Code cleanup.

* rs/strbuf-remove-fix:
  strbuf: use valid pointer in strbuf_remove()

Code cleanup.

* rs/pack-sort-with-llist-mergesort:
  sha1_file: use llist_mergesort() for sorting packs

Code cleanup.

* rs/checkout-some-states-are-const:
  checkout: constify parameters of checkout_stage() and checkout_merged()

There were numerous corner cases in which the configuration files
are read and used or not read at all depending on the directory a
Git command was run, leading to inconsistent behaviour.  The code
to set-up repository access at the beginning of a Git process has
been updated to fix them.

* jk/setup-sequence-update:
  t1007: factor out repeated setup
  init: reset cached config when entering new repo
  init: expand comments explaining config trickery
  config: only read .git/config from configured repos
  test-config: setup git directory
  t1302: use "git -C"
  pager: handle early config
  pager: use callbacks instead of configset
  pager: make pager_program a file-local static
  pager: stop loading git_default_config()
  pager: remove obsolete comment
  diff: always try to set up the repository
  diff: handle --no-index prefixes consistently
  diff: skip implicit no-index check when given --no-index
  patch-id: use RUN_SETUP_GENTLY
  hash-object: always try to set up the git repository

The http transport (with curl-multi option, which is the default
these days) failed to remove curl-easy handle from a curlm session,
which led to unnecessary API failures.

* ew/http-do-not-forget-to-call-curl-multi-remove-handle:
  http: always remove curl easy from curlm session on release
  http: consolidate #ifdefs for curl_multi_remove_handle
  http: warn on curl_multi_add_handle failures

Code cleanup.

* bw/pathspec-remove-unused-extern-decl:
  pathspec: remove unnecessary function prototypes

Some codepaths in "git pack-objects" were not ready to use an
existing pack bitmap; now they are and as the result they have
become faster.

* ks/pack-objects-bitmap:
  pack-objects: use reachability bitmap index when generating non-stdout pack
  pack-objects: respect --local/--honor-pack-keep/--incremental when bitmap is in use

"git log --cherry-pick" used to include merge commits as candidates
to be matched up with other commits, resulting a lot of wasted time.
The patch-id generation logic has been updated to ignore merges to
avoid the wastage.

* jk/patch-ids-no-merges:
  patch-ids: refuse to compute patch-id for merge commit
  patch-ids: turn off rename detection

Recently we updated the code to manage the in-core cache that holds
objects that have recently been used to reconstitute other objects
that are stored as deltas against them, but the update used an
incorrect API function to manage the list of these objects.  This
has been fixed.

* jk/delta-base-cache:
  add_delta_base_cache: use list_for_each_safe

"git add --chmod=+x" added recently lacked documentation, which has
been corrected.

* et/add-chmod-x:
  add: document the chmod option

Even though "git hash-objects", which is a tool to take an
on-filesystem data stream and put it into the Git object store,
allowed to perform the "outside-world-to-Git" conversions (e.g.
end-of-line conversions and application of the clean-filter), and
it had the feature on by default from very early days, its reverse
operation "git cat-file", which takes an object from the Git object
store and externalize for the consumption by the outside world,
lacked an equivalent mechanism to run the "Git-to-outside-world"
conversion.  The command learned the "--filters" option to do so.

* js/cat-file-filters:
  cat-file: support --textconv/--filters in batch mode
  cat-file --textconv/--filters: allow specifying the path separately
  cat-file: introduce the --filters option
  cat-file: fix a grammo in the man page

JGit can show a fake ref "capabilities^{}" to "git fetch" when it
does not advertise any refs, but "git fetch" was not prepared to
see such an advertisement.  When the other side disconnects without
giving any ref advertisement, we used to say "there may not be a
repository at that URL", but we may have seen other advertisement
like "shallow" and ".have" in which case we definitely know that a
repository is there.  The code to detect this case has also been
updated.

* jt/accept-capability-advertisement-when-fetching-from-void:
  connect: advertized capability is not a ref
  connect: tighten check for unexpected early hang up
  tests: move test_lazy_prereq JGIT to test-lib.sh

* maint:
  Start preparing for 2.10.1

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

Code cleanup.

* sb/diff-cleanup:
  diff: remove dead code
  diff: omit found pointer from emit_callback
  diff.c: use diff_options directly

Message cleanup.

* ah/misc-message-fixes:
  unpack-trees: do not capitalize "working"
  git-merge-octopus: do not capitalize "octopus"
  git-rebase--interactive: fix English grammar
  cat-file: put spaces around pipes in usage string
  am: put spaces around pipe in usage string

Message cleanup.

