diff --git a/Documentation/RelNotes/1.7.4.txt b/Documentation/RelNotes/1.7.4.txt
index 87a60fe..d5bca73 100644
--- a/Documentation/RelNotes/1.7.4.txt
+++ b/Documentation/RelNotes/1.7.4.txt
@@ -1,5 +1,5 @@
-Git v1.7.4 Release Notes (draft)
-================================
+Git v1.7.4 Release Notes
+========================
 
 Updates since v1.7.3
 --------------------
@@ -146,6 +146,9 @@
 
  * "git push --progress" shows progress indicators now.
 
+ * "git rebase -i" showed a confusing error message when given a
+   branch name that does not exist.
+
  * "git repack" places its temporary packs under $GIT_OBJECT_DIRECTORY/pack
    instead of $GIT_OBJECT_DIRECTORY/ to avoid cross directory renames.
 
diff --git a/Documentation/fetch-options.txt b/Documentation/fetch-options.txt
index 695696d..f37276e 100644
--- a/Documentation/fetch-options.txt
+++ b/Documentation/fetch-options.txt
@@ -64,13 +64,11 @@
 	downloaded. The default behavior for a remote may be
 	specified with the remote.<name>.tagopt setting. See
 	linkgit:git-config[1].
-endif::git-pull[]
 
 --[no-]recurse-submodules::
 	This option controls if new commits of all populated submodules should
 	be fetched too (see linkgit:git-config[1] and linkgit:gitmodules[5]).
 
-ifndef::git-pull[]
 --submodule-prefix=<path>::
 	Prepend <path> to paths printed in informative messages
 	such as "Fetching submodule foo".  This option is used
diff --git a/Documentation/git-diff.txt b/Documentation/git-diff.txt
index f6ac847..4910510 100644
--- a/Documentation/git-diff.txt
+++ b/Documentation/git-diff.txt
@@ -38,6 +38,8 @@
 	commit relative to the named <commit>.  Typically you
 	would want comparison with the latest commit, so if you
 	do not give <commit>, it defaults to HEAD.
+	If HEAD does not exist (e.g. unborned branches) and
+	<commit> is not given, it shows all staged changes.
 	--staged is a synonym of --cached.
 
 'git diff' [--options] <commit> [--] [<path>...]::
diff --git a/Documentation/git-fast-import.txt b/Documentation/git-fast-import.txt
index 4415e63..02bb498 100644
--- a/Documentation/git-fast-import.txt
+++ b/Documentation/git-fast-import.txt
@@ -948,6 +948,13 @@
 	rather than wasting time on the early part of an import
 	before the unsupported command is detected.
 
+notes::
+	Require that the backend support the 'notemodify' (N)
+	subcommand to the 'commit' command.
+	Versions of fast-import not supporting notes will exit
+	with a message indicating so.
+
+
 `option`
 ~~~~~~~~
 Processes the specified option so that git fast-import behaves in a
diff --git a/Documentation/git-pull.txt b/Documentation/git-pull.txt
index 3046691..b33e6be 100644
--- a/Documentation/git-pull.txt
+++ b/Documentation/git-pull.txt
@@ -84,6 +84,15 @@
 --verbose::
 	Pass --verbose to git-fetch and git-merge.
 
+--[no-]recurse-submodules::
+	This option controls if new commits of all populated submodules should
+	be fetched too (see linkgit:git-config[1] and linkgit:gitmodules[5]).
+	That might be necessary to get the data needed for merging submodule
+	commits, a feature git learned in 1.7.3. Notice that the result of a
+	merge will not be checked out in the submodule, "git submodule update"
+	has to be called afterwards to bring the work tree up to date with the
+	merge result.
+
 Options related to merging
 ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
 
diff --git a/Documentation/git.txt b/Documentation/git.txt
index 0dac7aa..e968ed4 100644
--- a/Documentation/git.txt
+++ b/Documentation/git.txt
@@ -44,6 +44,11 @@
 branch of the `git.git` repository.
 Documentation for older releases are available here:
 
+* link:v1.7.4/git.html[documentation for release 1.7.4]
+
+* release notes for
+  link:RelNotes/1.7.4.txt[1.7.4].
