• The configuration parser had a buffer overflow while parsing an overlong value.

• pruning reflog entries that are unreachable from the tip of the ref during "git reflog prune" (hence "git gc") was very inefficient.

• "git-add -p" lacked a way to say "q"uit to refuse staging any hunks for the remaining paths. You had to say "d" and then ^C.

• "git-checkout <tree-ish> <submodule>" did not update the index entry at the named path; it now does.

• "git-fast-export" choked when seeing a tag that does not point at commit.

• "git init" segfaulted when given an overlong template location via the --template= option.

• "git-ls-tree" and "git-diff-tree" used a pathspec correctly when deciding to descend into a subdirectory but they did not match the individual paths correctly. This caused pathspecs "abc/d ab" to match "abc/0" ("abc/d" made them decide to descend into the directory "abc/", and then "ab" incorrectly matched "abc/0" when it shouldn’t).

• "git-merge-recursive" was broken when a submodule entry was involved in a criss-cross merge situation.

Many small documentation updates are included as well.

exec >/var/tmp/1 echo O=$(git describe maint) O=v1.6.2.3-38-g318b847 git shortlog --no-merges $O..maint