Fix typo
OCD follow up
Validate SliceRange start and finish lengths

patch by Ben Bromhead; reviewed by Aleksey Yeschenko for CASSANDRA-6521
add .gitignore
patch by Michael Shuler; reviewed by jbellis for CASSANDRA-4899
fsync compression metadata
patch by jbellis; reviewed by Pavel Yaskevich for CASSANDRA-6531
shutdown() the compaction strategy in CFS.invalidate()
make CM.Writer.close idempotent
Allow nodetool to optionally resolve hostnames.
Patch by Daneel S. Yaitskov, reviewed by brandonwilliams for
CASSANDRA-2238
Validate CF existence on execution for prepared statement

patch by aholmber; reviewed by slebresne for CASSANDRA-6535
Add ability to throttle batchlog replay

patch by Aleksey Yeschenko; reviewed by Jonathan Ellis for
CASSANDRA-6550
Fix execution of LOCAL_QUORUM queries with SimpleStrategy

patch by alexliu68; reviewed by slebresne for CASSANDRA-6545
Don't update system table for unknown nodes/dead states
Patch by Tyler Hobbs, reviewed by brandonwilliams for CASSANDRA-6053
make isDeadState public
fix tests
Avoid StackOverflow with large IN queries

patch by slebresne; reviewed by jbellis for CASSANDRA-6567
Don't shutdown a nonexistant native server on 1.2, either.
Refuse snapshots during bootstrap.
Patch by brandonwilliams, reviewed by thobbs for CASSANDRA-6585
getValidColumnFamilies adds 2I if requested and no ks/cf specified
Patch by brandonwilliams, reviewed by jbellis for CASSANDRA-6598
update CHANGES
HSHA rethrows OOM
Patch by Mikhail Stepura, reviewed by brandonwilliams for CASSANDRA-6255