+
 * link:v1.7.3.5/git.html[documentation for release 1.7.3.5]
 
 * release notes for
diff --git a/Documentation/howto/using-merge-subtree.txt b/Documentation/howto/using-merge-subtree.txt
index 0953a50..2933056 100644
--- a/Documentation/howto/using-merge-subtree.txt
+++ b/Documentation/howto/using-merge-subtree.txt
@@ -71,5 +71,5 @@
   relevant parts of your tree.
 
 - Please note that if the other project merges from you, then it will
-  connects its history to yours, which can be something they don't want
+  connect its history to yours, which can be something they don't want
   to.
diff --git a/GIT-VERSION-GEN b/GIT-VERSION-GEN
index ccfc298..92fe7a5 100755
--- a/GIT-VERSION-GEN
+++ b/GIT-VERSION-GEN
@@ -1,7 +1,7 @@
 #!/bin/sh
 
 GVF=GIT-VERSION-FILE
-DEF_VER=v1.7.4-rc2
+DEF_VER=v1.7.4
 
 LF='
 '
diff --git a/builtin/clone.c b/builtin/clone.c
index 61e0989..82a6938 100644
--- a/builtin/clone.c
+++ b/builtin/clone.c
@@ -66,7 +66,7 @@
 		    "setup as shared repository"),
 	OPT_BOOLEAN(0, "recursive", &option_recursive,
 		    "initialize submodules in the clone"),
-	OPT_BOOLEAN(0, "recurse_submodules", &option_recursive,
+	OPT_BOOLEAN(0, "recurse-submodules", &option_recursive,
 		    "initialize submodules in the clone"),
 	OPT_STRING(0, "template", &option_template, "path",
 		   "path the template repository"),
diff --git a/builtin/diff.c b/builtin/diff.c
index 945e758..42822cd 100644
--- a/builtin/diff.c
+++ b/builtin/diff.c
@@ -330,8 +330,11 @@
 			else if (!strcmp(arg, "--cached") ||
 				 !strcmp(arg, "--staged")) {
 				add_head_to_pending(&rev);
-				if (!rev.pending.nr)
-					die("No HEAD commit to compare with (yet)");
+				if (!rev.pending.nr) {
+					struct tree *tree;
+					tree = lookup_tree((const unsigned char*)EMPTY_TREE_SHA1_BIN);
+					add_pending_object(&rev, &tree->object, "HEAD");
+				}
 				break;
 			}
 		}
diff --git a/bundle.c b/bundle.c
index 65ea26b..f48fd7d 100644
--- a/bundle.c
+++ b/bundle.c
@@ -200,7 +200,7 @@
 	int bundle_fd = -1;
 	int bundle_to_stdout;
 	const char **argv_boundary = xmalloc((argc + 4) * sizeof(const char *));
-	const char **argv_pack = xmalloc(5 * sizeof(const char *));
+	const char **argv_pack = xmalloc(6 * sizeof(const char *));
 	int i, ref_count = 0;
 	char buffer[1024];
 	struct rev_info revs;
@@ -346,7 +346,8 @@
 	argv_pack[1] = "--all-progress-implied";
 	argv_pack[2] = "--stdout";
 	argv_pack[3] = "--thin";
-	argv_pack[4] = NULL;
+	argv_pack[4] = "--delta-base-offset";
+	argv_pack[5] = NULL;
 	memset(&rls, 0, sizeof(rls));
 	rls.argv = argv_pack;
 	rls.in = -1;
diff --git a/commit.c b/commit.c
index 74d6601..ac337c7 100644
--- a/commit.c
+++ b/commit.c
@@ -245,10 +245,10 @@
 	return 0;
 }
 
-int parse_commit_buffer(struct commit *item, void *buffer, unsigned long size)
+int parse_commit_buffer(struct commit *item, const void *buffer, unsigned long size)
 {
-	char *tail = buffer;
-	char *bufptr = buffer;
+	const char *tail = buffer;
+	const char *bufptr = buffer;
 	unsigned char parent[20];
 	struct commit_list **pptr;
 	struct commit_graft *graft;
diff --git a/commit.h b/commit.h
index eb6c5af..659c87c 100644
--- a/commit.h
+++ b/commit.h
@@ -38,7 +38,7 @@
 					      int quiet);
 struct commit *lookup_commit_reference_by_name(const char *name);
 
-int parse_commit_buffer(struct commit *item, void *buffer, unsigned long size);
+int parse_commit_buffer(struct commit *item, const void *buffer, unsigned long size);
 int parse_commit(struct commit *item);
 
