diff --git a/Documentation/RelNotes-1.5.4.4.txt b/Documentation/RelNotes-1.5.4.4.txt
index 5bfdb35376..5635977c93 100644
--- a/Documentation/RelNotes-1.5.4.4.txt
+++ b/Documentation/RelNotes-1.5.4.4.txt
@@ -4,6 +4,10 @@ GIT v1.5.4.4 Release Notes
 Fixes since v1.5.4.3
 --------------------
 
+ * Building and installing with an overtight umask such as 077 made
+   installed templates unreadable by others, while the rest of the install
+   are done in a way that is friendly to umask 022.
+
  * "git cvsexportcommit -w $cvsdir" misbehaved when GIT_DIR is set to a
    relative directory.
 
@@ -17,10 +21,26 @@ Fixes since v1.5.4.3
 
  * "git send-email" in 1.5.4.3 issued a bogus empty In-Reply-To: header.
 
+ * "git bisect" showed mysterious "won't bisect on seeked tree" error message.
+   This was leftover from Cogito days to prevent "bisect" starting from a
+   cg-seeked state.  We still keep the Cogito safety, but running "git bisect
+   start" when another bisect was in effect will clean up and start over.
+
+ * "git push" with an explicit PATH to receive-pack did not quite work if
+   receive-pack was not on usual PATH.  We earlier fixed the same issue
+   with "git fetch" and upload-pack, but somehow forgot to do so in the
+   other direction.
+
+ * git-gui's info dialog was not displayed correctly when the user tries
+   to commit nothing (i.e. without staging anything).
+
+ * "git revert" did not properly fail when attempting to run with a
+   dirty index.
+
 Also included are a handful documentation updates.
 
 ---
 exec >/var/tmp/1
 echo O=$(git describe maint)
-O=v1.5.4.3
+O=v1.5.4.3-32-g0f2d447
 git shortlog --no-merges $O..maint
diff --git a/builtin-revert.c b/builtin-revert.c
index b6dee6a56c..607a2f0337 100644
--- a/builtin-revert.c
+++ b/builtin-revert.c
@@ -9,6 +9,8 @@
 #include "utf8.h"
 #include "parse-options.h"
 #include "cache-tree.h"
+#include "diff.h"
+#include "revision.h"
 
 /*
  * This implements the builtins revert and cherry-pick.
@@ -246,6 +248,17 @@ static char *help_msg(const unsigned char *sha1)
 	return helpbuf;
 }
 
+static int index_is_dirty(void)
+{
+	struct rev_info rev;
+	init_revisions(&rev, NULL);
+	setup_revisions(0, NULL, &rev, "HEAD");
+	DIFF_OPT_SET(&rev.diffopt, QUIET);
+	DIFF_OPT_SET(&rev.diffopt, EXIT_WITH_STATUS);
+	run_diff_index(&rev, 1);
+	return !!DIFF_OPT_TST(&rev.diffopt, HAS_CHANGES);
+}
+
 static int revert_or_cherry_pick(int argc, const char **argv)
 {
 	unsigned char head[20];
@@ -274,12 +287,11 @@ static int revert_or_cherry_pick(int argc, const char **argv)
 		if (write_cache_as_tree(head, 0, NULL))
 			die ("Your index file is unmerged.");
 	} else {
-		struct wt_status s;
-
 		if (get_sha1("HEAD", head))
 			die ("You do not have a valid HEAD");
-		wt_status_prepare(&s);
-		if (s.commitable)
+		if (read_cache() < 0)
+			die("could not read the index");
+		if (index_is_dirty())
 			die ("Dirty index: cannot %s", me);
 		discard_cache();
 	}
diff --git a/git-submodule.sh b/git-submodule.sh
index a6aaf40b0a..67d3224c8c 100755
--- a/git-submodule.sh
+++ b/git-submodule.sh
@@ -362,7 +362,7 @@ cmd_status()
 	do
 		name=$(module_name "$path") || exit
 		url=$(git config submodule."$name".url)
-		if test -z "url" || ! test -d "$path"/.git
+		if test -z "$url" || ! test -d "$path"/.git
 		then
 			say "-$sha1 $path"
 			continue;
diff --git a/receive-pack.c b/receive-pack.c
index 0ca2a80bf0..de7e18c49e 100644
--- a/receive-pack.c
+++ b/receive-pack.c
@@ -481,6 +481,8 @@ int main(int argc, char **argv)
 	if (!dir)
 		usage(receive_pack_usage);
 
+	setup_path(NULL);
+
 	if (!enter_repo(dir, 0))
 		die("'%s': unable to chdir or not a git archive", dir);
 
diff --git a/t/t3501-revert-cherry-pick.sh b/t/t3501-revert-cherry-pick.sh
index 2dbe04fb20..6da212825a 100755
--- a/t/t3501-revert-cherry-pick.sh
+++ b/t/t3501-revert-cherry-pick.sh
@@ -59,4 +59,13 @@ test_expect_success 'revert after renaming branch' '
 
 '
 
+test_expect_success 'revert forbidden on dirty working tree' '
+
+	echo content >extra_file &&
+	git add extra_file &&
+	test_must_fail git revert HEAD 2>errors &&
+	grep "Dirty index" errors
+
+'
+
 test_done