This is where portable git stores the global configuration which we can
use to adhere to it even though git isn't quite installed on the system.

revwalk: make commit list use 64 bits for time

Preserve modes from a conflict in `git_index_insert`

For most real use cases, repositories with alternates use them as main
object storage. Checking the alternate for objects before the main
repository should result in measurable speedups.

Because of this, we're changing the sorting algorithm to prioritize
alternates *in cases where two backends have the same priority*. This
means that the pack backend for the alternate will be checked before the
pack backend for the main repository *but* both of them will be checked
before any loose backends.

In the current implementation of ODB backends, each backend is tasked
with refreshing itself after a failed lookup. This is standard Git
behavior: we want to e.g. reload the packfiles on disk in case they have
changed and that's the reason we can't find the object we're looking
for.

This behavior, however, becomes pathological in repositories where
multiple alternates have been loaded. Given that each alternate counts
as a separate backend, a miss in the main repository (which can
potentially be very frequent in cases where object storage comes from
the alternate) will result in refreshing all its packfiles before we
move on to the alternate backend where the object will most likely be
found.

To fix this, the code in `odb.c` has been refactored as to perform the
refresh of all the backends externally, once we've verified that the
object is nowhere to be found.

If the refresh is successful, we then perform the lookup sequentially
through all the backends, skipping the ones that we know for sure
weren't refreshed (because they have no refresh API).

The on-disk pack backend has been adjusted accordingly: it no longer
performs refreshes internally.

We moved the "main" parsing to use 64 bits for the timestamp, but the
quick parsing for the revwalk did not. This means that for large
timestamps we fail to parse the time and thus the walk.

Move this parser to use 64 bits as well.

xdiff craps the bed on large files.  Treat very large files as binary,
so that it doesn't even have to try.

Refactor our merge binary handling to better match git.git, which
looks for a NUL in the first 8000 bytes.