diff --git a/.gitignore b/.gitignore
index be9ea5fa9..cc2b29ebf 100644
--- a/.gitignore
+++ b/.gitignore
@@ -31,6 +31,7 @@ git-fetch-pack
 git-format-patch
 git-fsck-objects
 git-get-tar-commit-id
+git-grep
 git-hash-object
 git-http-fetch
 git-init-db
diff --git a/Documentation/git-grep.txt b/Documentation/git-grep.txt
new file mode 100644
index 000000000..c275ae26f
--- /dev/null
+++ b/Documentation/git-grep.txt
@@ -0,0 +1,47 @@
+git-grep(1)
+===========
+v0.99.6, Sep 2005
+
+NAME
+----
+git-grep - print lines matching a pattern
+
+
+SYNOPSIS
+--------
+'git-grep' <option>... <pattern> <path>...
+
+DESCRIPTION
+-----------
+Searches list of files `git-ls-files` produces for lines
+containing a match to the given pattern.
+
+
+OPTIONS
+-------
+<option>...::
+	Either an option to pass to `grep` or `git-ls-files`.
+	Some `grep` options, such as `-C` and `-m`, that take
+	parameters are known to `git-grep`.
+
+<pattern>::
+	The pattern to look for.
+
+<path>...::
+
+	Optional paths to limit the set of files to be searched;
+	passed to `git-ls-files`.
+
+
+Author
+------
+Written by Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
+
+Documentation
+--------------
+Documentation by Junio C Hamano and the git-list <git@vger.kernel.org>.
+
+GIT
+---
+Part of the link:git.html[git] suite
+
diff --git a/Documentation/git.txt b/Documentation/git.txt
index aabc77496..31dd4749e 100644
--- a/Documentation/git.txt
+++ b/Documentation/git.txt
@@ -1,6 +1,6 @@
 git(7)
 ======
-v0.99.5, Aug 2005
+v0.99.6, Sep 2005
 
 NAME
 ----
@@ -238,7 +238,7 @@ link:git-commit.html[git-commit]::
 	Previously this command was known as git-commit-script.
 
 link:git-diff.html[git-diff]::
-	git-diff.
+	Show changes between commits, commit and working tree, etc.
 	Previously this command was known as git-diff-script.
 
 link:git-fetch.html[git-fetch]::
@@ -246,9 +246,12 @@ link:git-fetch.html[git-fetch]::
 	Previously this command was known as git-fetch-script.
 
 link:git-format-patch.html[git-format-patch]::
-	git-format-patch.
+	Prepare patches for e-mail submission.
 	Previously this command was known as git-format-patch-script.
 
+link:git-grep.html[git-grep]::
+	Print lines matching a pattern
+
 link:git-log.html[git-log]::
 	Shows commit logs.
 	Previously this command was known as git-log-script.
diff --git a/INSTALL b/INSTALL
index 14580cc47..6e336d7c2 100644
--- a/INSTALL
+++ b/INSTALL
@@ -64,3 +64,8 @@ Issues of note:
 	  You'll only need the merge program if you do development using
 	  git, and if you only use git to track other peoples work you'll
 	  never notice the lack of it. 
+
+        - "wish", the TCL/Tk windowing shell is used in gitk to show the
+          history graphically
+
+	- "ssh" is used to push and pull over the net
diff --git a/Makefile b/Makefile
index 3f699864e..e2bbcb590 100644
--- a/Makefile
+++ b/Makefile
@@ -76,7 +76,7 @@ SCRIPT_SH = \
 	git-tag.sh git-verify-tag.sh git-whatchanged.sh git.sh \
 	git-applymbox.sh git-applypatch.sh \
 	git-merge.sh git-merge-stupid.sh git-merge-octopus.sh \
-	git-merge-resolve.sh
+	git-merge-resolve.sh git-grep.sh
 
