In 31224cbdc7 (clone: recursive and reference option triggers
submodule alternates, 2016-08-17) a mechanism was added to
have submodules referenced.  It did not address _nested_
submodules, however.

This patch makes all not just the root repository, but also
all submodules (recursively) have submodule.alternateLocation
and submodule.alternateErrorStrategy configured, making Git
search for possible alternates for nested submodules as well.

As submodule's alternate target does not end in .git/objects
(rather .git/modules/qqqqqq/objects), this alternate target
path restriction for in add_possible_reference_from_superproject
relates from "*.git/objects" to just */objects".

New tests have been added to t7408-submodule-reference.

Signed-off-by: Vitaly _Vi Shukela <vi0oss@gmail.com>
Reviewed-by: Stefan Beller <sbeller@google.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>

"git archive" and "git mailinfo" stopped reading from local
configuration file with a recent update.

* jc/setup-cleanup-fix:
  archive: read local configuration
  mailinfo: read local configuration

"git rebase -i" did not work well with core.commentchar
configuration variable for two reasons, both of which have been
fixed.

* js/rebase-i-commentchar-fix:
  rebase -i: handle core.commentChar=auto
  stripspace: respect repository config
  rebase -i: highlight problems with core.commentchar

Since b9605bc4f2 ("config: only read .git/config from configured
repos", 2016-09-12), we do not read from ".git/config" unless we
know we are in a repository.  "git archive" however didn't do the
repository discovery and instead relied on the old behaviour.

Teach the command to run a "gentle" version of repository discovery
so that local configuration variables are honoured.

[jc: stole tests from peff]
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>

Since b9605bc4f2 ("config: only read .git/config from configured
repos", 2016-09-12), we do not read from ".git/config" unless we
know we are in a repository.  "git mailinfo" however didn't do the
repository discovery and instead relied on the old behaviour.  This
was mostly OK because it was merely run as a helper program by other
porcelain scripts that first chdir's up to the root of the working
tree.

Teach the command to run a "gentle" version of repository discovery
so that local configuration variables like mailinfo.scissors are
honoured.

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

The way "git stripspace" reads the configuration was not quite
kosher, in that the code forgot to probe for a possibly existing
repository (note: stripspace is designed to be usable outside the
repository as well).  It read .git/config only when it was run from
the top-level of the working tree by accident.  A recent change
b9605bc4f2 ("config: only read .git/config from configured repos",
2016-09-12) stopped reading the repository-local configuration file
".git/config" unless the repository discovery process is done, so
that .git/config is never read even when run from the top-level,
exposing the old bug more.

When rebasing interactively with a commentChar defined in the
current repository's config, the help text at the bottom of the edit
script potentially used an incorrect comment character. This was not
only funny-looking, but also resulted in tons of warnings like this
one:

	Warning: the command isn't recognized in the following line
	 - #

Signed-off-by: Johannes Schindelin <johannes.schindelin@gmx.de>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>

Code clean-up.

* jk/create-branch-remove-unused-param:
  create_branch: drop unused "head" parameter

This function used to have the caller pass in the current
value of HEAD, in order to make sure we didn't clobber HEAD.
In 55c4a6730, that logic moved to validate_new_branchname(),
which just resolves HEAD itself. The parameter to
create_branch is now unused.

Since we have to update and re-wrap the docstring describing
the parameters anyway, let's take this opportunity to break
it out into a list, which makes it easier to find the
parameters.

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

Code simplification.

* rs/commit-pptr-simplify:
  commit: simplify building parents list

The smudge/clean filter API expect an external process is spawned
to filter the contents for each path that has a filter defined.  A
new type of "process" filter API has been added to allow the first
request to run the filter for a path to spawn a single process, and
all filtering need is served by this single process for multiple
paths, reducing the process creation overhead.

* ls/filter-process:
  contrib/long-running-filter: add long running filter example
  convert: add filter.<driver>.process option
  convert: prepare filter.<driver>.process option
  convert: make apply_filter() adhere to standard Git error handling
  pkt-line: add functions to read/write flush terminated packet streams
  pkt-line: add packet_write_gently()
  pkt-line: add packet_flush_gently()
  pkt-line: add packet_write_fmt_gently()
  pkt-line: extract set_packet_header()
  pkt-line: rename packet_write() to packet_write_fmt()
  run-command: add clean_on_exit_handler
  run-command: move check_pipe() from write_or_die to run_command
  convert: modernize tests
  convert: quote filter names in error messages