* sb/transport-report-missing-submodule-on-stderr:
  transport: report missing submodule pushes consistently on stderr

Code cleanup.

* sb/xdiff-remove-unused-static-decl:
  xdiff: remove unneeded declarations

Test fix.

* js/t9903-chaining:
  t9903: fix broken && chain

Code cleanup.

* rs/hex2chr:
  introduce hex2chr() for converting two hexadecimal digits to a character

Code cleanup.

* rs/compat-strdup:
  compat: move strdup(3) replacement to its own file

Compilation fix.

* jk/squelch-false-warning-from-gcc-o3:
  color_parse_mem: initialize "struct color" temporary
  error_errno: use constant return similar to error()

Update a few tests that used to use GIT_CURL_VERBOSE to use the
newer GIT_TRACE_CURL.

* ep/use-git-trace-curl-in-tests:
  t5551-http-fetch-smart.sh: use the GIT_TRACE_CURL environment var
  t5550-http-fetch-dumb.sh: use the GIT_TRACE_CURL environment var
  test-lib.sh: preserve GIT_TRACE_CURL from the environment
  t5541-http-push-smart.sh: use the GIT_TRACE_CURL environment var

A test spawned a short-lived background process, which sometimes
prevented the test directory from getting removed at the end of the
script on some platforms.

* js/t6026-clean-up:
  t6026-merge-attr: clean up background process at end of test case

"git symbolic-ref -d HEAD" happily removes the symbolic ref, but
the resulting repository becomes an invalid one.  Teach the command
to forbid removal of HEAD.

* jc/forbid-symbolic-ref-d-HEAD:
  symbolic-ref -d: do not allow removal of HEAD

Having a submodule whose ".git" repository is somehow corrupt
caused a few commands that recurse into submodules loop forever.

* jc/submodule-anchor-git-dir:
  submodule: avoid auto-discovery in prepare_submodule_repo_env()

The test framework left the number of tests and success/failure
count in the t/test-results directory, keyed by the name of the
test script plus the process ID.  The latter however turned out not
to serve any useful purpose.  The process ID part of the filename
has been removed.

* jk/test-lib-drop-pid-from-results:
  test-lib: drop PID from test-results/*.count

"diff-highlight" script (in contrib/) learned to work better with
"git log -p --graph" output.

* bh/diff-highlight-graph:
  diff-highlight: avoid highlighting combined diffs
  diff-highlight: add multi-byte tests
  diff-highlight: ignore test cruft
  diff-highlight: add support for --graph output
  diff-highlight: add failing test for handling --graph output
  diff-highlight: add some tests

Clarify various ways to specify the "revision ranges" in the
documentation.

* po/range-doc:
  doc: revisions: sort examples and fix alignment of the unchanged
  doc: revisions: show revision expansion in examples
  doc: revisions - clarify reachability examples
  doc: revisions - define `reachable`
  doc: gitrevisions - clarify 'latter case' is revision walk
  doc: gitrevisions - use 'reachable' in page description
  doc: revisions: single vs multi-parent notation comparison
  doc: revisions: extra clarification of <rev>^! notation effects
  doc: revisions: give headings for the two and three dot notations
  doc: show the actual left, right, and boundary marks
  doc: revisions - name the left and right sides
  doc: use 'symmetric difference' consistently

This round they are somewhat bigger topics.
Signed-off-by: NJunio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>

The "unsigned char sha1[20]" to "struct object_id" conversion
continues.  Notable changes in this round includes that ce->sha1,
i.e. the object name recorded in the cache_entry, turns into an
object_id.

It had merge conflicts with a few topics in flight (Christian's
"apply.c split", Dscho's "cat-file --filters" and Jeff Hostetler's
"status --porcelain-v2").  Extra sets of eyes double-checking for
mismerges are highly appreciated.

* bc/object-id:
  builtin/reset: convert to use struct object_id
  builtin/commit-tree: convert to struct object_id
  builtin/am: convert to struct object_id
  refs: add an update_ref_oid function.
  sha1_name: convert get_sha1_mb to struct object_id
  builtin/update-index: convert file to struct object_id
  notes: convert init_notes to use struct object_id
  builtin/rm: convert to use struct object_id
  builtin/blame: convert file to use struct object_id
  Convert read_mmblob to take struct object_id.
  notes-merge: convert struct notes_merge_pair to struct object_id
  builtin/checkout: convert some static functions to struct object_id
  streaming: make stream_blob_to_fd take struct object_id
  builtin: convert textconv_object to use struct object_id
  builtin/cat-file: convert some static functions to struct object_id
  builtin/cat-file: convert struct expand_data to use struct object_id
  builtin/log: convert some static functions to use struct object_id
  builtin/blame: convert struct origin to use struct object_id
  builtin/apply: convert static functions to struct object_id
  cache: convert struct cache_entry to use struct object_id

The ref-store abstraction was introduced to the refs API so that we
can plug in different backends to store references.

