The second batch for 2.18

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

Junio C Hamano committed Apr 10, 2018 at 16:32 UTC 0b0cc9f86731f894cff8dd25299a9b38c254569e
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47 by assuming how "git worktree move" moves an existing worktree to a
48 different place.
49
50 + * Code clean-up for the "repository" abstraction.
51 + (merge 00a3da2a13 nd/remove-ignore-env-field later to maint).
52 +
53 + * Code to find the length to uniquely abbreviate object names based
54 + on packfile content, which is a relatively recent addtion, has been
55 + optimized to use the same fan-out table.
56 +
57 + * The mechanism to use parse-options API to automate the command line
58 + completion continues to get extended and polished.
59 +
60 Also contains various documentation updates and code clean-ups.
61
62
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74 <pathspec>, which has been fixed.
75 (merge 353278687e tg/stash-untracked-with-pathspec-fix later to maint).
76
77 + * "git tag --contains no-such-commit" gave a full list of options
78 + after giving an error message.
79 + (merge 3bb0923f06 ps/contains-id-error-message later to maint).
80 +
81 + * "diff-highlight" filter (in contrib/) learned to undertand "git log
82 + --graph" output better.
83 + (merge 4551fbba14 jk/diff-highlight-graph-fix later to maint).
84 +
85 + * when refs that do not point at committish are given, "git
86 + filter-branch" gave a misleading error messages. This has been
87 + corrected.
88 + (merge f78ab355e7 yk/filter-branch-non-committish-refs later to maint).
89 +
90 * Other minor doc, test and build updates and code cleanups.
91 + (merge 248f66ed8e nd/trace-with-env later to maint).
92 + (merge 14ced5562c ys/bisect-object-id-missing-conversion-fix later to maint).