* The 'maint' branch has produced a new release 1.4.4.2

* In the 'master' branch:

  - we now officially favor 'remotes' information to be in
    $GIT_DIR/config, and 'git clone' records origin in there,
    not in $GIT_DIR/remotes/origin (thanks to Andy Parkins).

  - "git send-pack $URL :refs/heads/$branch" can be used to
    delete a remote branch (so does "git push $URL :$ref" over
    git native protocols).

  - built-in shortlog lets you directly say "git shortlog
    v2.6.18..master", instead of piping an output from the
    corresponding "git log v2.6.18..master" into it.

  - git-svn updates
  - gitweb updates
  - gitk updates
  - bash completion updates

The shortlog since the last announcement for 'master' is:

Alex Riesen (2):
      git-blame: fix rev parameter handling.
      Make perl/ build procedure ActiveState friendly.

Andreas Ericsson (2):
      ls-files: Give hints when errors happen.
      git-diff: Introduce --index and deprecate --cached.

Andy Parkins (3):
      Use .git/config for storing "origin" shortcut repository
      Document git-repo-config --bool/--int options.
      De-emphasise the symbolic link documentation.

David Miller (1):
      Pass -M to diff in request-pull

Eric Wong (10):
      git-svn: use ~/.subversion config files when using SVN:: libraries
      git-svn: enable delta transfers during fetches when using SVN:: libs
      git-svn: update tests for recent changes
      git-svn: error out when the SVN connection fails during a fetch
      git-svn: fix output reporting from the delta fetcher
      git-svn: color support for the log command
      git-svn: documentation updates
      git-svn: fix multi-init
      git-svn: avoid fetching files twice in the same revision
      git-svn: avoid network timeouts for long-running fetches

Han-Wen Nienhuys (1):
      ident.c: Trim hint printed when gecos is empty.

J. Bruce Fields (1):
      cvs-migration: improved section titles, better push/commit explanation

Jakub Narebski (4):
      gitweb: Fix Atom feed <logo>: it is $logo, not $logo_url
      git-clone: Rename --use-immingled-remote option to --no-separate-remote
      Document git-diff whitespace flags -b and -w
      gitweb: Allow PNG, GIF, JPEG images to be displayed in "blob" view

Jim Meyering (1):
      Set permissions of each new file before "cvs add"ing it.

Johannes Schindelin (10):
      Build in shortlog
      shortlog: do not crash on parsing "[PATCH"
      shortlog: read mailmap from ./.mailmap again
      shortlog: handle email addresses case-insensitively
      shortlog: fix "-n"
      shortlog: use pager
      sha1_object_info(): be consistent with read_sha1_file()
      git-mv: search more precisely for source directory in index
      diff -b: ignore whitespace at end of line
      cvs-migration document: make the need for "push" more obvious

Junio C Hamano (24):
      Store peeled refs in packed-refs file.
      remove merge-recursive-old
      git-merge: make it usable as the first class UI
      merge: allow merging into a yet-to-be-born branch.
      Store peeled refs in packed-refs (take 2).
      git-fetch: reuse ls-remote result.
      git-fetch: fix dumb protocol transport to fetch from pack-pruned ref
      git-fetch: allow glob pattern in refspec
      Allow git push to delete remote ref.
      git-shortlog: fix common repository prefix abbreviation.
      git-shortlog: make common repository prefix configurable with .mailmap
      git-fetch: allow forcing glob pattern in refspec
      fetch-pack: do not barf when duplicate re patterns are given
      git-merge: tighten error checking.
      git-merge: do not leak rev-parse output used for checking internally.
      cvsimport: style fixup.
      git blame -C: fix output format tweaks when crossing file boundary.
      tutorial: talk about user.name early and don't start with commit -a
      git-merge: fix confusion between tag and branch
      receive-pack: do not insist on fast-forward outside refs/heads/
      unpack-trees: make sure "df_conflict_entry.name" is NUL terminated.
      git-reset to remove "$GIT_DIR/MERGE_MSG"
      git-merge: squelch needless error message.
      git-merge: fix "fix confusion between tag and branch" for real

Michael Loeffler (1):
      git-fetch: ignore dereferenced tags in expand_refs_wildcard

Nicolas Pitre (2):
      builtin git-shortlog is broken
      pack-objects: remove redundent status information

Paul Mackerras (1):
      gitk: Fix enabling/disabling of menu items on Mac OS X

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