 SCRIPT_PERL = \
 	git-archimport.perl git-cvsimport.perl git-relink.perl \
diff --git a/cache.h b/cache.h
index dcfcbbc7c..1d99d6817 100644
--- a/cache.h
+++ b/cache.h
@@ -50,6 +50,17 @@
  *	Your search - "port 9418" - did not match any documents.
  *
  * as www.google.com puts it.
+ *
+ * This port has been properly assigned for git use by IANA:
+ * git (Assigned-9418) [I06-050728-0001].
+ *
+ *	git  9418/tcp   git pack transfer service
+ *	git  9418/udp   git pack transfer service
+ *
+ * with Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org> as the point of
+ * contact. September 2005.
+ *
+ * See http://www.iana.org/assignments/port-numbers
  */
 #define DEFAULT_GIT_PORT 9418
 
diff --git a/git-checkout.sh b/git-checkout.sh
index 4e7c57a5f..4a605cd9c 100755
--- a/git-checkout.sh
+++ b/git-checkout.sh
@@ -55,6 +55,7 @@ then
     git-read-tree --reset $new &&
 	git-checkout-index -q -f -u -a
 else
+    git-update-index --refresh >/dev/null
     git-read-tree -m -u $old $new
 fi
 
diff --git a/git-core.spec.in b/git-core.spec.in
index b78a46802..f98f8db7c 100644
--- a/git-core.spec.in
+++ b/git-core.spec.in
@@ -10,7 +10,7 @@ URL: 		http://kernel.org/pub/software/scm/git/
 Source: 	http://kernel.org/pub/software/scm/git/%{name}-%{version}.tar.gz
 BuildRequires:	zlib-devel, openssl-devel, curl-devel  %{!?_without_docs:, xmlto, asciidoc > 6.0.3}
 BuildRoot:	%{_tmppath}/%{name}-%{version}-root
-Requires: 	sh-utils, diffutils, rsync, rcs, python >= 2.4
+Requires: 	sh-utils, curl, diffutils, rsync, rcs, openssh-clients, perl, python >= 2.4, tk
 
 %description
 This is a stupid (but extremely fast) directory content manager.  It
@@ -40,10 +40,14 @@ rm -rf $RPM_BUILD_ROOT
 %{_datadir}/git-core/templates/*
 %doc README COPYING Documentation/*.txt
 %{!?_without_docs: %doc Documentation/*.html }
-%{!?_without_docs: %{_mandir}/man1/*.1.gz}
-%{!?_without_docs: %{_mandir}/man7/*.7.gz}
+%{!?_without_docs: %{_mandir}/man1/*.1*}
+%{!?_without_docs: %{_mandir}/man7/*.7*}
 
 %changelog
+* Sun Sep 11 2005 Horst H. von Brand <vonbrand@inf.utfsm.cl>
+- Updated dependencies
+- Don't assume manpages are gzipped
+
 * Sun Aug 07 2005 Horst H. von Brand <vonbrand@inf.utfsm.cl>
 - Redid the description
 - Cut overlong make line, loosened changelog a bit
diff --git a/git-format-patch.sh b/git-format-patch.sh
index cfba1deb2..525a2f221 100755
--- a/git-format-patch.sh
+++ b/git-format-patch.sh
@@ -27,8 +27,6 @@ with applymbox.
 }
 
 diff_opts=
-IFS='
-'
 LF='
 '
 
@@ -61,7 +59,10 @@ do
     --output-directo|--output-director|--output-directory)
     case "$#" in 1) usage ;; esac; shift
     outdir="$1" ;;
-    -*)	diff_opts="$diff_opts$LF$1" ;;
+    -*' '* | -*"$LF"* | -*'	'*)
+	# Ignore diff option that has whitespace for now.
+	;;
+    -*)	diff_opts="$diff_opts$1 " ;;
     *) break ;;
     esac
     shift
@@ -72,16 +73,20 @@ tt)
 	die '--keep-subject and --numbered are incompatible.' ;;
 esac
 
