common will push the handler onto the stack
+for many common signals.
diff --git a/Documentation/technical/api-tree-walking.txt b/Documentation/technical/api-tree-walking.txt
index 55b7286..14af37c 100644
--- a/Documentation/technical/api-tree-walking.txt
+++ b/Documentation/technical/api-tree-walking.txt
@@ -42,6 +42,8 @@ information.
 
 * `data` can be anything the `fn` callback would want to use.
 
+* `show_all_errors` tells whether to stop at the first error or not.
+
 Initializing
 ------------
 
diff --git a/Documentation/urls.txt b/Documentation/urls.txt
index 1dcd1e7..2890194 100644
--- a/Documentation/urls.txt
+++ b/Documentation/urls.txt
@@ -25,7 +25,7 @@ The ssh and git protocols additionally support ~username expansion:
 - git://host.xz{startsb}:port{endsb}/~{startsb}user{endsb}/path/to/repo.git/
 - {startsb}user@{endsb}host.xz:/~{startsb}user{endsb}/path/to/repo.git/
 
-For local respositories, also supported by git natively, the following
+For local repositories, also supported by git natively, the following
 syntaxes may be used:
 
 - /path/to/repo.git/
diff --git a/Documentation/user-manual.txt b/Documentation/user-manual.txt
index 22aee34..f13a846 100644
--- a/Documentation/user-manual.txt
+++ b/Documentation/user-manual.txt
@@ -344,7 +344,8 @@ Examining branches from a remote repository
 The "master" branch that was created at the time you cloned is a copy
 of the HEAD in the repository that you cloned from.  That repository
 may also have had other branches, though, and your local repository
-keeps branches which track each of those remote branches, which you
+keeps branches which track each of those remote branches, called
+remote-tracking branches, which you
 can view using the "-r" option to linkgit:git-branch[1]:
 
 ------------------------------------------------
@@ -359,13 +360,23 @@ $ git branch -r
   origin/todo
 ------------------------------------------------
 
-You cannot check out these remote-tracking branches, but you can
-examine them on a branch of your own, just as you would a tag:
+In this example, "origin" is called a remote repository, or "remote"
+for short. The branches of this repository are called "remote
+branches" from our point of view. The remote-tracking branches listed
+above were created based on the remote branches at clone time and will
+be updated by "git fetch" (hence "git pull") and "git push". See
+<<Updating-a-repository-With-git-fetch>> for details.
+
+You might want to build on one of these remote-tracking branches
+on a branch of your own, just as you would for a tag:
 
 ------------------------------------------------
 $ git checkout -b my-todo-copy origin/todo
 ------------------------------------------------
 
+You can also check out "origin/todo" directly to examine it or
+write a one-off patch.  See <<detached-head,detached head>>.
+
 Note that the name "origin" is just the name that git uses by default
 to refer to the repository that you cloned from.
 
@@ -397,7 +408,7 @@ is usually a shortcut for the HEAD branch in the repository "origin".
 For the complete list of paths which git checks for references, and
 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:gitrevisions[1].
+REVISIONS" section of linkgit:gitrevisions[7].
 
 [[Updating-a-repository-With-git-fetch]]
 Updating a repository with git fetch
@@ -435,7 +446,7 @@ linux-nfs/master
 origin/master
 -------------------------------------------------
 
-If you run "git fetch <remote>" later, the tracking branches for the
+If you run "git fetch <remote>" later, the remote-tracking branches for the
 named <remote> will be updated.
 
 If you examine the file .git/config, you will see that git has added
@@ -568,7 +579,7 @@ We have seen several ways of naming commits already:
 	- HEAD: refers to the head of the current branch
 
 There are many more; see the "SPECIFYING REVISIONS" section of the
-linkgit:gitrevisions[1] man page for the complete list of ways to
+linkgit:gitrevisions[7] man page for the complete list of ways to
 name revisions.  Some examples:
 
 -------------------------------------------------
@@ -909,7 +920,7 @@ commits reachable from some head but not from any tag in the repository:
 $ gitk $( git show-ref --heads ) --not  $( git show-ref --tags )
 -------------------------------------------------
 
-(See linkgit:gitrevisions[1] for explanations of commit-selecting
+(See linkgit:gitrevisions[7] for explanations of commit-selecting
 syntax such as `--not`.)
 
