Instead pass it around starting from the toplevel cmd_merge()
as an explicit parameter.
Signed-off-by: NJunio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>

This happens when git merge is run to merge multiple commits that are
descendants of current HEAD (or are HEAD).  We've hit this while updating
master to origin/master but accidentaly we called (while being on master):

	$ git merge master origin/master

Here is a minimal testcase:

	$ git init a && cd a
	$ echo a >a && git add a
	$ git commit -minitial
	$ echo b >a && git add a
	$ git commit -msecond
	$ git checkout master^

	$ git merge master master
	Fast-forwarding to: master
	Already up-to-date with master
	Merge made by the 'octopus' strategy.
	 a |    2 +-
	  1 files changed, 1 insertions(+), 1 deletions(-)

	$ git cat-file commit HEAD
	tree eebfed94e75e7760540d1485c740902590a00332
	parent bd679e85202280b263e20a57639a142fa14c2c64
	author Michał Kiedrowicz <michal.kiedrowicz@gmail.com> 1329132996 +0100
	committer Michał Kiedrowicz <michal.kiedrowicz@gmail.com> 1329132996 +0100

	Merge branches 'master' and 'master' into HEAD
Signed-off-by: NMichał Kiedrowicz <michal.kiedrowicz@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: NJunio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>

* maint-1.7.8:
  Documentation/gitweb: trivial English fixes
  fetch/receive: remove over-pessimistic connectivity check

* jc/maint-verify-objects-remove-pessimism:
  fetch/receive: remove over-pessimistic connectivity check

* dw/gitweb-doc-grammo:
  Documentation/gitweb: trivial English fixes

* tr/cache-tree:
  t0090: be prepared that 'wc -l' writes leading blanks
  reset: update cache-tree data when appropriate
  commit: write cache-tree data when writing index anyway
  Refactor cache_tree_update idiom from commit
  Test the current state of the cache-tree optimization
  Add test-scrap-cache-tree

* cb/maint-t5541-make-server-port-portable:
  t5541: check error message against the real port number used
  remote-curl: Fix push status report when all branches fail

* cn/maint-rev-list-doc:
  Documentation: use {asterisk} in rev-list-options.txt when needed

* tr/maint-bundle-boundary:
  bundle: keep around names passed to add_pending_object()
  t5510: ensure we stay in the toplevel test dir
  t5510: refactor bundle->pack conversion

* tr/maint-bundle-long-subject:
  t5704: match tests to modern style
  strbuf: improve strbuf_get*line documentation
  bundle: use a strbuf to scan the log for boundary commits
  bundle: put strbuf_readline_fd in strbuf.c with adjustments

* ph/rerere-doc:
  rerere: Document 'rerere remaining'

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

* jc/maint-merge-autoedit:
  merge: backport GIT_MERGE_AUTOEDIT support

Signed-off-by: NHeiko Voigt <hvoigt@hvoigt.net>
Signed-off-by: NJunio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>

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

* jn/maint-fast-import-empty-ls:
  fast-import: don't allow 'ls' of path with empty components
  fast-import: leakfix for 'ls' of dirty trees

* ph/rerere-doc:
  rerere: Document 'rerere remaining'

* ms/maint-config-error-at-eol-linecount:
  config: report errors at the EOL with correct line number

All of the other options were included in the synopsis, so it makes
sense to include these as well.
Signed-off-by: NMark Lodato <lodatom@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: NJunio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>

Previously GIT_EDITOR was not listed in git(1) "Environment Variables" section,
which could be very confusing to users. Include it in "other" subsection along
with a link to git-var(1), since that is the page that fully describes all
places where editor can be set and also their preference order.

Also, git-var(1) did not say that hardcoded fallback 'vi' may have been changed
at build time. A user could be puzzled if 'nano' pops up even when none of the
mentioned environment vars or config.editor are set. Clarify this.

Ideally, the build system should be changed to reflect the chosen fallback
editor when creating the man pages. Not sure if that is even possible though.
Signed-off-by: NRodrigo Silva (MestreLion) <linux@rodrigosilva.com>
Signed-off-by: NJunio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>

An alphabetic ordered list (a.) is converted to numerical in
the man page (1.) so context comments naming 'a' were confusing,
fix that by not using ordered list notation for 'a' anb 'b' items.
Signed-off-by: NNelson Benitez Leon <nelsonjesus.benitez@seap.minhap.es>
Signed-off-by: NJunio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>

Change "it's" to "its" where a possessive is intended.  Also add two
missing "the" that were noticed by Ben Walton.
Signed-off-by: NDavid Waitzman <djw@bbn.com>

* maint-1.7.8:
  t/Makefile: Use $(sort ...) explicitly where needed
  gitweb: Fix actionless dispatch for non-existent objects
  i18n of multi-line advice messages

Even though 1.7.9.x series does not open the editor by default
when merging in general, it does do so in one occassion: when
merging an annotated tag. And worse yet, there is no good way
for older scripts to decline this.

