Merge remote branch 'ko/master' into jc/read-tree-cache-tree-fix

* ko/master: (2325 commits)
  Git 1.7.2-rc2
  backmerge a few more fixes to 1.7.1.X series
  fix git branch -m in presence of cross devices
  t/t0006: specify timezone as EST5 not EST to comply with POSIX
  add missing && to submodule-merge testcase
  t/README: document more test helpers
  test-date: fix sscanf type conversion
  xdiff: optimise for no whitespace difference when ignoring whitespace.
  gitweb: Move evaluate_gitweb_config out of run_request
  parse_date: fix signedness in timezone calculation
  t0006: test timezone parsing
  rerere.txt: Document forget subcommand
  t/README: proposed rewording...
  t/README: Document the do's and don'ts of tests
  t/README: Add a section about skipping tests
  t/README: Document test_expect_code
  t/README: Document test_external*
  t/README: Document the prereq functions, and 3-arg test_*
  t/README: Typo: paralell -> parallel
  t/README: The trash is in 't/trash directory.$name'
  ...

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	builtin-read-tree.c

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diff --git a/compat/vcbuild/scripts/lib.pl b/compat/vcbuild/scripts/lib.pl
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000..d8054e469f
--- /dev/null
+++ b/compat/vcbuild/scripts/lib.pl
@@ -0,0 +1,26 @@
+#!/usr/bin/perl -w
+######################################################################
+# Libifies files on Windows
+#
+# This is a wrapper to facilitate the compilation of Git with MSVC
+# using GNU Make as the build system. So, instead of manipulating the
+# Makefile into something nasty, just to support non-space arguments
+# etc, we use this wrapper to fix the command line options
+#
+# Copyright (C) 2009 Marius Storm-Olsen <mstormo@gmail.com>
+######################################################################
+use strict;
+my @args = ();
+while (@ARGV) {
+	my $arg = shift @ARGV;
+	if ("$arg" eq "rcs") {
+		# Consume the rcs option
+	} elsif ("$arg" =~ /\.a$/) {
+		push(@args, "-OUT:$arg");
+	} else {
+		push(@args, $arg);
+	}
+}
+unshift(@args, "lib.exe");
+# printf("**** @args\n");
+exit (system(@args) != 0);