"git difftool <paths>..." started in a subdirectory failed to
interpret the paths relative to that directory, which has been
fixed.

* jk/difftool-in-subdir:
  difftool: use Git::* functions instead of passing around state
  difftool: avoid $GIT_DIR and $GIT_WORK_TREE
  difftool: fix argument handling in subdirs

Not-so-recent rewrite of "git am" that started making internal
calls into the commit machinery had an unintended regression, in
that no matter how many seconds it took to apply many patches, the
resulting committer timestamp for the resulting commits were all
the same.

* jk/reset-ident-time-per-commit:
  am: reset cached ident date for each patch

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

A minor documentation update.

This was split out from a stalled jh/clean-smudge-annex topic
before discarding it.

* jh/clean-smudge-f-doc:
  clarify %f documentation

* rs/use-strbuf-addstr:
  use strbuf_addstr() instead of strbuf_addf() with "%s"
  use strbuf_addstr() for adding constant strings to a strbuf

* cp/completion-clone-recurse-submodules:
  completion: add option '--recurse-submodules' to 'git clone'

Test modernization.

* jk/t4205-cleanup:
  t4205: indent here documents
  t4205: drop top-level &&-chaining

The API documentation for hashmap was unclear if hashmap_entry
can be safely discarded without any other consideration.  State
that it is safe to do so.

* jc/hashmap-doc-init:
  hashmap: clarify that hashmap_entry can safely be discarded

Squelch compiler warnings for netmalloc (in compat/) library.

* js/nedmalloc-gcc6-warnings:
  nedmalloc: work around overzealous GCC 6 warning
  nedmalloc: fix misleading indentation

FreeBSD can lie when asked mtime of a directory, which made the
untracked cache code to fall back to a slow-path, which in turn
caused tests in t7063 to fail because it wanted to verify the
behaviour of the fast-path.

* nd/fbsd-lazy-mtime:
  t7063: work around FreeBSD's lazy mtime update feature

The characters in the label shown for tags/refs for commits in
"gitweb" output are now properly escaped for proper HTML output.

* ab/gitweb-link-html-escape:
  gitweb: escape link body in format_ref_marker

Windows port was failing some tests in t4130, due to the lack of
inum in the returned values by its lstat(2) emulation.

* js/t4130-rename-without-ino:
  t4130: work around Windows limitation

"git -c grep.patternType=extended log --basic-regexp" misbehaved
because the internal API to access the grep machinery was not
designed well.

* jc/grep-commandline-vs-configuration:
  grep: further simplify setting the pattern type

There is an optimization used in "git diff $treeA $treeB" to borrow
an already checked-out copy in the working tree when it is known to
be the same as the blob being compared, expecting that open/mmap of
such a file is faster than reading it from the object store, which
involves inflating and applying delta.  This however kicked in even
when the checked-out copy needs to go through the convert-to-git
conversion (including the clean filter), which defeats the whole
point of the optimization.  The optimization has been disabled when
the conversion is necessary.

* jk/diff-do-not-reuse-wtf-needs-cleaning:
  diff: do not reuse worktree files that need "clean" conversion

The build procedure for "git persistent-https" helper (in contrib/)
has been updated so that it can be built with more recent versions
of Go.

* pm/build-persistent-https-with-recent-go:
  contrib/persistent-https: use Git version for build label
  contrib/persistent-https: update ldflags syntax for Go 1.7+

"git merge" in Git v2.9 was taught to forbid merging an unrelated
lines of history by default, but that is exactly the kind of thing
the "--rejoin" mode of "git subtree" (in contrib/) wants to do.
"git subtree" has been taught to use the "--allow-unrelated-histories"
option to override the default.

* da/subtree-2.9-regression:
  subtree: fix "git subtree split --rejoin"
  t7900-subtree.sh: fix quoting and broken && chains

"git commit --help" said "--no-verify" is only about skipping the
pre-commit hook, and failed to say that it also skipped the
commit-msg hook.

* os/no-verify-skips-commit-msg-too:
  commit: describe that --no-verify skips the commit-msg hook in the help text

The use of strbuf in "git rm" to build filename to remove was a bit
suboptimal, which has been fixed.

* rs/rm-strbuf-optim:
  rm: reuse strbuf for all remove_dir_recursively() calls

Users of the parse_options_concat() API function need to allocate
extra slots in advance and fill them with OPT_END() when they want
to decide the set of supported options dynamically, which makes the
code error-prone and hard to read.  This has been corrected by tweaking
the API to allocate and return a new copy of "struct option" array.