* mh/ref-store: (38 commits)
  refs: implement iteration over only per-worktree refs
  refs: make lock generic
  refs: add method to rename refs
  refs: add methods to init refs db
  refs: make delete_refs() virtual
  refs: add method for initial ref transaction commit
  refs: add methods for reflog
  refs: add method iterator_begin
  files_ref_iterator_begin(): take a ref_store argument
  split_symref_update(): add a files_ref_store argument
  lock_ref_sha1_basic(): add a files_ref_store argument
  lock_ref_for_update(): add a files_ref_store argument
  commit_ref_update(): add a files_ref_store argument
  lock_raw_ref(): add a files_ref_store argument
  repack_without_refs(): add a files_ref_store argument
  refs: make peel_ref() virtual
  refs: make create_symref() virtual
  refs: make pack_refs() virtual
  refs: make verify_refname_available() virtual
  refs: make read_raw_ref() virtual
  ...

"git am" has been taught to make an internal call to "git apply"'s
innards without spawning the latter as a separate process.

* cc/apply-am: (41 commits)
  builtin/am: use apply API in run_apply()
  apply: learn to use a different index file
  apply: pass apply state to build_fake_ancestor()
  apply: refactor `git apply` option parsing
  apply: change error_routine when silent
  usage: add get_error_routine() and get_warn_routine()
  usage: add set_warn_routine()
  apply: don't print on stdout in verbosity_silent mode
  apply: make it possible to silently apply
  apply: use error_errno() where possible
  apply: make some parsing functions static again
  apply: move libified code from builtin/apply.c to apply.{c,h}
  apply: rename and move opt constants to apply.h
  builtin/apply: rename option parsing functions
  builtin/apply: make create_one_file() return -1 on error
  builtin/apply: make try_create_file() return -1 on error
  builtin/apply: make write_out_results() return -1 on error
  builtin/apply: make write_out_one_result() return -1 on error
  builtin/apply: make create_file() return -1 on error
  builtin/apply: make add_index_file() return -1 on error
  ...

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

"git commit-tree" stopped reading commit.gpgsign configuration
variable that was meant for Porcelain "git commit" in Git 2.9; we
forgot to update "git gui" to look at the configuration to match
this change.

* js/git-gui-commit-gpgsign:
  git-gui: respect commit.gpgsign again

Lifts calls to exit(2) and die() higher in the callchain in
sequencer.c files so that more helper functions in it can be used
by callers that want to handle error conditions themselves.

* js/sequencer-wo-die:
  sequencer: ensure to release the lock when we could not read the index
  sequencer: lib'ify checkout_fast_forward()
  sequencer: lib'ify fast_forward_to()
  sequencer: lib'ify save_opts()
  sequencer: lib'ify save_todo()
  sequencer: lib'ify save_head()
  sequencer: lib'ify create_seq_dir()
  sequencer: lib'ify read_populate_opts()
  sequencer: lib'ify read_populate_todo()
  sequencer: lib'ify read_and_refresh_cache()
  sequencer: lib'ify prepare_revs()
  sequencer: lib'ify walk_revs_populate_todo()
  sequencer: lib'ify do_pick_commit()
  sequencer: lib'ify do_recursive_merge()
  sequencer: lib'ify write_message()
  sequencer: do not die() in do_pick_commit()
  sequencer: lib'ify sequencer_pick_revisions()

Code cleanup.

* sb/diff-cleanup:
  diff: remove dead code
  diff: omit found pointer from emit_callback
  diff.c: use diff_options directly

"git fetch http::/site/path" did not die correctly and segfaulted
instead.

* jk/fix-remote-curl-url-wo-proto:
  remote-curl: handle URLs without protocol

Message cleanup.

* ah/misc-message-fixes:
  unpack-trees: do not capitalize "working"
  git-merge-octopus: do not capitalize "octopus"
  git-rebase--interactive: fix English grammar
  cat-file: put spaces around pipes in usage string
  am: put spaces around pipe in usage string

Update Japanese translation for "git-gui".

* sy/git-gui-i18n-ja:
  git-gui: update Japanese information
  git-gui: update Japanese translation
  git-gui: add Japanese language code
  git-gui: apply po template to Japanese translation
  git-gui: consistently use the same word for "blame" in Japanese
  git-gui: consistently use the same word for "remote" in Japanese