strbuf_read() used to have one extra iteration (and an unnecessary
strbuf_grow() of 8kB), which was eliminated.

* jh/strbuf-read-use-read-in-full:
  strbuf_read(): skip unnecessary strbuf_grow() at eof

* maint:
  Start preparing for 2.5.1

Signed-off-by: NJunio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>

The command-line completion script (in contrib/) has been updated.

* tb/complete-rebase-i-edit-todo:
  completion: offer '--edit-todo' during interactive rebase

git_path() and mkpath() are handy helper functions but it is easy
to misuse, as the callers need to be careful to keep the number of
active results below 4.  Their uses have been reduced.

* jk/git-path:
  memoize common git-path "constant" files
  get_repo_path: refactor path-allocation
  find_hook: keep our own static buffer
  refs.c: remove_empty_directories can take a strbuf
  refs.c: avoid git_path assignment in lock_ref_sha1_basic
  refs.c: avoid repeated git_path calls in rename_tmp_log
  refs.c: simplify strbufs in reflog setup and writing
  path.c: drop git_path_submodule
  refs.c: remove extra git_path calls from read_loose_refs
  remote.c: drop extraneous local variable from migrate_file
  prefer mkpathdup to mkpath in assignments
  prefer git_pathdup to git_path in some possibly-dangerous cases
  add_to_alternates_file: don't add duplicate entries
  t5700: modernize style
  cache.h: complete set of git_path_submodule helpers
  cache.h: clarify documentation for git_path, et al

Long overdue micro clean-up.

* jc/finalize-temp-file:
  sha1_file.c: rename move_temp_to_file() to finalize_object_file()

"git clone $URL", when cloning from a site whose sole purpose is to
host a single repository (hence, no path after <scheme>://<site>/),
tried to use the site name as the new repository name, but did not
remove username or password when <site> part was of the form
<user>@<pass>:<host>.  The code is taught to redact these.

* ps/guess-repo-name-at-root:
  clone: abort if no dir name could be guessed
  clone: do not use port number as dir name
  clone: do not include authentication data in guessed dir

"git clone $URL" in recent releases of Git contains a regression in
the code that invents a new repository name incorrectly based on
the $URL.  This has been corrected.

* jk/guess-repo-name-regression-fix:
  clone: use computed length in guess_dir_name
  clone: add tests for output directory

A negative !ref entry in multi-value transfer.hideRefs
configuration can be used to say "don't hide this one".

* jk/negative-hiderefs:
  refs: support negative transfer.hideRefs
  docs/config.txt: reorder hideRefs config

Running tests with the "-x" option to make them verbose had some
unpleasant interactions with other features of the test suite.

* jk/test-with-x:
  test-lib: disable trace when test is not verbose
  test-lib: turn off "-x" tracing during chain-lint check

t1509 test that requires a dedicated VM environment had some
bitrot, which has been corrected.

* ps/t1509-chroot-test-fixup:
  tests: fix cleanup after tests in t1509-root-worktree
  tests: fix broken && chains in t1509-root-worktree

* sb/check-return-from-read-ref:
  transport-helper: die on errors reading refs.

"git pull" in recent releases of Git has a regression in the code
that allows custom path to the --upload-pack=<program>.  This has
been corrected.

Note that this is irrelevant for 'master' with "git pull" rewritten
in C.

* mm/pull-upload-pack:
  pull.sh: quote $upload_pack when passing it to git-fetch

Signed-off-by: NJunio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>

* ta/docfix-index-format-tech:
  typofix for index-format.txt

* sb/parse-options-codeformat:
  parse-options: align curly braces for all options

* sb/remove-unused-var-from-builtin-add:
  add: remove dead code

* kn/tag-doc-fix:
  Documentation/tag: remove double occurance of "<pattern>"

* es/doc-clean-outdated-tools:
  Documentation/git-tools: retire manually-maintained list
  Documentation/git-tools: drop references to defunct tools
  Documentation/git-tools: fix item text formatting
  Documentation/git-tools: improve discoverability of Git wiki
  Documentation/git: drop outdated Cogito reference

Running an aliased command from a subdirectory when the .git thing
in the working tree is a gitfile pointing elsewhere did not work.

* nd/export-worktree:
  setup: set env $GIT_WORK_TREE when work tree is set, like $GIT_DIR

Often a fast-import stream builds a new commit on top of the
previous commit it built, and it often unconditionally emits a
"from" command to specify the first parent, which can be omitted in
such a case.  This caused fast-import to forget the tree of the
previous commit and then re-read it from scratch, which was
inefficient.  Optimize for this common case.

* mh/fast-import-optimize-current-from:
  fast-import: do less work when given "from" matches current branch head

The "rev-parse --parseopt" mode parsed the option specification
and the argument hint in a strange way to allow '=' and other
special characters in the option name while forbidding them from
the argument hint.  This made it impossible to define an option
like "--pair <key>=<value>" with "pair=key=value" specification,
which instead would have defined a "--pair=key <value>" option.

* ib/scripted-parse-opt-better-hint-string:
  rev-parse --parseopt: allow [*=?!] in argument hints

A "rebase" replays changes of the local branch on top of something
else, as such they are placed in stage #3 and referred to as
"theirs", while the changes in the new base, typically a foreign
work, are placed in stage #2 and referred to as "ours".  Clarify
the "checkout --ours/--theirs".