 /* Find beginning and length of commit subject. */
diff --git a/contrib/hooks/post-receive-email b/contrib/hooks/post-receive-email
index f99ea95..21989fc 100755
--- a/contrib/hooks/post-receive-email
+++ b/contrib/hooks/post-receive-email
@@ -709,7 +709,7 @@
 	exit 1
 fi
 
-projectdesc=$(sed -ne '1p' "$GIT_DIR/description")
+projectdesc=$(sed -ne '1p' "$GIT_DIR/description" 2>/dev/null)
 # Check if the description is unchanged from it's default, and shorten it to
 # a more manageable length if it is
 if expr "$projectdesc" : "Unnamed repository.*$" >/dev/null
diff --git a/contrib/svn-fe/svn-fe.txt b/contrib/svn-fe/svn-fe.txt
index 35f84bd..cd075b9 100644
--- a/contrib/svn-fe/svn-fe.txt
+++ b/contrib/svn-fe/svn-fe.txt
@@ -18,6 +18,9 @@
 repositories can be mirrored on local disk using the `svnsync`
 command.
 
+Note: this tool is very young.  The details of its commandline
+interface may change in backward incompatible ways.
+
 INPUT FORMAT
 ------------
 Subversion's repository dump format is documented in full in
diff --git a/fast-import.c b/fast-import.c
index 60f26fe..970d847 100644
--- a/fast-import.c
+++ b/fast-import.c
@@ -2991,6 +2991,8 @@
 		relative_marks_paths = 0;
 	} else if (!prefixcmp(feature, "force")) {
 		force_update = 1;
+	} else if (!strcmp(feature, "notes")) {
+		; /* do nothing; we have the feature */
 	} else {
 		return 0;
 	}
diff --git a/git-compat-util.h b/git-compat-util.h
index d6d269f..9c23622 100644
--- a/git-compat-util.h
+++ b/git-compat-util.h
@@ -31,6 +31,9 @@
 #define maximum_signed_value_of_type(a) \
     (INTMAX_MAX >> (bitsizeof(intmax_t) - bitsizeof(a)))
 
+#define maximum_unsigned_value_of_type(a) \
+    (UINTMAX_MAX >> (bitsizeof(uintmax_t) - bitsizeof(a)))
+
 /*
  * Signed integer overflow is undefined in C, so here's a helper macro
  * to detect if the sum of two integers will overflow.
@@ -40,6 +43,9 @@
 #define signed_add_overflows(a, b) \
     ((b) > maximum_signed_value_of_type(a) - (a))
 
+#define unsigned_add_overflows(a, b) \
+    ((b) > maximum_unsigned_value_of_type(a) - (a))
+
 #ifdef __GNUC__
 #define TYPEOF(x) (__typeof__(x))
 #else
diff --git a/gitweb/INSTALL b/gitweb/INSTALL
index 8230531..4964a67 100644
--- a/gitweb/INSTALL
+++ b/gitweb/INSTALL
@@ -237,6 +237,12 @@
  - Perl modules: CGI, Encode, Fcntl, File::Find, File::Basename.
  - web server
 
+The following optional Perl modules are required for extra features
+ - Digest::MD5 - for gravatar support
+ - CGI::Fast and FCGI - for running gitweb as FastCGI script
+ - HTML::TagCloud - for fancy tag cloud in project list view
+ - HTTP::Date or Time::ParseDate - to support If-Modified-Since for feeds
+
 
 Example web server configuration
 ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
diff --git a/patch-delta.c b/patch-delta.c
index d218faa..56e0a5e 100644
--- a/patch-delta.c
+++ b/patch-delta.c
@@ -48,7 +48,7 @@
 			if (cmd & 0x20) cp_size |= (*data++ << 8);
 			if (cmd & 0x40) cp_size |= (*data++ << 16);
 			if (cp_size == 0) cp_size = 0x10000;
-			if (cp_off + cp_size < cp_size ||
+			if (unsigned_add_overflows(cp_off, cp_size) ||
 			    cp_off + cp_size > src_size ||
 			    cp_size > size)
 				break;
diff --git a/quote.h b/quote.h
index 38003bf..024e21d 100644
--- a/quote.h
+++ b/quote.h
@@ -1,8 +1,7 @@
 #ifndef QUOTE_H
 #define QUOTE_H
 
-#include <stddef.h>
-#include <stdio.h>
+struct strbuf;
 
 /* Help to copy the thing properly quoted for the shell safety.