-revpair=
+rev1= rev2=
 case "$#" in
 2)
-    revpair="$1..$2" ;;
+    rev1="$1" rev2="$2" ;;
 1)
     case "$1" in
     *..*)
-    	revpair="$1";;
+	rev1=`expr "$1" : '\(.*\)\.\.'`
+	rev2=`expr "$1" : '.*\.\.\(.*\)'`
+	;;
     *)
-	revpair="$1..HEAD";;
+        rev1="$1"
+	rev2="HEAD"
+	;;
     esac ;;
 *)
     usage ;;
@@ -127,10 +132,21 @@ _x40='[0-9a-f][0-9a-f][0-9a-f][0-9a-f][0-9a-f]'
 _x40="$_x40$_x40$_x40$_x40$_x40$_x40$_x40$_x40"
 stripCommitHead='/^'"$_x40"' (from '"$_x40"')$/d'
 
-git-rev-list --no-merges --merge-order \
-	$(git-rev-parse --revs-only "$revpair") >$series
+git-cherry -v "$rev1" "$rev2" |
+while read sign rev comment
+do
+	case "$sign" in
+	'-')
+		echo >&2 "Merged already: $comment"
+		;;
+	*)
+		echo $rev
+		;;
+	esac
+done >$series
+
 total=`wc -l <$series | tr -dc "[0-9]"`
-i=$total
+i=1
 while read commit
 do
     git-cat-file commit "$commit" | git-stripspace >$commsg
@@ -145,7 +161,7 @@ do
     esac
 
     file=`printf '%04d-%stxt' $i "$title"`
-    i=`expr "$i" - 1`
+    i=`expr "$i" + 1`
     echo "* $file"
     {
 	mailScript='
diff --git a/git-grep.sh b/git-grep.sh
new file mode 100755
index 000000000..51924fd7c
--- /dev/null
+++ b/git-grep.sh
@@ -0,0 +1,43 @@
+#!/bin/sh
+#
+# Copyright (c) Linus Torvalds, 2005
+#
+
+pattern=
+flags=()
+git_flags=()
+while : ; do
+	case "$1" in
+	--cached|--deleted|--others|--killed|\
+	--ignored|--exclude=*|\
+	--exclude-from=*|\--exclude-per-directory=*)
+		git_flags=("${git_flags[@]}" "$1")
+		;;
+	-e)
+		pattern="$2"
+		shift
+		;;
+	-A|-B|-C|-D|-d|-f|-m)
+		flags=("${flags[@]}" "$1" "$2")
+		shift
+		;;
+	--)
+		# The rest are git-ls-files paths (or flags)
+		shift
+		break
+		;;
+	-*)
+		flags=("${flags[@]}" "$1")
+		;;
+	*)
+		if [ -z "$pattern" ]; then
+			pattern="$1"
+			shift
+		fi
+		break
+		;;
+	esac
+	shift
+done
+git-ls-files -z "${git_flags[@]}" "$@" |
+	xargs -0 grep "${flags[@]}" "$pattern"
diff --git a/git-merge-fredrik.py b/git-merge-fredrik.py
index 920e10ffb..27b84867b 100755
--- a/git-merge-fredrik.py
+++ b/git-merge-fredrik.py
@@ -1,6 +1,6 @@
 #!/usr/bin/python
 
-import sys, math, random, os, re, signal, tempfile, stat, errno
+import sys, math, random, os, re, signal, tempfile, stat, errno, traceback
 from heapq import heappush, heappop
 from sets import Set
 
@@ -60,7 +60,7 @@ def infoMsg(*args):
                                  branch1Name, branch2Name,
                                  cleanCache, updateWd)
 
