Merge branch 'maint'

* maint:
  Update draft release notes to 1.7.1.1
  notes: Initialise variable to appease gcc
  notes: check number of parameters to "git notes copy"

Documentation/RelNotes-1.7.1.1.txt

@@ -17,6 +17,13 @@ Fixes since v1.7.1
 
  * We didn't recognize timezone "Z" as a synonym for "UTC" (75b37e70).
 
+ * In 1.7.0, read-tree and user commands that use the mechanism such as
+   checkout and merge were fixed to handle switching between branches one
+   of which has a file while the other has a directory at the same path
+   correctly even when there are some "confusing" pathnames in them.  But
+   the algorithm used for this fix was suboptimal and had a terrible
+   performance degradation especially in larger trees.
+
  * "git am -3" did not show diagnosis when the patch in the message was corrupt.
 
  * After "git apply --whitespace=fix" removed trailing blank lines in an
@@ -57,10 +64,15 @@ Fixes since v1.7.1
  * "git merge --log" used to replace the custom message given by "-m" with
    the shortlog, instead of appending to it.
 
+ * "git notes copy" without any other argument segfaulted.
+
  * "git pull" accepted "--dry-run", gave it to underlying "git fetch" but
    ignored the option itself, resulting in a bogus attempt to merge
    unrelated commit.
 
+ * "git rebase" did not faithfully reproduce a malformed author ident, that
+   is often seen in a repository converted from foreign SCMs.
+
  * "git reset --hard" started from a wrong directory and a working tree in
    a nonstandard location is in use got confused.
 
@@ -68,6 +80,9 @@ Fixes since v1.7.1
    EHLO/HELO exchange, causing rejected connection from picky servers.
    It learned --smtp-domain option to solve this issue.
 
+ * "git send-email" did not declare a content-transfer-encoding and
+   content-type even when its payload needs to be sent in 8-bit.
+
  * "git show -C -C" and other corner cases lost diff metainfo output
    in 1.7.0.
 
@@ -83,6 +98,6 @@ And other minor fixes and documentation updates.
 
 --
 exec >/var/tmp/1
-O=v1.7.1-195-gb2ebbd8
+O=v1.7.1-211-g54fcb21
 echo O=$(git describe HEAD)
 git shortlog --no-merges HEAD ^$O

builtin/notes.c

@@ -614,6 +614,10 @@ static int copy(int argc, const char **argv, const char *prefix)
 		}
 	}
 
+	if (argc < 2) {
+		error("too few parameters");
+		usage_with_options(git_notes_copy_usage, options);
+	}
 	if (2 < argc) {
 		error("too many parameters");
 		usage_with_options(git_notes_copy_usage, options);

notes.c

@@ -716,7 +716,7 @@ static int write_each_non_note_until(const char *note_path,
 		struct write_each_note_data *d)
 {
 	struct non_note *n = d->next_non_note;
-	int cmp, ret;
+	int cmp = 0, ret;
 	while (n && (!note_path || (cmp = strcmp(n->path, note_path)) <= 0)) {
 		if (note_path && cmp == 0)
 			; /* do nothing, prefer note to non-note */

t/t3301-notes.sh

@@ -1044,4 +1044,10 @@ test_expect_success 'GIT_NOTES_REWRITE_REF overrides config' '
 	git log -1 > output &&
 	test_cmp expect output
 '
+
+test_expect_success 'git notes copy diagnoses too many or too few parameters' '
+	test_must_fail git notes copy &&
+	test_must_fail git notes copy one two three
+'
+
 test_done