  * any single quote is replaced with '\'', any exclamation point
diff --git a/run-command.c b/run-command.c
index 2a1041e..f91e446 100644
--- a/run-command.c
+++ b/run-command.c
@@ -194,6 +194,7 @@
 	}
 
 	trace_argv_printf(cmd->argv, "trace: run_command:");
+	fflush(NULL);
 
 #ifndef WIN32
 {
@@ -201,7 +202,6 @@
 	if (pipe(notify_pipe))
 		notify_pipe[0] = notify_pipe[1] = -1;
 
-	fflush(NULL);
 	cmd->pid = fork();
 	if (!cmd->pid) {
 		/*
diff --git a/sha1_file.c b/sha1_file.c
index d86a8db..0b830c8 100644
--- a/sha1_file.c
+++ b/sha1_file.c
@@ -37,6 +37,41 @@
 
 static int git_open_noatime(const char *name, struct packed_git *p);
 
+/*
+ * This is meant to hold a *small* number of objects that you would
+ * want read_sha1_file() to be able to return, but yet you do not want
+ * to write them into the object store (e.g. a browse-only
+ * application).
+ */
+static struct cached_object {
+	unsigned char sha1[20];
+	enum object_type type;
+	void *buf;
+	unsigned long size;
+} *cached_objects;
+static int cached_object_nr, cached_object_alloc;
+
+static struct cached_object empty_tree = {
+	EMPTY_TREE_SHA1_BIN,
+	OBJ_TREE,
+	"",
+	0
+};
+
+static struct cached_object *find_cached_object(const unsigned char *sha1)
+{
+	int i;
+	struct cached_object *co = cached_objects;
+
+	for (i = 0; i < cached_object_nr; i++, co++) {
+		if (!hashcmp(co->sha1, sha1))
+			return co;
+	}
+	if (!hashcmp(sha1, empty_tree.sha1))
+		return &empty_tree;
+	return NULL;
+}
+
 int safe_create_leading_directories(char *path)
 {
 	char *pos = path + offset_1st_component(path);
@@ -1985,9 +2020,17 @@
 
 int sha1_object_info(const unsigned char *sha1, unsigned long *sizep)
 {
+	struct cached_object *co;
 	struct pack_entry e;
 	int status;
 
+	co = find_cached_object(sha1);
+	if (co) {
+		if (sizep)
+			*sizep = co->size;
+		return co->type;
+	}
+
 	if (!find_pack_entry(sha1, &e)) {
 		/* Most likely it's a loose object. */
 		status = sha1_loose_object_info(sha1, sizep);
@@ -2033,41 +2076,6 @@
 	return data;
 }
 
-/*
- * This is meant to hold a *small* number of objects that you would
- * want read_sha1_file() to be able to return, but yet you do not want
- * to write them into the object store (e.g. a browse-only
- * application).
