diff --git a/.mailmap b/.mailmap
index 695739e..a32d9e2 100644
--- a/.mailmap
+++ b/.mailmap
@@ -43,6 +43,7 @@
 Theodore Ts'o <tytso@mit.edu>
 Tony Luck <tony.luck@intel.com>
 Uwe Kleine-König <Uwe_Zeisberger@digi.com>
+Uwe Kleine-König <Uwe.Kleine-Koenig@digi.com>
 Uwe Kleine-König <ukleinek@informatik.uni-freiburg.de>
 Uwe Kleine-König <uzeisberger@io.fsforth.de>
 Uwe Kleine-König <zeisberg@informatik.uni-freiburg.de>
diff --git a/Documentation/RelNotes-1.5.4.1.txt b/Documentation/RelNotes-1.5.4.1.txt
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..d4e44b8
--- /dev/null
+++ b/Documentation/RelNotes-1.5.4.1.txt
@@ -0,0 +1,17 @@
+GIT v1.5.4.1 Release Notes
+==========================
+
+Fixes since v1.5.4
+------------------
+
+ * "git-commit -C $tag" used to work but rewrite in C done in
+   1.5.4 broke it.
+
+ * An entry in the .gitattributes file that names a pattern in a
+   subdirectory of the directory it is in did not match
+   correctly (e.g. pattern "b/*.c" in "a/.gitattributes" should
+   match "a/b/foo.c" but it didn't).
+
+ * Customized color specification was parsed incorrectly when
+   numeric color values are used.  This was fixed in 1.5.4.1.
+
diff --git a/Documentation/RelNotes-1.5.4.2.txt b/Documentation/RelNotes-1.5.4.2.txt
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..21d0df5
--- /dev/null
+++ b/Documentation/RelNotes-1.5.4.2.txt
@@ -0,0 +1,43 @@
+GIT v1.5.4.2 Release Notes
+==========================
+
+Fixes since v1.5.4
+------------------
+
+ * The configuration parser was not prepared to see string
+   valued variables misspelled as boolean and segfaulted.
+
+ * Temporary files left behind due to interrupted object
+   transfers were not cleaned up with "git prune".
+
+ * "git config --unset" was confused when the unset variables
+   were spelled with continuation lines in the config file.
+
+ * The merge message detection in "git cvsimport" did not catch
+   a message that began with "Merge...".
+
+ * "git status" suggests "git rm --cached" for unstaging the
+   earlier "git add" before the initial commit.
+
+ * "git status" output was incorrect during a partial commit.
+
+ * "git bisect" refused to start when the HEAD was detached.
+
+ * "git bisect" allowed a wildcard character in the commit
+   message expanded while writing its log file.
+
+ * Manual pages were not formatted correctly with docbook xsl
+   1.72; added a workaround.
+
+ * "git-commit -C $tag" used to work but rewrite in C done in
+   1.5.4 broke it.  This was fixed in 1.5.4.1.
+
+ * An entry in the .gitattributes file that names a pattern in a
+   subdirectory of the directory it is in did not match
+   correctly (e.g. pattern "b/*.c" in "a/.gitattributes" should
+   match "a/b/foo.c" but it didn't).  This was fixed in 1.5.4.1.
+
+ * Customized color specification was parsed incorrectly when
+   numeric color values are used.  This was fixed in 1.5.4.1.
+
+ * http transport misbehaved when linked with curl-gnutls.
diff --git a/GIT-VERSION-GEN b/GIT-VERSION-GEN
index 38a3273..03fb9d7 100755
--- a/GIT-VERSION-GEN
+++ b/GIT-VERSION-GEN
@@ -1,7 +1,7 @@
 #!/bin/sh
 
 GVF=GIT-VERSION-FILE
-DEF_VER=v1.5.4.GIT
+DEF_VER=v1.5.4.2.GIT
 
 LF='
 '
@@ -15,7 +15,8 @@
 	VN=$(git describe --abbrev=4 HEAD 2>/dev/null) &&
 	case "$VN" in
 	*$LF*) (exit 1) ;;
-	v[0-9]*) : happy ;;
+	v[0-9]*)
+		git diff-index --quiet HEAD || VN="$VN-dirty" ;;
 	esac
 then
 	VN=$(echo "$VN" | sed -e 's/-/./g');
@@ -25,14 +26,6 @@
 
 VN=$(expr "$VN" : v*'\(.*\)')
 
-dirty=$(sh -c 'git diff-index --name-only HEAD' 2>/dev/null) || dirty=
-case "$dirty" in
-'')
-	;;
-*)
-	VN="$VN-dirty" ;;
-esac
-
 if test -r $GVF
 then
 	VC=$(sed -e 's/^GIT_VERSION = //' <$GVF)
diff --git a/RelNotes b/RelNotes
index 46308ce..7ab3485 120000
--- a/RelNotes
+++ b/RelNotes
@@ -1 +1 @@
-Documentation/RelNotes-1.5.4.txt
\ No newline at end of file
+Documentation/RelNotes-1.5.4.2.txt
\ No newline at end of file