Merge branch 'maint-1.7.7' into maint

* maint-1.7.7:
  am: don't persist keepcr flag
  mingw: give waitpid the correct signature
  git symbolic-ref: documentation fix

4 files changed, 5 insertions, 15 deletions

diff --git a/Documentation/git-symbolic-ref.txt b/Documentation/git-symbolic-ref.txt
index 75b1ae5061..a45d4c4f29 100644
--- a/Documentation/git-symbolic-ref.txt
+++ b/Documentation/git-symbolic-ref.txt
@@ -43,12 +43,9 @@ In the past, `.git/HEAD` was a symbolic link pointing at
 `refs/heads/master`.  When we wanted to switch to another branch,
 we did `ln -sf refs/heads/newbranch .git/HEAD`, and when we wanted
 to find out which branch we are on, we did `readlink .git/HEAD`.
-This was fine, and internally that is what still happens by
-default, but on platforms that do not have working symlinks,
-or that do not have the `readlink(1)` command, this was a bit
-cumbersome.  On some platforms, `ln -sf` does not even work as
-advertised (horrors).  Therefore symbolic links are now deprecated
-and symbolic refs are used by default.
+But symbolic links are not entirely portable, so they are now
+deprecated and symbolic refs (as described above) are used by
+default.
 
 'git symbolic-ref' will exit with status 0 if the contents of the
 symbolic ref were printed correctly, with status 1 if the requested
diff --git a/compat/mingw.c b/compat/mingw.c
index efdc703257..a0ac487c0c 100644
--- a/compat/mingw.c
+++ b/compat/mingw.c
@@ -1712,7 +1712,7 @@ char *getpass(const char *prompt)
 	return strbuf_detach(&buf, NULL);
 }
 
-pid_t waitpid(pid_t pid, int *status, unsigned options)
+pid_t waitpid(pid_t pid, int *status, int options)
 {
 	HANDLE h = OpenProcess(SYNCHRONIZE | PROCESS_QUERY_INFORMATION,
 	    FALSE, pid);
diff --git a/compat/mingw.h b/compat/mingw.h
index fecf0d0776..0ff1e04812 100644
--- a/compat/mingw.h
+++ b/compat/mingw.h
@@ -120,7 +120,7 @@ static inline int mingw_mkdir(const char *path, int mode)
 #define mkdir mingw_mkdir
 
 #define WNOHANG 1
-pid_t waitpid(pid_t pid, int *status, unsigned options);
+pid_t waitpid(pid_t pid, int *status, int options);
 
 #define kill mingw_kill
 int mingw_kill(pid_t pid, int sig);
diff --git a/git-am.sh b/git-am.sh
index 9042432e23..1c13b13991 100755
--- a/git-am.sh
+++ b/git-am.sh
@@ -530,7 +530,6 @@ else
 	echo "$sign" >"$dotest/sign"
 	echo "$utf8" >"$dotest/utf8"
 	echo "$keep" >"$dotest/keep"
-	echo "$keepcr" >"$dotest/keepcr"
 	echo "$scissors" >"$dotest/scissors"
 	echo "$no_inbody_headers" >"$dotest/no_inbody_headers"
 	echo "$GIT_QUIET" >"$dotest/quiet"
@@ -576,12 +575,6 @@ if test "$(cat "$dotest/keep")" = t
 then
 	keep=-k
 fi
-case "$(cat "$dotest/keepcr")" in
-t)
-	keepcr=--keep-cr ;;
-f)
-	keepcr=--no-keep-cr ;;
-esac
 case "$(cat "$dotest/scissors")" in
 t)
 	scissors=--scissors ;;