Merge branch 'jc/request-pull-match-tagname' into maint

"git request-pull $url dev" when the tip of "dev" branch was tagged
with "ext4-for-linus" used the contents from the tag in the output
but still asked the "dev" branch to be pulled, not the tag.

* jc/request-pull-match-tagname:
  request-pull: really favor a matching tag
Merge branch 'jc/ls-files-i-dir' into maint

"git ls-files --exclude=t -i" did not consider anything under t/ as
excluded, as it did not pay attention to exclusion of leading paths
while walking the index.  Other two users of excluded() are also
updated.

* jc/ls-files-i-dir:
  dir.c: make excluded() file scope static
  unpack-trees.c: use path_excluded() in check_ok_to_remove()
  builtin/add.c: use path_excluded()
  path_excluded(): update API to less cache-entry centric
  ls-files -i: micro-optimize path_excluded()
  ls-files -i: pay attention to exclusion of leading paths
Merge branch 'jc/bundle-complete-notice' into maint

Running "git bundle verify" on a bundle that records a complete
history said "it requires these 0 commits".

* jc/bundle-complete-notice:
  tweak "bundle verify" of a complete history
Merge branch 'jc/ustar-checksum-is-unsigned' into maint

"git archive" incorrectly computed the header checksum; the symptom
was observed only when using pathnames with hi-bit set.

* jc/ustar-checksum-is-unsigned:
  archive: ustar header checksum is computed unsigned
Merge branch 'cn/cherry-pick-range-docs' into maint

The documentation for "git cherry-pick A B..C" was misleading.

* cn/cherry-pick-range-docs:
  git-cherry-pick.txt: clarify the use of revision range notation
  Documentation: --no-walk is no-op if range is specified
Merge branch 'mm/verify-filename-fix' into maint

"git diff COPYING HEAD:COPYING" gave a nonsense error message that
claimed that the treeish HEAD did not have COPYING in it.

* mm/verify-filename-fix:
  verify_filename(): ask the caller to chose the kind of diagnosis
  sha1_name: do not trigger detailed diagnosis for file arguments
Merge branch 'jk/diff-no-index-pager' into maint

"git diff --no-index" did not work with pagers correctly.

* jk/diff-no-index-pager:
  do not run pager with diff --no-index --quiet
  fix pager.diff with diff --no-index
Merge branch 'hv/submodule-update-nuke-submodules' into maint

"git add" allows adding a regular file to the path where a submodule
used to exist, but "git update-index" did not allow an equivalent
operation to Porcelain writers.

* hv/submodule-update-nuke-submodules:
  update-index: allow overwriting existing submodule index entries
Merge branch 'jc/rev-list-simplify-merges-first-parent' into maint

When "git log" gets "--simplify-merges/by-decoration" together with
"--first-parent", the combination of these options makes the
simplification logic to use in-core commit objects that haven't been
examined for relevance, either producing incorrect result or taking
too long to produce any output.  Teach the simplification logic to
ignore commits that the first-parent traversal logic ignored when
both are in effect to work around the issue.

* jc/rev-list-simplify-merges-first-parent:
  revision: ignore side parents while running simplify-merges
  revision: note the lack of free() in simplify_merges()
  revision: "simplify" options imply topo-order sort
Merge branch 'nd/clone-single-fix' into maint

"git clone --single-branch" to clone a single branch did not limit
the cloning to the specified branch.

* nd/clone-single-fix:
  clone: fix ref selection in --single-branch --branch=xxx
Merge branch 'th/diff-no-index-fixes' into maint

"git diff --no-index" did not correctly handle relative paths and
did not correctly give exit codes when run under "--quiet" option.

* th/diff-no-index-fixes:
  diff-no-index: exit(1) if 'diff --quiet <repo file> <external file>' finds changes
  diff: handle relative paths in no-index
Merge branch 'rj/platform-pread-may-be-thread-unsafe' into maint

On Cygwin, the platform pread(2) is not thread safe, just like our own
compat/ emulation, and cannot be used in the index-pack program.
Makefile variable NO_THREAD_SAFE_PREAD can be defined to avoid use of
this function in a threaded program.

* rj/platform-pread-may-be-thread-unsafe:
  index-pack: Disable threading on cygwin
Merge branch 'jc/maint-blame-unique-abbrev' into maint

"git blame" did not try to make sure that the abbreviated commit
object names in its output are unique.

* jc/maint-blame-unique-abbrev:
  blame: compute abbreviation width that ensures uniqueness
Git 1.7.11.2

Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Sync with 1.7.11.2
Reduce draft release notes to 1.7.12

Many "fixes since 1.7.11" items are now in the maintenance track

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