Further merging down for 1.7.12.1

We will wait for a handful of other fixes that have graduated to the 'master' for 1.8.0 to be tested in the wild and then tag 1.7.12.1: . mz/cherry-pick-cmdline-order . jk/maint-quiet-is-synonym-to-s-in-log . jk/maint-http-half-auth-push . jc/apply-binary-p0 . jk/config-warn-on-inaccessible-paths . kk/maint-for-each-ref-multi-sort Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>

Junio C Hamano committed Sep 11, 2012 at 11:27 UTC cbd6b089e821a4ff35970531b26e64a2e621ff04
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@@ -25,12 +25,25 @@ Fixes since v1.7.12
25 * A utility shell function test_seq has been added as a replacement
26 for the 'seq' utility found on some platforms.
27
28 + * Compatibility wrapper to learn the maximum number of file
29 + descriptors we can open around sysconf(_SC_OPEN_MAX) and
30 + getrlimit(RLIMIT_NO_FILE) has been introduced for portability.
31 +
32 + * We used curl_easy_strerror() without checking version of cURL,
33 + breaking the build for versions before curl 7.12.0.
34 +
35 + * Code to work around MacOS X UTF-8 gotcha has been cleaned up.
36 +
37 * Fallback 'getpass' implementation made unportable use of stdio API.
38
39 * "git commit --amend" let the user edit the log message and then
40 died when the human-readable committer name was given
41 insufficiently by getpwent(3).
42
43 + * Some capabilities were asked by fetch-pack even when upload-pack
44 + did not advertise that they are available. fetch-pack has been
45 + fixed not to do so.
46 +
47 * "git prune" without "-v" used to warn about leftover temporary
48 files (which is an indication of an earlier aborted operation).
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