Merge commit 'v1.6.0' into jc/checkout-reflog-fix

* commit 'v1.6.0': (2063 commits)
  GIT 1.6.0
  git-p4: chdir now properly sets PWD environment variable in msysGit
  Improve error output of git-rebase
  t9300: replace '!' with test_must_fail
  Git.pm: Make File::Spec and File::Temp requirement lazy
  Documentation: document the pager.* configuration setting
  git-stash: improve synopsis in help and manual page
  Makefile: building git in cygwin 1.7.0
  git-am: ignore --binary option
  bash-completion: Add non-command git help files to bash-completion
  Fix t3700 on filesystems which do not support question marks in names
  Utilise our new p4_read_pipe and p4_write_pipe wrappers
  Add p4 read_pipe and write_pipe wrappers
  bash completion: Add '--merge' long option for 'git log'
  bash completion: Add completion for 'git mergetool'
  git format-patch documentation: clarify what --cover-letter does
  bash completion: 'git apply' should use 'fix' not 'strip'
  t5304-prune: adjust file mtime based on system time rather than file mtime
  test-parse-options: use appropriate cast in length_callback
  Fix escaping of glob special characters in pathspecs
  ...

Conflicts:
	builtin-checkout.c

1 files changed, 3 insertions, 2 deletions

diff --git a/builtin-merge-file.c b/builtin-merge-file.c
index 58deb62ac0..3605960c2d 100644
--- a/builtin-merge-file.c
+++ b/builtin-merge-file.c
@@ -46,7 +46,7 @@ int cmd_merge_file(int argc, const char **argv, const char *prefix)
 	}
 
 	ret = xdl_merge(mmfs + 1, mmfs + 0, names[0], mmfs + 2, names[2],
-			&xpp, XDL_MERGE_ZEALOUS, &result);
+			&xpp, XDL_MERGE_ZEALOUS_ALNUM, &result);
 
 	for (i = 0; i < 3; i++)
 		free(mmfs[i].ptr);
@@ -57,7 +57,8 @@ int cmd_merge_file(int argc, const char **argv, const char *prefix)
 
 		if (!f)
 			ret = error("Could not open %s for writing", filename);
-		else if (fwrite(result.ptr, result.size, 1, f) != 1)
+		else if (result.size &&
+			 fwrite(result.ptr, result.size, 1, f) != 1)
 			ret = error("Could not write to %s", filename);
 		else if (fclose(f))
 			ret = error("Could not close %s", filename);