 [[making-a-release]]
@@ -955,7 +966,7 @@ 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-commits-With-given-Content]]
 Finding commits referencing a file with given content
 ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
 
@@ -1635,7 +1646,7 @@ you've checked out.
 The reflogs are kept by default for 30 days, after which they may be
 pruned.  See linkgit:git-reflog[1] and linkgit:git-gc[1] to learn
 how to control this pruning, and see the "SPECIFYING REVISIONS"
-section of linkgit:gitrevisions[1] for details.
+section of linkgit:gitrevisions[7] for details.
 
 Note that the reflog history is very different from normal git history.
 While normal history is shared by every repository that works on the
@@ -1700,7 +1711,7 @@ 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
-keep remote tracking branches up to date>> with linkgit:git-fetch[1],
+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:
 
@@ -1716,15 +1727,21 @@ one step:
 $ git pull origin master
 -------------------------------------------------
 
-In fact, if you have "master" checked out, then by default "git pull"
-merges from the HEAD branch of the origin repository.  So often you can
+In fact, if you have "master" checked out, then this branch has been
+configured by "git clone" to get changes from the HEAD branch of the
+origin repository.  So often you can
 accomplish the above with just a simple
 
 -------------------------------------------------
 $ git pull
 -------------------------------------------------
 
-More generally, a branch that is created from a remote branch will pull
+This command will fetch changes from the remote branches to your
+remote-tracking branches `origin/*`, and merge the default branch into
+the current branch.
+
+More generally, a branch that is created from a remote-tracking branch
+will pull
 by default from that branch.  See the descriptions of the
 branch.<name>.remote and branch.<name>.merge options in
 linkgit:git-config[1], and the discussion of the `--track` option in
@@ -2106,7 +2123,7 @@ $ git clone git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux-2.6.git
 $ cd work
 -------------------------------------------------
 
-Linus's tree will be stored in the remote branch named origin/master,
+Linus's tree will be stored in the remote-tracking branch named origin/master,
 and can be updated using linkgit:git-fetch[1]; you can track other
 public trees using linkgit:git-remote[1] to set up a "remote" and
 linkgit:git-fetch[1] to keep them up-to-date; see
@@ -2171,11 +2188,14 @@ $ git push mytree release
 
 Now to apply some patches from the community.  Think of a short
 snappy name for a branch to hold this patch (or related group of
-patches), and create a new branch from the current tip of Linus's
-branch:
+patches), and create a new branch from a recent stable tag of
+Linus's branch. Picking a stable base for your branch will:
+1) help you: by avoiding inclusion of unrelated and perhaps lightly
+tested changes
+2) help future bug hunters that use "git bisect" to find problems
 
 -------------------------------------------------
-$ git checkout -b speed-up-spinlocks origin
+$ git checkout -b speed-up-spinlocks v2.6.35
 -------------------------------------------------
 
 Now you apply the patch(es), run some tests, and commit the change(s).  If
@@ -2439,9 +2459,9 @@ You have performed no merges into mywork, so it is just a simple linear
 sequence of patches on top of "origin":
 
 ................................................
- o--o--o <-- origin
+ o--o--O <-- origin
         \
-         o--o--o <-- mywork
+	 a--b--c <-- mywork
 ................................................
 
 Some more interesting work has been done in the upstream project, and
@@ -2797,8 +2817,8 @@ Be aware that commits that the old version of example/master pointed at
 may be lost, as we saw in the previous section.
 
 [[remote-branch-configuration]]
-Configuring remote branches
----------------------------
+Configuring remote-tracking branches
+------------------------------------
 
 We saw above that "origin" is just a shortcut to refer to the
 repository that you originally cloned from.  This information is
@@ -3850,7 +3870,7 @@ You create a commit object by giving it the tree that describes the
 state at the time of the commit, and a list of parents:
 
 -------------------------------------------------
-$ git commit-tree <tree> -p <parent> [-p <parent2> ..]
+$ git commit-tree <tree> -p <parent> [(-p <parent2>)...]
 -------------------------------------------------
 
 and then giving the reason for the commit on stdin (either through
@@ -4251,9 +4271,9 @@ Two things are interesting here:
   negative numbers in case of different errors--and 0 on success.
 
 - the variable `sha1` in the function signature of `get_sha1()` is `unsigned
-  char \*`, but is actually expected to be a pointer to `unsigned
+  char {asterisk}`, but is actually expected to be a pointer to `unsigned
   char[20]`.  This variable will contain the 160-bit SHA-1 of the given
-  commit.  Note that whenever a SHA-1 is passed as `unsigned char \*`, it
+  commit.  Note that whenever a SHA-1 is passed as `unsigned char {asterisk}`, it
   is the binary representation, as opposed to the ASCII representation in
   hex characters, which is passed as `char *`.