* jk/parse-options-concat:
  parse_options: allocate a new array when concatenating

Allow http daemon tests in Travis CI tests.

* ls/travis-enable-httpd-tests:
  travis-ci: enable web server tests t55xx on Linux

Existing autoconf generated test for the need to link with pthread
library did not check all the functions from pthread libraries;
recent FreeBSD has some functions in libc but not others, and we
mistakenly thought linking with libc is enough when it is not.

* ew/autoconf-pthread:
  configure.ac: stronger test for pthread linkage

The .c/.h sources are marked as such in our .gitattributes file so
that "git diff -W" and friends would work better.

* rs/help-c-source-with-gitattributes:
  .gitattributes: set file type for C files

"git status" learned to suggest "merge --abort" during a conflicted
merge, just like it already suggests "rebase --abort" during a
conflicted rebase.

* mm/status-suggest-merge-abort:
  status: suggest 'git merge --abort' when appropriate

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

A doc update.

* sb/pack-protocol-doc-nak:
  Documentation: pack-protocol correct NAK response

Code cleanup.

* rs/submodule-config-code-cleanup:
  submodule-config: fix test binary crashing when no arguments given
  submodule-config: combine early return code into one goto
  submodule-config: passing name reference for .gitmodule blobs
  submodule-config: use explicit empty string instead of strbuf in config_from()

A comment update for a topic that was merged to Git v2.8.

* sb/submodule-deinit-all:
  submodule deinit: remove outdated comment

Code simplification.

* rs/worktree-use-strbuf-absolute-path:
  worktree: use strbuf_add_absolute_path() directly

Belated doc update for a feature added in v1.8.5.

* jc/doc-diff-filter-exclude:
  diff: document diff-filter exclusion

Build clean-up.

* nd/test-helpers:
  t/test-lib.sh: fix running tests with --valgrind
  Makefile: use VCSSVN_LIB to refer to svn library
  Makefile: drop extra dependencies for test helpers

Code cleanup.

* rs/use-strbuf-addbuf:
  strbuf: avoid calling strbuf_grow() twice in strbuf_addbuf()
  use strbuf_addbuf() for appending a strbuf to another

Code simplification.

* lf/recv-sideband-cleanup:
  sideband.c: small optimization of strbuf usage
  sideband.c: refactor recv_sideband()

Grammofix.

* ah/unpack-trees-advice-messages:
  unpack-trees: fix English grammar in do-this-before-that messages

A small internal API cleanup.

* lf/sideband-returns-void:
  upload-pack.c: make send_client_data() return void
  sideband.c: make send_sideband() return void

Code clean-up.

* jk/send-pack-stdio:
  write_or_die: remove the unused write_or_whine() function
  send-pack: use buffered I/O to talk to pack-objects

Code clean-up.

* pb/commit-editmsg-path:
  builtin/commit.c: memoize git-path for COMMIT_EDITMSG

Recent FreeBSD stopped making perl available at /usr/bin/perl;
switch the default the built-in path to /usr/local/bin/perl on not
too ancient FreeBSD releases.

* ew/find-perl-on-freebsd-in-local:
  config.mak.uname: correct perl path on FreeBSD

Recent update to "git daemon" tries to enable the socket-level
KEEPALIVE, but when it is spawned via inetd, the standard input
file descriptor may not necessarily be connected to a socket.
Suppress an ENOTSOCK error from setsockopt().

* ew/daemon-socket-keepalive:
  Windows: add missing definition of ENOTSOCK
  daemon: ignore ENOTSOCK from setsockopt

"git pack-objects" and "git index-pack" mostly operate with off_t
when talking about the offset of objects in a packfile, but there
were a handful of places that used "unsigned long" to hold that
value, leading to an unintended truncation.

* nd/pack-ofs-4gb-limit:
  fsck: use streaming interface for large blobs in pack
  pack-objects: do not truncate result in-pack object size on 32-bit systems
  index-pack: correct "offset" type in unpack_entry_data()
  index-pack: report correct bad object offsets even if they are large
  index-pack: correct "len" type in unpack_data()
  sha1_file.c: use type off_t* for object_info->disk_sizep
  pack-objects: pass length to check_pack_crc() without truncation

"git notes merge" had a code to see if a path exists (and fails if
it does) and then open the path for writing (when it doesn't).
Replace it with open with O_EXCL.

* rs/notes-merge-no-toctou:
  notes-merge: use O_EXCL to avoid overwriting existing files