Sometimes users are given a hash of an object and they want to
identify it further (ex.: Use verify-pack to find the largest blobs,
but what are these? or [1])

One might be tempted to extend git-describe to also work with blobs,
such that `git describe <blob-id>` gives a description as
'<commit-ish>:<path>'.  This was implemented at [2]; as seen by the sheer
number of responses (>110), it turns out this is tricky to get right.
The hard part to get right is picking the correct 'commit-ish' as that
could be the commit that (re-)introduced the blob or the blob that
removed the blob; the blob could exist in different branches.

Junio hinted at a different approach of solving this problem, which this
patch implements. Teach the diff machinery another flag for restricting
the information to what is shown. For example:

  $ ./git log --oneline --find-object=v2.0.0:Makefile
  b2feb64309 Revert the whole "ask curl-config" topic for now
  47fbfded53 i18n: only extract comments marked with "TRANSLATORS:"

we observe that the Makefile as shipped with 2.0 was appeared in
v1.9.2-471-g47fbfded53 and in v2.0.0-rc1-5-gb2feb6430b.  The
reason why these commits both occur prior to v2.0.0 are evil
merges that are not found using this new mechanism.

[1] https://stackoverflow.com/questions/223678/which-commit-has-this-blob
[2] https://public-inbox.org/git/20171028004419.10139-1-sbeller@google.com/

Signed-off-by: Stefan Beller <sbeller@google.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>

The set of paths output from "git status --ignored" was tied
closely with its "--untracked=<mode>" option, but now it can be
controlled more flexibly.  Most notably, a directory that is
ignored because it is listed to be ignored in the ignore/exclude
mechanism can be handled differently from a directory that ends up
to be ignored only because all files in it are ignored.

* jm/status-ignored-files-list:
  status: test ignored modes
  status: document options to show matching ignored files
  status: report matching ignored and normal untracked
  status: add option to show ignored files differently

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

MinGW updates.

* js/mingw-redirect-std-handles:
  mingw: document the standard handle redirection
  mingw: optionally redirect stderr/stdout via the same handle
  mingw: add experimental feature to redirect standard handles

MinGW updates.

* js/wincred-empty-cred:
  wincred: handle empty username/password correctly
  t0302: check helper can handle empty credentials

MinGW updates.

* js/mingw-full-version-in-resources:
  mingw: include the full version information in the resources

The credential helper for libsecret (in contrib/) has been improved
to allow possibly prompting the end user to unlock secrets that are
currently locked (otherwise the secrets may not be loaded).

* dk/libsecret-unlock-to-load-fix:
  credential-libsecret: unlock locked secrets

* ks/mailmap:
  mailmap: use Kaartic Sivaraam's new address

Correct start-up sequence so that a repository could be placed
immediately under the root directory again (which was broken at
around Git 2.13).

* js/early-config:
  setup: avoid double slashes when looking for HEAD

TravisCI build updates.

* sg/travis-fixes:
  travis-ci: don't build Git for the static analysis job
  travis-ci: fix running P4 and Git LFS tests in Linux build jobs