* rs/blame-refactor:
  blame: simplify prepare_lines()
  blame: factor out get_next_line()

* pb/trim-trailing-spaces:
  t0008: do not depend on 'echo' handling backslashes specially

* mc/doc-submodule-sync-recurse:
  submodule: document "sync --recursive"

* sp/complete-ext-alias:
  completion: handle '!f() { ... }; f' and "!sh -c '...' -" aliases

* mc/git-p4-prepare-p4-only:
  git-p4: fix submit in non --prepare-p4-only mode

* jk/repack-pack-writebitmaps-config:
  t7700: drop explicit --no-pack-kept-objects from .keep test
  repack: introduce repack.writeBitmaps config option
  repack: simplify handling of --write-bitmap-index
  pack-objects: stop respecting pack.writebitmaps

Some subcommands do not want to be aliased because of the side
effects that happens while the definitions of the aliases are looked
up from configuration system.

* nd/init-restore-env:
  git potty: restore environments after alias expansion

Recent updates to "git repack" started to duplicate objects that
are in packfiles marked with .keep flag into the new packfile by
mistake.

* jk/repack-pack-keep-objects:
  repack: s/write_bitmap/&s/ in code
  repack: respect pack.writebitmaps
  repack: do not accidentally pack kept objects by default

* fr/sequencer-fail-with-not-one-upon-no-ff:
  sequencer: signal failed ff as an aborted, not a conflicted merge

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

* 'jc/test-lazy-prereq' (early part):
  t3419: drop unnecessary NOT_EXPENSIVE pseudo-prerequisite
  t3302: drop unnecessary NOT_EXPENSIVE pseudo-prerequisite
  t3302: do not chdir around in the primary test process
  t3302: coding style updates
  test: turn USR_BIN_TIME into a lazy prerequisite
  test: turn EXPENSIVE into a lazy prerequisite

* jc/fetch-pull-refmap:
  docs: Explain the purpose of fetch's and pull's <refspec> parameter.
  fetch: allow explicit --refmap to override configuration
  fetch doc: add a section on configured remote-tracking branches
  fetch doc: remove "short-cut" section
  fetch doc: update refspec format description
  fetch doc: on pulling multiple refspecs
  fetch doc: remove notes on outdated "mixed layout"
  fetch doc: update note on '+' in front of the refspec
  fetch doc: move FETCH_HEAD material lower and add an example
  fetch doc: update introductory part for clarity

* mt/send-email-cover-to-cc:
  t9001: avoid non-portable '\n' with sed
  test/send-email: to-cover, cc-cover tests
  git-send-email: two new options: to-cover, cc-cover

* tb/t5551-clone-notice-to-stderr:
  t5551: fix the 50,000 tag test

* rs/more-starts-with:
  Use starts_with() for C strings instead of memcmp()

* jm/api-strbuf-doc:
  api-strbuf.txt minor typos

"git log -2master" is a common typo that shows two commits starting
from whichever random branch that is not 'master' that happens to
be checked out currently.

* jc/revision-dash-count-parsing:
  revision: parse "git log -<count>" more carefully

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

Allow specifying only certain individual test pieces to be run
using a range notation (e.g. "t1234-test.sh --run='1-4 6 8 9-'").

* ib/test-selectively-run:
  t0000-*.sh: fix the GIT_SKIP_TESTS sub-tests
  test-lib: '--run' to run only specific tests
  test-lib: tests skipped by GIT_SKIP_TESTS say so
  test-lib: document short options in t/README

* ta/string-list-init:
  string-list: spell all values out that are given to a string_list initializer

* jm/dedup-test-config:
  t/t7810-grep.sh: remove duplicate test_config()

* dt/refs-check-refname-component-optim:
  refs.c: optimize check_refname_component()

* sk/test-cmp-bin:
  t5000, t5003: do not use test_cmp to compare binary files

* sh/enable-preloadindex:
  environment.c: enable core.preloadindex by default

* rs/read-ref-at:
  refs.c: change read_ref_at to use the reflog iterators

* jk/error-resolve-conflict-advice:
  error_resolve_conflict: drop quotations around operation
  error_resolve_conflict: rewrap advice message

Avoid unnecessary copy of previous contents when extending the
hashtable used in pack-objects.

