Add a new command "git check-ignore" for debugging .gitignore
files.

The variable names may want to get cleaned up but that can be done
in-tree.

* as/check-ignore:
  clean.c, ls-files.c: respect encapsulation of exclude_list_groups
  t0008: avoid brace expansion
  add git-check-ignore sub-command
  setup.c: document get_pathspec()
  add.c: extract new die_if_path_beyond_symlink() for reuse
  add.c: extract check_path_for_gitlink() from treat_gitlinks() for reuse
  pathspec.c: rename newly public functions for clarity
  add.c: move pathspec matchers into new pathspec.c for reuse
  add.c: remove unused argument from validate_pathspec()
  dir.c: improve docs for match_pathspec() and match_pathspec_depth()
  dir.c: provide clear_directory() for reclaiming dir_struct memory
  dir.c: keep track of where patterns came from
  dir.c: use a single struct exclude_list per source of excludes

Conflicts:
	builtin/ls-files.c
	dir.c

This works in a similar manner to git-check-attr.

Thanks to Jeff King and Junio C Hamano for the idea:
http://thread.gmane.org/gmane.comp.version-control.git/108671/focus=108815

Signed-off-by: Adam Spiers <git@adamspiers.org>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>

Git takes pathspec arguments in many places to limit the
scope of an operation. These pathspecs are treated not as
literal paths, but as glob patterns that can be fed to
fnmatch. When a user is giving a specific pattern, this is a
nice feature.

However, when programatically providing pathspecs, it can be
a nuisance. For example, to find the latest revision which
modified "$foo", one can use "git rev-list -- $foo". But if
"$foo" contains glob characters (e.g., "f*"), it will
erroneously match more entries than desired. The caller
needs to quote the characters in $foo, and even then, the
results may not be exactly the same as with a literal
pathspec. For instance, the depth checks in
match_pathspec_depth do not kick in if we match via fnmatch.

This patch introduces a global command-line option (i.e.,
one for "git" itself, not for specific commands) to turn
this behavior off. It also has a matching environment
variable, which can make it easier if you are a script or
porcelain interface that is going to issue many such
commands.

This option cannot turn off globbing for particular
pathspecs. That could eventually be done with a ":(noglob)"
magic pathspec prefix. However, that level of granularity is
more cumbersome to use for many cases, and doing ":(noglob)"
right would mean converting the whole codebase to use
"struct pathspec", as the usual "const char **pathspec"
cannot represent extra per-item flags.

Signed-off-by: Jeff King <peff@peff.net>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>

This is used by diff-no-index.c, part of libgit.a while it stays in
builtin/diff.c. Move it to diff.c so that we won't get undefined
reference if a program that uses libgit.a happens to pull it in.

While at it, move check_pager from git.c to pager.c. It makes more
sense there and pager.c is also part of libgit.a

Signed-off-by: Nguyễn Thái Ngọc Duy <pclouds@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Jeff King <peff@peff.net>

The credential API is in C, and not available to scripting languages.
Expose the functionalities of the API by wrapping them into a new
plumbing command "git credentials".

In other words, replace the internal "test-credential" by an official Git
command.

Most documentation writen by: Jeff King <peff@peff.net>
Signed-off-by: Pavel Volek <Pavel.Volek@ensimag.imag.fr>
Signed-off-by: Kim Thuat Nguyen <Kim-Thuat.Nguyen@ensimag.imag.fr>
Signed-off-by: Javier Roucher Iglesias <Javier.Roucher-Iglesias@ensimag.imag.fr>
Signed-off-by: Matthieu Moy <Matthieu.Moy@imag.fr>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>

The global git_version_string currently lives in git.c, but
doesn't have anything to do with the git wrapper. Let's move
it into its own file, where it will be more appropriate to
build more version-related functions.

Signed-off-by: Jeff King <peff@peff.net>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>

A couple of commands learn --column option to produce columnar output.

By Nguyễn Thái Ngọc Duy (9) and Zbigniew Jędrzejewski-Szmek (1)
* nd/columns:
  tag: add --column
  column: support piping stdout to external git-column process
  status: add --column
  branch: add --column
  help: reuse print_columns() for help -a
  column: add dense layout support
  t9002: work around shells that are unable to set COLUMNS to 1
  column: add columnar layout
  Stop starting pager recursively
  Add column layout skeleton and git-column

A column option string consists of many token separated by either
a space or a  comma. A token belongs to one of three groups:

 - enabling: always, never and auto
 - layout mode: currently plain (which does not layout at all)
 - other future tuning flags

git-column can be used to pipe output to from a command that wants
column layout, but not to mess with its own output code. Simpler output
code can be changed to use column layout code directly.

Thanks-to: Ramsay Jones <ramsay@ramsay1.demon.co.uk>
Signed-off-by: Nguyễn Thái Ngọc Duy <pclouds@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>

This patch also marks most common commands' synopsis for translation
so that "git help" gives a friendly listing.

Signed-off-by: Nguyễn Thái Ngọc Duy <pclouds@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>

Several git commands are so-called dashed externals, that is commands
executed as a child process of the git wrapper command. If the git
wrapper is killed by a signal, the child process will continue to run.
This is different from internal commands, which always die with the git
wrapper command.

Enable the recently introduced cleanup mechanism for child processes in
order to make dashed externals act more in line with internal commands.

Signed-off-by: Clemens Buchacher <drizzd@aon.at>
Acked-by: Jeff King <peff@peff.net>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>