Merge branch 'master' into lj/refs

* master: (72 commits)
  runstatus: do not recurse into subdirectories if not needed
  grep: fix --fixed-strings combined with expression.
  grep: free expressions and patterns when done.
  Corrected copy-and-paste thinko in ignore executable bit test case.
  An illustration of rev-list --parents --pretty=raw
  Allow git-checkout when on a non-existant branch.
  gitweb: Decode long title for link tooltips
  git-svn: Fix fetch --no-ignore-externals with GIT_SVN_NO_LIB=1
  Ignore executable bit when adding files if filemode=0.
  Remove empty ref directories that prevent creating a ref.
  Use const for interpolate arguments
  git-archive: update documentation
  Deprecate merge-recursive.py
  gitweb: fix over-eager application of esc_html().
  Allow '(no author)' in git-svn's authors file.
  Allow 'svn fetch' on '(no date)' revisions in Subversion.
  git-repack: allow git-repack to run in subdirectory
  Remove upload-tar and make git-tar-tree a thin wrapper to git-archive
  git-tar-tree: Move code for git-archive --format=tar to archive-tar.c
  git-tar-tree: Remove duplicate git_config() call
  ...

1 files changed, 4 insertions, 15 deletions

diff --git a/git-rebase.sh b/git-rebase.sh
index 20f74d416..a7373c053 100755
--- a/git-rebase.sh
+++ b/git-rebase.sh
@@ -35,13 +35,7 @@ If you would prefer to skip this patch, instead run \"git rebase --skip\".
 To restore the original branch and stop rebasing run \"git rebase --abort\".
 "
 unset newbase
-case "${GIT_USE_RECUR_FOR_RECURSIVE}" in
-'')
-	strategy=recursive ;;
-?*)
-	strategy=recur ;;
-esac
-
+strategy=recursive
 do_merge=
 dotest=$GIT_DIR/.dotest-merge
 prec=4
@@ -206,11 +200,6 @@ do
 	shift
 done
 
-case "$strategy,${GIT_USE_RECUR_FOR_RECURSIVE}" in
-recursive,?*)
-	strategy=recur ;;
-esac
-
 # Make sure we do not have .dotest
 if test -z "$do_merge"
 then
@@ -303,11 +292,11 @@ then
 	exit $?
 fi
 
-if test "@@NO_PYTHON@@" && test "$strategy" = "recursive"
+if test "@@NO_PYTHON@@" && test "$strategy" = "recursive-old"
 then
-	die 'The recursive merge strategy currently relies on Python,
+	die 'The recursive-old merge strategy is written in Python,
 which this installation of git was not configured with.  Please consider
-a different merge strategy (e.g. octopus, resolve, stupid, ours)
+a different merge strategy (e.g. recursive, resolve, or stupid)
 or install Python and git with Python support.'
 
 fi