Many things pushed out to 'master'

I've merged a handful topics that have been cooking in 'next' to
'master'.  Except for a few big topics still in 'next', this brings the
tip of 'master' much closer to what will become 1.5.4.

As always has been promised, the tip of 'master' is designed to be more
stable than any released version without introducing regression, and we
need to test how true that is from time to time ;-).

Please keep the fixes flowing.  The next batch will be "commit in C" and
"add --patch" series.

Hi,

On Mon, 3 Dec 2007, Junio C Hamano wrote:

I've merged a handful topics that have been cooking in 'next' to 
'master'.  Except for a few big topics still in 'next', this brings the 
tip of 'master' much closer to what will become 1.5.4.

I usually run off next + patches, so I do not know if fast-export already 
made it to "master".

But I remembered that you requested a mode for signed tags where they 
would just be copied.  I just realised while implementing "verbatim" that 
"ignore" does just that.  Maybe we should rename this mode to "verbatim"?

And maybe you want to make it the default (even if I think that this will 
result in more surprise moments than the current mode which aborts).

Ciao,
Dscho