Merge commit 'b319ef7' into jc/maint-fix-test-perm

* commit 'b319ef7': (8132 commits)
  Add a small patch-mode testing library
  git-apply--interactive: Refactor patch mode code
  t8005: Nobody writes Russian in shift_jis
  Fix severe breakage in "git-apply --whitespace=fix"
  Update release notes for 1.6.4
  After renaming a section, print any trailing variable definitions
  Make section_name_match start on '[', and return the length on success
  send-email: detect cycles in alias expansion
  Show the presence of untracked files in the bash prompt.
  SunOS grep does not understand -C<n> nor -e
  Fix export_marks() error handling.
  git repack: keep commits hidden by a graft
  Add a test showing that 'git repack' throws away grafted-away parents
  git branch: clean up detached branch handling
  git branch: avoid unnecessary object lookups
  git branch: fix performance problem
  git svn: fix shallow clone when upstream revision is too new
  do_one_ref(): null_sha1 check is not about broken ref
  configure.ac: properly unset NEEDS_SSL_WITH_CRYPTO when sha1 func is missing
  janitor: useless checks before free
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+GIT v1.5.5.3 Release Notes
+==========================
+
+Fixes since v1.5.5.2
+--------------------
+
+ * "git send-email --compose" did not notice that non-ascii contents
+   needed some MIME magic.
+
+ * "git fast-export" did not export octopus merges correctly.
+
+Also comes with various documentation updates.