[ANNOUNCE] Git v1.8.5.3

[Junio C Hamano]

The latest maintenance release Git v1.8.5.3 is now available at
the usual places, backporting the fixes that happened on the
'master' front.

The release tarballs are found at:

    http://code.google.com/p/git-core/downloads/list

and their SHA-1 checksums are:

767aa30c0f569f9b6e04cb215dfeec0c013c355a  git-1.8.5.3.tar.gz
47da8e2b1d23ae501ee2c03414c04f8225079037  git-htmldocs-1.8.5.3.tar.gz
e4b66ca3ab1b089af651bf742aa030718e9af978  git-manpages-1.8.5.3.tar.gz

The following public repositories all have a copy of the v1.8.5.3
tag and the maint branch that the tag points at:

  url = https://kernel.googlesource.com/pub/scm/git/git
  url = git://repo.or.cz/alt-git.git
  url = https://code.google.com/p/git-core/
  url = git://git.sourceforge.jp/gitroot/git-core/git.git
  url = git://git-core.git.sourceforge.net/gitroot/git-core/git-core
  url = https://github.com/gitster/git

Also, http://www.kernel.org/pub/software/scm/git/ has copies of the
release tarballs.

Git v1.8.5.3 Release Notes
==========================

Fixes since v1.8.5.2
--------------------

 * The "--[no-]informative-errors" options to "git daemon" were parsed
   a bit too loosely, allowing any other string after these option
   names.

 * A "gc" process running as a different user should be able to stop a
   new "gc" process from starting.

 * An earlier "clean-up" introduced an unnecessary memory leak to the
   credential subsystem.

 * "git mv A B/", when B does not exist as a directory, should error
   out, but it didn't.

 * "git rev-parse <revs> -- <paths>" did not implement the usual
   disambiguation rules the commands in the "git log" family used in
   the same way.

 * "git cat-file --batch=", an admittedly useless command, did not
   behave very well.

Also contains typofixes, documentation updates and trivial code clean-ups.

----------------------------------------------------------------

Changes since v1.8.5.2 are as follows:

Jeff King (5):
      rev-parse: correctly diagnose revision errors before "--"
      rev-parse: be more careful with munging arguments
      cat-file: pass expand_data to print_object_or_die
      cat-file: handle --batch format with missing type/size
      Revert "prompt: clean up strbuf usage"

Johannes Sixt (1):
      mv: let 'git mv file no-such-dir/' error out on Windows, too

Junio C Hamano (1):
      Git 1.8.5.3

Kyle J. McKay (1):
      gc: notice gc processes run by other users

Matthieu Moy (1):
      mv: let 'git mv file no-such-dir/' error out

Nguyễn Thái Ngọc Duy (1):
      daemon: be strict at parsing parameters --[no-]informative-errors

Ralf Thielow (1):
      l10n: de.po: fix translation of 'prefix'

Ramkumar Ramachandra (1):
      for-each-ref: remove unused variable

Thomas Ackermann (1):
      pack-heuristics.txt: mark up the file header properly

W. Trevor King (1):
      Documentation/gitmodules: Only 'update' and 'url' are required

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