gitignore.txt: fix documentation of "**" patterns

"**" means bold in ASCIIDOC, so we need to escape it.

Signed-off-by: Karsten Blees <blees@dcon.de>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Merge branch 'jc/revision-range-unpeel' into maint

"git rev-list --objects ^v1.0^ v1.0" gave v1.0 tag itself in the
output, but "git rev-list --objects v1.0^..v1.0" did not.

* jc/revision-range-unpeel:
  revision: do not peel tags used in range notation
Merge branch 'jk/split-broken-ident' into maint

The fall-back parsing of commit objects with broken author or
committer lines were less robust than ideal in picking up the
timestamps.

* jk/split-broken-ident:
  split_ident: parse timestamp from end of line
Merge branch 'sg/prompt-svn-remote-fix' into maint

Bash prompting code to deal with an SVN remote as an upstream
were coded in a way not supported by older Bash versions (3.x).

* sg/prompt-svn-remote-fix:
  bash prompt: don't use '+=' operator in show upstream code path
Merge branch 'mm/checkout-auto-track-fix' into maint

"git checkout topic", when there is not yet a local "topic" branch
but there is a unique remote-tracking branch for a remote "topic"
branch, pretended as if "git checkout -t -b topic remote/$r/topic"
(for that unique remote $r) was run. This hack however was not
implemented for "git checkout topic --".

* mm/checkout-auto-track-fix:
  checkout: proper error message on 'git checkout foo bar --'
  checkout: allow dwim for branch creation for "git checkout $branch --"
Merge branch 'hn/log-graph-color-octopus' into maint

Coloring around octopus merges in "log --graph" output was screwy.

* hn/log-graph-color-octopus:
  graph: fix coloring around octopus merges
Merge branch 'jk/subtree-install-fix' into maint

We did not generate HTML version of documentation to "git subtree"
in contrib/.

* jk/subtree-install-fix:
  subtree: add makefile target for html docs
Merge branch 'vd/doc-unpack-objects' into maint

The synopsis section of "git unpack-objects" documentation has been
clarified a bit.

* vd/doc-unpack-objects:
  Documentation: "pack-file" is not literal in unpack-objects
  Documentation: restore a space in unpack-objects usage
Merge branch 'sc/doc-howto-dumb-http' into maint

An ancient How-To on serving Git repositories on an HTTP server
lacked a warning that it has been mostly superseded with more
modern way.

* sc/doc-howto-dumb-http:
  doc/howto: warn about (dumb)http server document being too old
Start preparing for 1.8.4.3

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

* maint:
  Start preparing for 1.8.4.3
  gitignore.txt: fix documentation of "**" patterns
Merge branch 'jk/http-auth-redirects' into maint

We did not handle cases where http transport gets redirected during
the authorization request (e.g. from http:// to https://).

* jk/http-auth-redirects:
  http.c: Spell the null pointer as NULL
  remote-curl: rewrite base url from info/refs redirects
  remote-curl: store url as a strbuf
  remote-curl: make refs_url a strbuf
  http: update base URLs when we see redirects
  http: provide effective url to callers
  http: hoist credential request out of handle_curl_result
  http: refactor options to http_get_*
  http_request: factor out curlinfo_strbuf
  http_get_file: style fixes
Merge branch 'jc/upload-pack-send-symref' into maint

One long-standing flaw in the pack transfer protocol used by "git
clone" was that there was no way to tell the other end which branch
"HEAD" points at, and the receiving end needed to guess.  A new
capability has been defined in the pack protocol to convey this
information so that cloning from a repository with more than one
branches pointing at the same commit where the HEAD is at now
reliably sets the initial branch in the resulting repository.

* jc/upload-pack-send-symref:
  t5570: Update for clone-progress-to-stderr branch
  t5570: Update for symref capability
  clone: test the new HEAD detection logic
  connect: annotate refs with their symref information in get_remote_head()
  connect.c: make parse_feature_value() static
  upload-pack: send non-HEAD symbolic refs
  upload-pack: send symbolic ref information as capability
  upload-pack.c: do not pass confusing cb_data to mark_our_ref()
  t5505: fix "set-head --auto with ambiguous HEAD" test
Merge branch 'ap/remote-hg-unquote-cquote' into maint

A fast-import stream expresses a pathname with funny characters by
quoting them in C style; remote-hg remote helper (in contrib/)
forgot to unquote such a path.

* ap/remote-hg-unquote-cquote:
  remote-hg: unquote C-style paths when exporting
Merge branch 'jn/test-prereq-perl-doc' into maint

The interaction between use of Perl in our test suite and NO_PERL
has been clarified a bit.

* jn/test-prereq-perl-doc:
  t/README: tests can use perl even with NO_PERL
Git 1.8.4.3

Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Sync with 1.8.4.3