Merge branch 'maint'

* maint:
  GIT 1.5.6.4
  builtin-rm: fix index lock file path
  http-fetch: do not SEGV after fetching a bad pack idx file
  rev-list: honor --quiet option
  api-run-command.txt: typofix

Documentation/RelNotes-1.5.6.4.txt

@@ -28,16 +28,20 @@ Fixes since v1.5.6.3
    be huge by saying "no common commits", but this was an unnecessary
    noise; it is already known by the user anyway.
 
+* "git-http-fetch" would have segfaulted when pack idx file retrieved
+  from the other side was corrupt.
+
+* "git-index-pack" used too much memory when dealing with a deep delta chain.
+
 * "git-mailinfo" (hence "git-am") did not correctly handle in-body [PATCH]
   line to override the commit title taken from the mail Subject header.
 
 * "git-rebase -i -p" lost parents that are not involved in the history
   being rewritten.
 
-Contains other various documentation fixes.
+* "git-rm" lost track of where the index file was when GIT_DIR was
+  specified as a relative path.
 
---
-exec >/var/tmp/1
-echo O=$(git describe maint)
-O=v1.5.6.3-21-gebcce31
-git shortlog --no-merges $O..maint
+* "git-rev-list --quiet" was not quiet as advertised.
+
+Contains other various documentation fixes.

Documentation/technical/api-run-command.txt

@@ -30,7 +30,7 @@ Functions
 	start_command() followed by finish_command(). Takes a pointer
 	to a `struct child_process` that specifies the details.
 
-`run_command_v_opt`, `run_command_v_opt_dir`, `run_command_v_opt_cd_env`::
+`run_command_v_opt`, `run_command_v_opt_cd`, `run_command_v_opt_cd_env`::
 
 	Convenience functions that encapsulate a sequence of
 	start_command() followed by finish_command(). The argument argv

builtin-rev-list.c

@@ -590,6 +590,7 @@ int cmd_rev_list(int argc, const char **argv, const char *prefix)
 	revs.commit_format = CMIT_FMT_UNSPECIFIED;
 	argc = setup_revisions(argc, argv, &revs, NULL);
 
+	quiet = DIFF_OPT_TST(&revs.diffopt, QUIET);
 	for (i = 1 ; i < argc; i++) {
 		const char *arg = argv[i];
 
@@ -621,10 +622,6 @@ int cmd_rev_list(int argc, const char **argv, const char *prefix)
 			read_revisions_from_stdin(&revs);
 			continue;
 		}
-		if (!strcmp(arg, "--quiet")) {
-			quiet = 1;
-			continue;
-		}
 		usage(rev_list_usage);
 
 	}

builtin-rm.c

@@ -146,11 +146,6 @@ int cmd_rm(int argc, const char **argv, const char *prefix)
 
 	git_config(git_default_config, NULL);
 
-	newfd = hold_locked_index(&lock_file, 1);
-
-	if (read_cache() < 0)
-		die("index file corrupt");
-
 	argc = parse_options(argc, argv, builtin_rm_options, builtin_rm_usage, 0);
 	if (!argc)
 		usage_with_options(builtin_rm_usage, builtin_rm_options);
@@ -158,6 +153,11 @@ int cmd_rm(int argc, const char **argv, const char *prefix)
 	if (!index_only)
 		setup_work_tree();
 
+	newfd = hold_locked_index(&lock_file, 1);
+
+	if (read_cache() < 0)
+		die("index file corrupt");
+
 	pathspec = get_pathspec(prefix, argv);
 	seen = NULL;
 	for (i = 0; pathspec[i] ; i++)

http-walker.c

@@ -442,6 +442,8 @@ static int setup_index(struct walker *walker, struct alt_base *repo, unsigned ch
 		return -1;
 
 	new_pack = parse_pack_index(sha1);
+	if (!new_pack)
+		return -1; /* parse_pack_index() already issued error message */
 	new_pack->next = repo->packs;
 	repo->packs = new_pack;
 	return 0;

t/t3600-rm.sh

@@ -217,4 +217,16 @@ test_expect_success 'Remove nonexistent file returns nonzero exit status' '
 	test_must_fail git rm nonexistent
 '
 
+test_expect_success 'Call "rm" from outside the work tree' '
+	mkdir repo &&
+	cd repo &&
+	git init &&
+	echo something > somefile &&
+	git add somefile &&
+	git commit -m "add a file" &&
+	(cd .. &&
+	 git --git-dir=repo/.git --work-tree=repo rm somefile) &&
+	test_must_fail git ls-files --error-unmatch somefile
+'
+
 test_done