Merge branch 'maint'

* maint:
  diff-patch: Avoid emitting double-slashes in textual patch.
  Reword git-am 3-way fallback failure message.
  Limit filename for format-patch
  core.legacyheaders: Use the description used in RelNotes-1.5.0
  git-show-ref --verify: Fail if called without a reference

Conflicts:

	builtin-show-ref.c
	diff.c

Documentation/config.txt

@@ -192,10 +192,17 @@ core.compression::
 	slowest.
 
 core.legacyheaders::
-	A boolean which enables the legacy object header format in case
+	A boolean which
-	you want to interoperate with old clients accessing the object
+	changes the format of loose objects so that they are more
-	database directly (where the "http://" and "rsync://" protocols
+	efficient to pack and to send out of the repository over git
-	count as direct access).
+	native protocol, since v1.4.2.  However, loose objects
+	written in the new format cannot be read by git older than
+	that version; people fetching from your repository using
+	older versions of git over dumb transports (e.g. http)
+	will also be affected.
++
+To let git use the new loose object format, you have to
+set core.legacyheaders to false.
 
 core.packedGitWindowSize::
 	Number of bytes of a pack file to map into memory in a

builtin-log.c

@@ -224,6 +224,9 @@ int cmd_log(int argc, const char **argv, const char *prefix)
 	return cmd_log_walk(&rev);
 }
 
+/* format-patch */
+#define FORMAT_PATCH_NAME_MAX 64
+
 static int istitlechar(char c)
 {
 	return (c >= 'a' && c <= 'z') || (c >= 'A' && c <= 'Z') ||
@@ -264,15 +267,18 @@ static int git_format_config(const char *var, const char *value)
 static FILE *realstdout = NULL;
 static const char *output_directory = NULL;
 
-static void reopen_stdout(struct commit *commit, int nr, int keep_subject)
+static int reopen_stdout(struct commit *commit, int nr, int keep_subject)
 {
-	char filename[1024];
+	char filename[PATH_MAX];
 	char *sol;
 	int len = 0;
-	int suffix_len = strlen(fmt_patch_suffix) + 10; /* ., NUL and slop */
+	int suffix_len = strlen(fmt_patch_suffix) + 1;
 
 	if (output_directory) {
-		strlcpy(filename, output_directory, 1000);
+		if (strlen(output_directory) >=
+		    sizeof(filename) - FORMAT_PATCH_NAME_MAX - suffix_len)
+			return error("name of output directory is too long");
+		strlcpy(filename, output_directory, sizeof(filename) - suffix_len);
 		len = strlen(filename);
 		if (filename[len - 1] != '/')
 			filename[len++] = '/';
@@ -297,7 +303,8 @@ static void reopen_stdout(struct commit *commit, int nr, int keep_subject)
 		}
 
 		for (j = 0;
-		     len < sizeof(filename) - suffix_len &&
+		     j < FORMAT_PATCH_NAME_MAX - suffix_len - 5 &&
+			     len < sizeof(filename) - suffix_len &&
 			     sol[j] && sol[j] != '\n';
 		     j++) {
 			if (istitlechar(sol[j])) {
@@ -314,10 +321,16 @@ static void reopen_stdout(struct commit *commit, int nr, int keep_subject)
 		}
 		while (filename[len - 1] == '.' || filename[len - 1] == '-')
 			len--;
+		filename[len] = 0;
 	}
+	if (len + suffix_len >= sizeof(filename))
+		return error("Patch pathname too long");
 	strcpy(filename + len, fmt_patch_suffix);
 	fprintf(realstdout, "%s\n", filename);
-	freopen(filename, "w", stdout);
+	if (freopen(filename, "w", stdout) == NULL)
+		return error("Cannot open patch file %s",filename);
+	return 0;
+
 }
 
 static int get_patch_id(struct commit *commit, struct diff_options *options,
@@ -573,7 +586,8 @@ int cmd_format_patch(int argc, const char **argv, const char *prefix)
 			rev.message_id = message_id;
 		}
 		if (!use_stdout)
-			reopen_stdout(commit, rev.nr, keep_subject);
+			if (reopen_stdout(commit, rev.nr, keep_subject))
+				die("Failed to create output files");
 		shown = log_tree_commit(&rev, commit);
 		free(commit->buffer);
 		commit->buffer = NULL;

builtin-show-ref.c

@@ -221,9 +221,11 @@ int cmd_show_ref(int argc, const char **argv, const char *prefix)
 	}
 
 	if (verify) {
-		unsigned char sha1[20];
+		if (!pattern)
-
+			die("--verify requires a reference");
 		while (*pattern) {
+			unsigned char sha1[20];
+
 			if (!prefixcmp(*pattern, "refs/") &&
 			    resolve_ref(*pattern, sha1, 1, NULL)) {
 				if (!quiet)

diff.c

@@ -219,6 +219,8 @@ static void emit_rewrite_diff(const char *name_a,
 	const char *new = diff_get_color(color_diff, DIFF_FILE_NEW);
 	const char *reset = diff_get_color(color_diff, DIFF_RESET);
 
+	name_a += (*name_a == '/');
+	name_b += (*name_b == '/');
 	name_a_tab = strchr(name_a, ' ') ? "\t" : "";
 	name_b_tab = strchr(name_b, ' ') ? "\t" : "";
 
@@ -1064,8 +1066,8 @@ static void builtin_diff(const char *name_a,
 	const char *set = diff_get_color(o->color_diff, DIFF_METAINFO);
 	const char *reset = diff_get_color(o->color_diff, DIFF_RESET);
 
-	a_one = quote_two("a/", name_a);
+	a_one = quote_two("a/", name_a + (*name_a == '/'));
-	b_two = quote_two("b/", name_b);
+	b_two = quote_two("b/", name_b + (*name_b == '/'));
 	lbl[0] = DIFF_FILE_VALID(one) ? a_one : "/dev/null";
 	lbl[1] = DIFF_FILE_VALID(two) ? b_two : "/dev/null";
 	printf("%sdiff --git %s %s%s\n", set, a_one, b_two, reset);

git-am.sh

@@ -66,7 +66,7 @@ fall_back_3way () {
     git-update-index -z --index-info <"$dotest/patch-merge-index-info" &&
     GIT_INDEX_FILE="$dotest/patch-merge-tmp-index" \
     git-write-tree >"$dotest/patch-merge-base+" ||
-    cannot_fallback "Patch does not record usable index information."
+    cannot_fallback "Repository lacks necessary blobs to fall back on 3-way merge."
 
     echo Using index info to reconstruct a base tree...
     if GIT_INDEX_FILE="$dotest/patch-merge-tmp-index" \