Merge branch 'maint'

* maint:
  Hopefully the final draft release notes update before 1.6.0.3
  diff(1): clarify what "T"ypechange status means
  contrib: update packinfo.pl to not use dashed commands
  force_object_loose: Fix memory leak
  tests: shell negation portability fix

Documentation/RelNotes-1.6.0.3.txt

@@ -24,6 +24,12 @@ Fixes since v1.6.0.2
 * "git diff --no-index" on binary files no longer outputs a bogus
   "diff --git" header line.
 
+* "git diff" hunk header patterns with multiple elements separated by LF
+  were not used correctly.
+
+* "git gc" when ejecting otherwise unreachable objects from packfiles into
+  loose form leaked memory.
+
 * Hunk headers in "git diff" default to using extended regular
   expressions, fixing some of the internal patterns on non-GNU
   platforms.
@@ -47,6 +53,8 @@ Fixes since v1.6.0.2
 
 * "git remote show -v" now displays all URLs of a remote.
 
+* "git checkout -b branch" was confused when branch already existed.
+
 * "git checkout -q" once again suppresses the locally modified file list.
 
 * "git clone -q", "git fetch -q" asks remote side to not send
@@ -107,6 +115,6 @@ Many other documentation updates.
 
 --
 exec >/var/tmp/1
-O=v1.6.0.2-95-g72d404d
+O=v1.6.0.2-110-gf07c3c5
 echo O=$(git describe maint)
 git shortlog --no-merges $O..maint

Documentation/diff-options.txt

@@ -137,7 +137,8 @@ endif::git-format-patch[]
 --diff-filter=[ACDMRTUXB*]::
 	Select only files that are Added (`A`), Copied (`C`),
 	Deleted (`D`), Modified (`M`), Renamed (`R`), have their
-	type (mode) changed (`T`), are Unmerged (`U`), are
+	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

contrib/stats/packinfo.pl

@@ -1,9 +1,9 @@
 #!/usr/bin/perl
 #
 # This tool will print vaguely pretty information about a pack.  It
-# expects the output of "git-verify-pack -v" as input on stdin.
+# expects the output of "git verify-pack -v" as input on stdin.
 #
-# $ git-verify-pack -v | packinfo.pl
+# $ git verify-pack -v | packinfo.pl
 #
 # This prints some full-pack statistics; currently "all sizes", "all
 # path sizes", "tree sizes", "tree path sizes", and "depths".
@@ -20,7 +20,7 @@
 #
 # When run as:
 #
-# $ git-verify-pack -v | packinfo.pl -tree
+# $ git verify-pack -v | packinfo.pl -tree
 #
 # the trees of objects are output along with the stats.  This looks
 # like:
@@ -43,7 +43,7 @@
 #
 # When run as:
 #
-# $ git-verify-pack -v | packinfo.pl -tree -filenames
+# $ git verify-pack -v | packinfo.pl -tree -filenames
 #
 # it adds filenames to the tree.  Getting this information is slow:
 #
@@ -58,7 +58,7 @@
 #
 # When run as:
 #
-# $ git-verify-pack -v | packinfo.pl -dump
+# $ git verify-pack -v | packinfo.pl -dump
 #
 # it prints out "sha1 size pathsize depth" for each sha1 in lexical
 # order.
@@ -106,7 +106,7 @@ while (<STDIN>) {
 }
 
 if ($filenames && ($tree || $dump)) {
-    open(NAMES, "git-name-rev --all|");
+    open(NAMES, "git name-rev --all|");
     while (<NAMES>) {
         if (/^(\S+)\s+(.*)$/) {
             my ($sha1, $name) = ($1, $2);
@@ -117,7 +117,7 @@ if ($filenames && ($tree || $dump)) {
 
     for my $commit (@commits) {
         my $name = $names{$commit};
-        open(TREE, "git-ls-tree -t -r $commit|");
+        open(TREE, "git ls-tree -t -r $commit|");
         print STDERR "Plumbing tree $name\n";
         while (<TREE>) {
             if (/^(\S+)\s+(\S+)\s+(\S+)\s+(.*)$/) {

sha1_file.c

@@ -2333,6 +2333,7 @@ int force_object_loose(const unsigned char *sha1, time_t mtime)
 	enum object_type type;
 	char hdr[32];
 	int hdrlen;
+	int ret;
 
 	if (has_loose_object(sha1))
 		return 0;
@@ -2340,7 +2341,10 @@ int force_object_loose(const unsigned char *sha1, time_t mtime)
 	if (!buf)
 		return error("cannot read sha1_file for %s", sha1_to_hex(sha1));
 	hdrlen = sprintf(hdr, "%s %lu", typename(type), len) + 1;
-	return write_loose_object(sha1, hdr, hdrlen, buf, len, mtime);
+	ret = write_loose_object(sha1, hdr, hdrlen, buf, len, mtime);
+	free(buf);
+
+	return ret;
 }
 
 int has_pack_index(const unsigned char *sha1)