* se/doc-checkout-ours-theirs:
  checkout: document subtlety around --ours/--theirs

An experimental "untracked cache" feature used uname(2) in a
slightly unportable way.

* cb/uname-in-untracked:
  untracked: fix detection of uname(2) failure

"sparse checkout" misbehaved for a path that is excluded from the
checkout when switching between branches that differ at the path.

* as/sparse-checkout-removal:
  unpack-trees: don't update files with CE_WT_REMOVE set

The low-level "git send-pack" did not honor 'user.signingkey'
configuration variable when sending a signed-push.

* db/send-pack-user-signingkey:
  builtin/send-pack.c: respect user.signingkey

An attempt to delete a ref by pushing into a repositorywhose HEAD
symbolic reference points at an unborn branch that cannot be
created due to ref D/F conflict (e.g. refs/heads/a/b exists, HEAD
points at refs/heads/a) failed.

* jx/do-not-crash-receive-pack-wo-head:
  receive-pack: crash when checking with non-exist HEAD

"git subtree" (in contrib/) depended on "git log" output to be
stable, which was a no-no.  Apply a workaround to force a
particular date format.

* da/subtree-date-confusion:
  contrib/subtree: ignore log.date configuration

Signed-off-by: NJunio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>

Allow untracked cache (experimental) to be used when sparse
checkout (experimental) is also in use.

* dt/untracked-sparse:
  untracked-cache: support sparse checkout

* ta/docfix-index-format-tech:
  typofix for index-format.txt

An off-by-one error made "git remote" to mishandle a remote with a
single letter nickname.

* mh/get-remote-group-fix:
  get_remote_group(): use skip_prefix()
  get_remote_group(): eliminate superfluous call to strcspn()
  get_remote_group(): rename local variable "space" to "wordlen"
  get_remote_group(): handle remotes with single-character names

"git pull --rebase" has been taught to pay attention to
rebase.autostash configuration.

* kd/pull-rebase-autostash:
  pull: allow dirty tree when rebase.autostash enabled

Signed-off-by: NJunio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>

* sb/remove-unused-var-from-builtin-add:
  add: remove dead code

* sb/parse-options-codeformat:
  parse-options: align curly braces for all options

The code to perform multi-tree merges has been taught to repopulate
the cache-tree upon a successful merge into the index, so that
subsequent "diff-index --cached" (hence "status") and "write-tree"
(hence "commit") will go faster.

The same logic in "git checkout" may now be removed, but that is a
separate issue.

* dt/unpack-trees-cache-tree-revalidate:
  unpack-trees: populate cache-tree on successful merge

Tests that assume how reflogs are represented on the filesystem too
much have been corrected.

* dt/reflog-tests:
  tests: remove some direct access to .git/logs
  t/t7509: remove unnecessary manipulation of reflog

The "new-worktree-mode" hack in "checkout" that was added in
nd/multiple-work-trees topic has been removed by updating the
implementation of new "worktree add".

* es/worktree-add-cleanup: (25 commits)
  Documentation/git-worktree: fix duplicated 'from'
  Documentation/config: mention "now" and "never" for 'expire' settings
  Documentation/git-worktree: fix broken 'linkgit' invocation
  checkout: drop intimate knowledge of newly created worktree
  worktree: populate via "git reset --hard" rather than "git checkout"
  worktree: avoid resolving HEAD unnecessarily
  worktree: make setup of new HEAD distinct from worktree population
  worktree: detect branch-name/detached and error conditions locally
  worktree: add_worktree: construct worktree-population command locally
  worktree: elucidate environment variables intended for child processes
  worktree: make branch creation distinct from worktree population
  worktree: add: suppress auto-vivication with --detach and no <branch>
  worktree: make --detach mutually exclusive with -b/-B
  worktree: introduce options container
  worktree: simplify new branch (-b/-B) option checking
  worktree: improve worktree setup message
  branch: publish die_if_checked_out()
  checkout: teach check_linked_checkout() about symbolic link HEAD
  checkout: check_linked_checkout: simplify symref parsing
  checkout: check_linked_checkout: improve "already checked out" aesthetic
  ...

Rewrite "am" in "C".

* pt/am-builtin: (46 commits)
  git-am: add am.threeWay config variable
  builtin-am: remove redirection to git-am.sh
  builtin-am: check for valid committer ident
  builtin-am: implement legacy -b/--binary option
  builtin-am: implement -i/--interactive
  builtin-am: support and auto-detect mercurial patches
  builtin-am: support and auto-detect StGit series files
  builtin-am: support and auto-detect StGit patches
  builtin-am: rerere support
  builtin-am: invoke post-applypatch hook
  builtin-am: invoke pre-applypatch hook
  builtin-am: invoke applypatch-msg hook
  builtin-am: support automatic notes copying
  builtin-am: invoke post-rewrite hook
  builtin-am: implement -S/--gpg-sign, commit.gpgsign
  builtin-am: implement --committer-date-is-author-date
  builtin-am: implement --ignore-date
  builtin-am: pass git-apply's options to git-apply
  builtin-am: implement --[no-]scissors
  builtin-am: support --keep-cr, am.keepcr
  ...