Backport the support for GIT_MERGE_AUTOEDIT environment variable
from 1.7.10 track to help those stuck on 1.7.9.x maintenance
track.
Signed-off-by: NJunio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>

* ks/sort-wildcard-in-makefile:
  t/Makefile: Use $(sort ...) explicitly where needed

* jc/advise-i18n:
  i18n of multi-line advice messages

* jn/gitweb-unspecified-action:
  gitweb: Fix actionless dispatch for non-existent objects

Git 1.7.8 introduced an object and history re-validation step after
"fetch" or "push" causes new history to be added to a receiving
repository. This is to protect a malicious server or pushing client from
corrupting the repository by taking advantage of an existing corrupt
object that is unconnected to existing history.

But this check is way over-pessimistic.  During "fetch" or "receive-pack"
(the server side of "push"), unpack-objects and index-pack already
validate individual objects that are received, and the only thing we would
want to catch are corrupted objects that already happen to exist in our
repository but are not referenced from our refs.  Such objects must have
been written by an earlier run of our codepaths that write out loose
objects or packfiles, and they must have done the validation of individual
objects when they did so.  The only thing left to worry about is the
connectivity integrity, which can be checked with "rev-list --objects",
which is much cheaper.  We have been paying the 5x to 8x runtime overhead
the --verify-objects often adds for no real gain.

Revert check_everything_connected() not to use this over-pessimistic
check.

Credit goes to Nguyễn Thái Ngọc Duy, who originally identified the
performance regression and endured multiple rounds of reviews to fix it.
Signed-off-by: NJunio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>

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

"git bundle" did not record boundary commits correctly when there
are many of them.

By Thomas Rast
* tr/maint-bundle-boundary:
  bundle: keep around names passed to add_pending_object()
  t5510: ensure we stay in the toplevel test dir
  t5510: refactor bundle->pack conversion

"git diff-index" and its friends at the plumbing level showed the
"diff --git" header and nothing else for a path whose cached stat
info is dirty without actual difference when asked to produce a
patch. This was a longstanding bug that we could have fixed long
time ago.

By Junio C Hamano
* jc/maint-diff-patch-header:
  diff -p: squelch "diff --git" header for stat-dirty paths
  t4011: illustrate "diff-index -p" on stat-dirty paths
  t4011: modernise style

"gitweb" did use quotemeta() to prepare search string when asked to
do a fixed-string project search, but did not use it by mistake and
used the user-supplied string instead.

By Jakub Narebski
* jn/maint-do-not-match-with-unsanitized-searchtext:
  gitweb: Fix fixed string (non-regexp) project search

The code to synthesize the fake ancestor tree used by 3-way merge
fallback in "git am" was not prepared to read a patch created with
a non-standard -p<num> value.

* jc/am-3-nonstandard-popt:
  test: "am -3" can accept non-standard -p<num>
  am -3: allow nonstandard -p<num> option

A section in a config file with a missing "]" reports the next line
as bad, same goes to a value with a missing end quote.

This happens because the error is not detected until the end of the
line, when line number is already increased. Fix this by decreasing
line number by one for these cases.
Signed-off-by: NMartin Stenberg <martin@gnutiken.se>
Signed-off-by: NJunio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>

As the fast-import manual explains:

	The value of <path> must be in canonical form. That is it must
	not:
	. contain an empty directory component (e.g. foo//bar is invalid),
	. end with a directory separator (e.g. foo/ is invalid),
	. start with a directory separator (e.g. /foo is invalid),

Unfortunately the "ls" command accepts these invalid syntaxes and
responds by declaring that the indicated path is missing.  This is too
subtle and causes importers to silently misbehave; better to error out
so the operator knows what's happening.

The C, R, and M commands already error out for such paths.
Reported-by: NAndrew Sayers <andrew-git@pileofstuff.org>
Analysis-by: NDavid Barr <davidbarr@google.com>
Signed-off-by: NJonathan Nieder <jrnieder@gmail.com>

When the chosen directory has changed since it was last written to
pack, "tree_content_get" makes a deep copy of its content to scribble
on while computing the tree name, which we forgot to free.

This leak has been present since the 'ls' command was introduced in
v1.7.5-rc0~3^2~33 (fast-import: add 'ls' command, 2010-12-02).
Signed-off-by: NJonathan Nieder <jrnieder@gmail.com>

This adds the 'remaining' command to the documentation of
'git rerere'. This command was added in ac49f5ca (Feb 16 2011;
Martin von Zweigbergk <martin.von.zweigbergk@gmail.com>) but
it was never documented.

Touch up the other rerere commands to reduce noise.

First noticed by Vincent van Ravesteijn.
Signed-off-by: NPhil Hord <phil.hord@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: NJunio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>

Use $search_regexp, where regex metacharacters are quoted, for
searching projects list, rather than $searchtext, which contains
original search term.
Reported-by: NRamsay Jones <ramsay@ramsay1.demon.co.uk>
Signed-off-by: NJakub Narebski <jnareb@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: NJunio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>

OS X's sed and grep would complain with (respectively)

  sed: 1: "/^-/{p;q}": extra characters at the end of q command
  grep: Regular expression too big

For sed, use an explicit ; to terminate the q command.

For grep, spell the "40 hex digits" explicitly in the regex, which
should be safe as other tests already use this and we haven't got
breakage reports on OS X about them.
Signed-off-by: NThomas Rast <trast@inf.ethz.ch>
Signed-off-by: NJunio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>

By Thomas Rast
* maint-1.7.8:
  Document the --histogram diff option