Merge branch 'maint-1.6.4' into maint-1.6.5

* maint-1.6.4: Fix mis-backport of t7002 base85: Make the code more obvious instead of explaining the non-obvious base85: encode_85() does not use the decode table base85 debug code: Fix length byte calculation checkout -m: do not try to fall back to --merge from an unborn branch branch: die explicitly why when calling "git branch [-a|-r] branchname". textconv: stop leaking file descriptors commit: --cleanup is a message option git count-objects: handle packs bigger than 4G t7102: make the test fail if one of its check fails