+* Peter Hagervall's sparse fix [DONE].
+
+* Alex Riesen reported that hooks are in effect in tests.
+ Should fix [DONE].
+
+* Disallow [\001-\040\177] byte values from ref names. Also we
+ need to disallow ':' (used in refspec), '^' and '~' (postfix
+ "peel the onion" operators), and '..' ("ref1..ref2" notation
+ becomes ambiguous otherwise) [DONE].
+
+* Update fetch-pack and clone-pack to ignore funny refs from the
+ other end, while making sure peek-remote does not discard them.
+ [DONE]
+
+* Update upload-pack to send tag^{}. This would hopefully help
+ Pasky's automated tag tracking, and also Martin's findtags.
+ [DONE]
+
+* Adjust update-index to quoted --index-info [DONE].
+
+* Prepare apply.c changes for maint branch (0.99.8e) [READY].
+
+* Perhaps show ^{commit}, ^{tree} instead of ^{} from ls-remote?
+
+* Re-adjust maint branch for the above if we did so.
+