-    if clean or alwaysWriteTree:
+    if clean or cleanCache:
         res = Commit(None, [h1, h2], tree=shaRes)
         graph.addNode(res)
     else:
@@ -120,9 +120,8 @@ def unmergedCacheEntries():
             e.stages[stage].mode = mode
             e.stages[stage].sha1 = sha1
         else:
-            print 'Error: Merge program failed: Unexpected output from', \
-                  'git-ls-files:', l
-            sys.exit(2)
+            die('Error: Merge program failed: Unexpected output from', \
+                'git-ls-files:', l)
     return res
 
 def mergeTrees(head, merge, common, branch1Name, branch2Name,
@@ -381,26 +380,25 @@ def uniquePath(path, branch):
         os.unlink(src1)
         os.unlink(src2)
     else:
-        print 'ERROR: Fatal merge failure.'
-        print "ERROR: Shouldn't happen"
-        sys.exit(2)
+        die("ERROR: Fatal merge failure, shouldn't happen.")
 
     return cleanMerge
 
 def usage():
-    print 'Usage:', sys.argv[0], ' <base>... -- <head> <remote>..'
-    sys.exit(2)
+    die('Usage:', sys.argv[0], ' <base>... -- <head> <remote>..')
 
 # main entry point as merge strategy module
 # The first parameters up to -- are merge bases, and the rest are heads.
 # This strategy module figures out merge bases itself, so we only
 # get heads.
 
+if len(sys.argv) < 4:
+    usage()
+
 for nextArg in xrange(1, len(sys.argv)):
     if sys.argv[nextArg] == '--':
         if len(sys.argv) != nextArg + 3:
-            print 'Not handling anything other than two heads merge.'
-            sys.exit(2)
+            die('Not handling anything other than two heads merge.')
         try:
             h1 = firstBranch = sys.argv[nextArg + 1]
             h2 = secondBranch = sys.argv[nextArg + 2]
@@ -409,15 +407,20 @@ def usage():
         break
 
 print 'Merging', h1, 'with', h2
-h1 = runProgram(['git-rev-parse', '--verify', h1 + '^0']).rstrip()
-h2 = runProgram(['git-rev-parse', '--verify', h2 + '^0']).rstrip()
 
-graph = buildGraph([h1, h2])
+try:
+    h1 = runProgram(['git-rev-parse', '--verify', h1 + '^0']).rstrip()
+    h2 = runProgram(['git-rev-parse', '--verify', h2 + '^0']).rstrip()
 
-[res, clean] = merge(graph.shaMap[h1], graph.shaMap[h2],
-                     firstBranch, secondBranch, graph)
+    graph = buildGraph([h1, h2])
 
-print ''
+    [res, clean] = merge(graph.shaMap[h1], graph.shaMap[h2],
+                         firstBranch, secondBranch, graph)
+
+    print ''
+except:
+    traceback.print_exc(None, sys.stderr)
+    sys.exit(2)
 
 if clean:
     sys.exit(0)
diff --git a/gitMergeCommon.py b/gitMergeCommon.py
index dfa49ff7e..ce9694b15 100644
--- a/gitMergeCommon.py
+++ b/gitMergeCommon.py
@@ -10,6 +10,10 @@
 
 import subprocess
 
+def die(*args):
+    printList(args, sys.stderr)
+    sys.exit(2)
+
 # Debugging machinery
 # -------------------
 
@@ -28,11 +32,11 @@ def debug(*args):
         if funcName in functionsToDebug:
             printList(args)
 
-def printList(list):
+def printList(list, file=sys.stdout):
     for x in list:
-        sys.stdout.write(str(x))
-        sys.stdout.write(' ')
-    sys.stdout.write('\n')
+        file.write(str(x))
+        file.write(' ')
+    file.write('\n')
 
 # Program execution
 # -----------------
@@ -42,6 +46,9 @@ def __init__(self, progStr, error):
         self.progStr = progStr
         self.error = error
 
+    def __str__(self):
+        return self.progStr + ': ' + self.error
+
 addDebug('runProgram')
 def runProgram(prog, input=None, returnCode=False, env=None, pipeOutput=True):
     debug('runProgram prog:', str(prog), 'input:', str(input))