Start merging the sixth batch for 1.8.0

Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <[email protected]>

Author: gitster

Documentation/RelNotes/1.8.0.txt

@@ -59,6 +59,7 @@ Foreign Interface
 
  * "git svn" has been updated to work with SVN 1.7.
 
+
 Performance, Internal Implementation, etc. (please report possible regressions)
 
  * Git ships with a fall-back regexp implementation for platforms with
@@ -75,6 +76,9 @@ Performance, Internal Implementation, etc. (please report possible regressions)
  * Compatibility wrapper around some mkdir(2) implementations that
    reject parameter with trailing slash has been introduced.
 
+ * Compatibility wrapper for systems that lack usable setitimer() has
+   been added.
+
  * Many internal uses of "git merge-base" equivalent were only to see
    if one commit fast-forwards to the other, which did not need the
    full set of merge bases to be computed. They have been updated to
@@ -87,6 +91,7 @@ Performance, Internal Implementation, etc. (please report possible regressions)
  * Messages given by "git <subcommand> -h" from many subcommands have
    been marked for translation.
 
+
 Also contains minor documentation updates and code clean-ups.
 
 
@@ -97,6 +102,18 @@ Unless otherwise noted, all the fixes since v1.7.12 in the
 maintenance track are contained in this release (see release notes
 to them for details).
 
+ * The subcommand in "git remote" to remove a defined remote was
+   "rm" and the command did not take a fully-spelled "remove".
+   (merge e17dba8 nd/maint-remote-remove later to maint).
+
+ * After "gitk" showed the contents of a tag, neither "Reread
+   references" nor "Reload" did not update what is shown as the
+   contents of it, when the user overwrote the tag with "git tag -f".
+
+ * "git cvsimport" did not thoroughly cleanse tag names that it
+   inferred from the names of the tags it obtained from CVS, which
+   caused "git tag" to barf and stop the import in the middle.
+
  * "git show --format='%ci'" did not give timestamp correctly for
    commits created without human readable name on "committer" line.
    (merge e27ddb6 jc/maint-ident-missing-human-name later to maint).
@@ -120,46 +137,14 @@ to them for details).
    branches were counting in bytes, not in display columns.
    (merge 1452bd6 nd/branch-v-alignment later to maint).
 
- * "git for-each-ref" did not currectly support more than one --sort
-   option.
-   (merge 3b51222 kk/maint-for-each-ref-multi-sort later to maint).
-
- * Pushing to smart HTTP server with recent Git fails without having
-   the username in the URL to force authentication, if the server is
-   configured to allow GET anonymously, while requiring authentication
-   for POST.
-   (merge b81401c jk/maint-http-half-auth-push later to maint).
-
  * When looking for $HOME/.gitconfig etc., it is OK if we cannot read
    them because they do not exist, but we did not diagnose existing
    files that we cannot read.
 
- * The synopsis said "checkout [-B branch]" to make it clear the
-   branch name is a parameter to the option, but the heading for the
-   option description was "-B::", not "-B branch::", making the
-   documentation misleading.  There may be room in documentation pages
-   of other commands for similar improvements (hint, hint).
-   (merge 45aaf03 jc/maint-doc-checkout-b-always-takes-branch-name later to maint).
-
- * "git log .." errored out saying it is both rev range and a path
-   when there is no disambiguating "--" is on the command line.
-   Update the command line parser to interpret ".." as a path in such
-   a case.
-   (merge 003c84f jc/dotdot-is-parent-directory later to maint).
-
- * "git apply -p0" did not parse pathnames on "diff --git" line
-   correctly.  This caused patches that had pathnames in no other
-   places to be mistakenly rejected (most notably, binary patch that
-   does not rename nor change mode).  Textual patches, renames or mode
-   changes have preimage and postimage pathnames in different places
-   in a form that can be parsed unambiguously and did not suffer from
-   this problem.
-   (merge 6a2abdc jc/apply-binary-p0 later to maint).
-
  * The interactive prompt "git send-email" gives was error prone. It
    asked "What e-mail address do you want to use?" with the address it
    guessed (correctly) the user would want to use in its prompt,
    tempting the user to say "y". But the response was taken as "No,
    please use 'y' as the e-mail address instead", which is most
    certainly not what the user meant.
-   (merge 51bbccf jc/send-email-reconfirm later to maint).
+   (merge 6183749 sb/send-email-reconfirm-fix later to maint).