- */
-static struct cached_object {
-	unsigned char sha1[20];
-	enum object_type type;
-	void *buf;
-	unsigned long size;
-} *cached_objects;
-static int cached_object_nr, cached_object_alloc;
-
-static struct cached_object empty_tree = {
-	EMPTY_TREE_SHA1_BIN,
-	OBJ_TREE,
-	"",
-	0
-};
-
-static struct cached_object *find_cached_object(const unsigned char *sha1)
-{
-	int i;
-	struct cached_object *co = cached_objects;
-
-	for (i = 0; i < cached_object_nr; i++, co++) {
-		if (!hashcmp(co->sha1, sha1))
-			return co;
-	}
-	if (!hashcmp(sha1, empty_tree.sha1))
-		return &empty_tree;
-	return NULL;
-}
-
 int pretend_sha1_file(void *buf, unsigned long len, enum object_type type,
 		      unsigned char *sha1)
 {
diff --git a/strbuf.c b/strbuf.c
index 9b3c445..07e8883 100644
--- a/strbuf.c
+++ b/strbuf.c
@@ -63,7 +63,8 @@
 
 void strbuf_grow(struct strbuf *sb, size_t extra)
 {
-	if (sb->len + extra + 1 <= sb->len)
+	if (unsigned_add_overflows(extra, 1) ||
+	    unsigned_add_overflows(sb->len, extra + 1))
 		die("you want to use way too much memory");
 	if (!sb->alloc)
 		sb->buf = NULL;
@@ -152,7 +153,7 @@
 void strbuf_splice(struct strbuf *sb, size_t pos, size_t len,
 				   const void *data, size_t dlen)
 {
-	if (pos + len < pos)
+	if (unsigned_add_overflows(pos, len))
 		die("you want to use way too much memory");
 	if (pos > sb->len)
 		die("`pos' is too far after the end of the buffer");
diff --git a/t/t3509-cherry-pick-merge-df.sh b/t/t3509-cherry-pick-merge-df.sh
index 948ca1b..df921d1 100755
--- a/t/t3509-cherry-pick-merge-df.sh
+++ b/t/t3509-cherry-pick-merge-df.sh
@@ -3,12 +3,14 @@
 test_description='Test cherry-pick with directory/file conflicts'
 . ./test-lib.sh
 
-test_expect_success SYMLINKS 'Setup rename across paths each below D/F conflicts' '
+test_expect_success 'Initialize repository' '
 	mkdir a &&
 	>a/f &&
 	git add a &&
-	git commit -m a &&
+	git commit -m a
+'
 
+test_expect_success SYMLINKS 'Setup rename across paths each below D/F conflicts' '
 	mkdir b &&
 	ln -s ../a b/a &&
 	git add b &&
diff --git a/t/t4013-diff-various.sh b/t/t4013-diff-various.sh
index 9a66520..b8f81d0 100755
--- a/t/t4013-diff-various.sh
+++ b/t/t4013-diff-various.sh
@@ -290,4 +290,15 @@
 	test_must_fail git log -S
 '
 
+test_expect_success 'diff --cached on unborn branch' '
+	echo ref: refs/heads/unborn >.git/HEAD &&
+	git diff --cached >result &&
+	test_cmp "$TEST_DIRECTORY/t4013/diff.diff_--cached" result
+'
+
+test_expect_success 'diff --cached -- file on unborn branch' '
+	git diff --cached -- file0 >result &&
+	test_cmp "$TEST_DIRECTORY/t4013/diff.diff_--cached_--_file0" result
+'
+
 test_done
diff --git a/t/t4013/diff.diff_--cached b/t/t4013/diff.diff_--cached
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..ff16e83
--- /dev/null
+++ b/t/t4013/diff.diff_--cached
@@ -0,0 +1,38 @@
+diff --git a/dir/sub b/dir/sub
+new file mode 100644
+index 0000000..992913c
+--- /dev/null
++++ b/dir/sub
+@@ -0,0 +1,8 @@
++A
++B
++C
++D
++E
++F
++1
++2
+diff --git a/file0 b/file0
+new file mode 100644
+index 0000000..10a8a9f
+--- /dev/null
++++ b/file0
+@@ -0,0 +1,9 @@
++1
++2
++3
++4
++5
++6
++A
++B
++C
+diff --git a/file1 b/file1
+new file mode 100644
+index 0000000..b1e6722
+--- /dev/null
++++ b/file1
+@@ -0,0 +1,3 @@
++A
++B
++C
diff --git a/t/t4013/diff.diff_--cached_--_file0 b/t/t4013/diff.diff_--cached_--_file0
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..b9bb858
--- /dev/null
+++ b/t/t4013/diff.diff_--cached_--_file0
@@ -0,0 +1,15 @@
+diff --git a/file0 b/file0
+new file mode 100644
+index 0000000..10a8a9f
+--- /dev/null
++++ b/file0
+@@ -0,0 +1,9 @@
++1
++2
++3
++4
++5
++6
++A
++B
++C
diff --git a/t/t4120-apply-popt.sh b/t/t4120-apply-popt.sh
index 579c9e6..a33d510 100755
--- a/t/t4120-apply-popt.sh
+++ b/t/t4120-apply-popt.sh
@@ -6,6 +6,7 @@
 test_description='git apply -p handling.'
