Merge remote-tracking branch 'ko/maint' into jc/diff-index-quick-exit-early

* ko/maint: (4352 commits)
  git-submodule.sh: separate parens by a space to avoid confusing some shells
  Documentation/technical/api-diff.txt: correct name of diff_unmerge()
  read_gitfile_gently: use ssize_t to hold read result
  remove tests of always-false condition
  rerere.c: diagnose a corrupt MERGE_RR when hitting EOF between TAB and '\0'
  Git 1.7.5.3
  init/clone: remove short option -L and document --separate-git-dir
  do not read beyond end of malloc'd buffer
  git-svn: Fix git svn log --show-commit
  Git 1.7.5.2
  provide a copy of the LGPLv2.1
  test core.gitproxy configuration
  copy_gecos: fix not adding nlen to len when processing "&"
  Update draft release notes to 1.7.5.2
  Documentation/git-fsck.txt: fix typo: unreadable -> unreachable
  send-pack: avoid deadlock on git:// push with failed pack-objects
  connect: let callers know if connection is a socket
  connect: treat generic proxy processes like ssh processes
  sideband_demux(): fix decl-after-stmt
  t3503: test cherry picking and reverting root commits
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+GIT v1.6.2.4 Release Notes
+==========================
+
+Fixes since v1.6.2.3
+--------------------
+
+* The configuration parser had a buffer overflow while parsing an overlong
+  value.
+
+* pruning reflog entries that are unreachable from the tip of the ref
+  during "git reflog prune" (hence "git gc") was very inefficient.
+
+* "git-add -p" lacked a way to say "q"uit to refuse staging any hunks for
+  the remaining paths.  You had to say "d" and then ^C.
+
+* "git-checkout <tree-ish> <submodule>" did not update the index entry at
+  the named path; it now does.
+
+* "git-fast-export" choked when seeing a tag that does not point at commit.
+
+* "git init" segfaulted when given an overlong template location via
+  the --template= option.
+
+* "git-ls-tree" and "git-diff-tree" used a pathspec correctly when
+  deciding to descend into a subdirectory but they did not match the
+  individual paths correctly.  This caused pathspecs "abc/d ab" to match
+  "abc/0" ("abc/d" made them decide to descend into the directory "abc/",
+  and then "ab" incorrectly matched "abc/0" when it shouldn't).
+
+* "git-merge-recursive" was broken when a submodule entry was involved in
+  a criss-cross merge situation.
+
+Many small documentation updates are included as well.
+
+---
+exec >/var/tmp/1
+echo O=$(git describe maint)
+O=v1.6.2.3-38-g318b847
+git shortlog --no-merges $O..maint