* rs/pack-objects-no-unnecessary-realloc:
  pack-objects: use free()+xcalloc() instead of xrealloc()+memset()

* lt/log-auto-decorate:
  git log: support "auto" decorations

* jm/doc-wording-tweaks:
  Documentation: wording fixes in the user manual and glossary

* jm/format-patch-mail-sig:
  format-patch: add "--signature-file=<file>" option
  format-patch: make newline after signature conditional

Propagate the error messages from the webserver better to the
client coming over the HTTP transport.

* jk/http-errors:
  http: default text charset to iso-8859-1
  remote-curl: reencode http error messages
  strbuf: add strbuf_reencode helper
  http: optionally extract charset parameter from content-type
  http: extract type/subtype portion of content-type
  t5550: test display of remote http error messages
  t/lib-httpd: use write_script to copy CGI scripts
  test-lib: preserve GIT_CURL_VERBOSE from the environment

mailmap.file configuration names a pathname, hence should honor
~/path and ~user/path as its value.

* ow/config-mailmap-pathname:
  config: respect '~' and '~user' in mailmap.file

Allow remote-helper/fast-import based transport to rename the refs
while transferring the history.

* fc/remote-helper-refmap:
  transport-helper: remove unnecessary strbuf resets
  transport-helper: add support to delete branches
  fast-export: add support to delete refs
  fast-import: add support to delete refs
  transport-helper: add support to push symbolic refs
  transport-helper: add support for old:new refspec
  fast-export: add new --refspec option
  fast-export: improve argument parsing

"git gc --auto" was recently changed to run in the background to
give control back early to the end-user sitting in front of the
terminal, but it forgot that housekeeping involving reflogs should
be done without other processes competing for accesses to the refs.

* nd/daemonize-gc:
  gc --auto: do not lock refs in the background

* jm/t9138-style-fix:
  t9138-git-svn-authors-prog.sh fixups

* jm/instaweb-apache-24:
  git-instaweb: add support for Apache 2.4

"git remote rm" and "git remote prune" can involve removing many
refs at once, which is not a very efficient thing to do when very
many refs exist in the packed-refs file.

* jl/remote-rm-prune:
  remote prune: optimize "dangling symref" check/warning
  remote: repack packed-refs once when deleting multiple refs
  remote rm: delete remote configuration as the last

The completion code did not know about quite a few options that are
common between "git merge" and "git pull", and a couple of options
unique to "git merge".

* jk/complete-merge-pull:
  completion: add missing options for git-merge
  completion: add a note that merge options are shared

Like calloc(3), xcalloc() takes nmemb and then size.

* bg/xcalloc-nmemb-then-size:
  transport-helper.c: rearrange xcalloc arguments
  remote.c: rearrange xcalloc arguments
  reflog-walk.c: rearrange xcalloc arguments
  pack-revindex.c: rearrange xcalloc arguments
  notes.c: rearrange xcalloc arguments
  imap-send.c: rearrange xcalloc arguments
  http-push.c: rearrange xcalloc arguments
  diff.c: rearrange xcalloc arguments
  config.c: rearrange xcalloc arguments
  commit.c: rearrange xcalloc arguments
  builtin/remote.c: rearrange xcalloc arguments
  builtin/ls-remote.c: rearrange xcalloc arguments

submodule.*.ignore and diff.ignoresubmodules are used to ignore all
submodule changes in "diff" output, but it can be confusing to
apply these configuration values to status and commit.

This is a backward-incompatible change, but should be so in a good
way (aka bugfix).

* jl/status-added-submodule-is-never-ignored:
  commit -m: commit staged submodules regardless of ignore config
  status/commit: show staged submodules regardless of ignore config