 
 . ./test-lib.sh
+. "$TEST_DIRECTORY"/lib-prereq-FILEMODE.sh
 
 test_expect_success setup '
 	mkdir sub &&
@@ -62,8 +63,12 @@
 	old mode 100644
 	new mode 100755
 	EOF
-	chmod 644 file1 &&
-	git apply -p2 patch.chmod &&
+	test_chmod -x file1 &&
+	git apply --index -p2 patch.chmod &&
+	case $(git ls-files -s file1) in 100755*) : good;; *) false;; esac
+'
+
+test_expect_success FILEMODE 'file mode was changed' '
 	test -x file1
 '
 
diff --git a/t/t5526-fetch-submodules.sh b/t/t5526-fetch-submodules.sh
index 884a5e5..a5f4585 100755
--- a/t/t5526-fetch-submodules.sh
+++ b/t/t5526-fetch-submodules.sh
@@ -124,7 +124,7 @@
 	(
 		cd downstream &&
 		git fetch --recurse-submodules >../actual.out 2>../actual.err &&
-		git config -f --unset .gitmodules submodule.submodule.fetchRecurseSubmodules true &&
+		git config --unset -f .gitmodules submodule.submodule.fetchRecurseSubmodules &&
 		git config --unset submodule.submodule.fetchRecurseSubmodules
 	) &&
 	test_cmp expect.out actual.out &&
diff --git a/t/t7407-submodule-foreach.sh b/t/t7407-submodule-foreach.sh
index d8ad250..e5be13c 100755
--- a/t/t7407-submodule-foreach.sh
+++ b/t/t7407-submodule-foreach.sh
@@ -238,6 +238,10 @@
 		) &&
 		git submodule status --cached --recursive -- nested1 > ../actual
 	) &&
+	if test_have_prereq MINGW
+	then
+		dos2unix actual
+	fi &&
 	test_cmp expect actual
 '
 
diff --git a/t/t9301-fast-import-notes.sh b/t/t9301-fast-import-notes.sh
index 7cf8cd8..463254c 100755
--- a/t/t9301-fast-import-notes.sh
+++ b/t/t9301-fast-import-notes.sh
@@ -120,6 +120,7 @@
 
 test_tick
 cat >input <<INPUT_END
+feature notes
 commit refs/notes/test
 committer $GIT_COMMITTER_NAME <$GIT_COMMITTER_EMAIL> $GIT_COMMITTER_DATE
 data <<COMMIT
diff --git a/tag.c b/tag.c
index f789744..ecf7c1e 100644
--- a/tag.c
+++ b/tag.c
@@ -56,7 +56,7 @@
 	return strtoul(dateptr, NULL, 10);
 }
 
-int parse_tag_buffer(struct tag *item, void *data, unsigned long size)
+int parse_tag_buffer(struct tag *item, const void *data, unsigned long size)
 {
 	unsigned char sha1[20];
 	char type[20];
diff --git a/tag.h b/tag.h
index 8522370..5ee88e6 100644
--- a/tag.h
+++ b/tag.h
@@ -13,7 +13,7 @@
 };
 
 extern struct tag *lookup_tag(const unsigned char *sha1);
-extern int parse_tag_buffer(struct tag *item, void *data, unsigned long size);
+extern int parse_tag_buffer(struct tag *item, const void *data, unsigned long size);
 extern int parse_tag(struct tag *item);
 extern struct object *deref_tag(struct object *, const char *, int);
 extern size_t parse_signature(const char *buf, unsigned long size);
diff --git a/wrapper.c b/wrapper.c
index 8d7dd31..79635f2 100644
--- a/wrapper.c
+++ b/wrapper.c
@@ -53,7 +53,7 @@
 void *xmallocz(size_t size)
 {
 	void *ret;
-	if (size + 1 < size)
+	if (unsigned_add_overflows(size, 1))
 		die("Data too large to fit into virtual memory space.");
 	ret = xmalloc(size + 1);
 	((char*)ret)[size] = 0;