incremental updates to "What's cooking"

Topics meant for the upcoming 1.7.12 have been maturing, and I am planning to tag 1.7.12-rc0 early next week. As a handful of topics have been rerolled since the last "What's cooking", here is an incremental updates.

There are quite a few topics that are marked as "Expecting a reroll" in the last "What's cooking". I'd hope them to be ready by the end of this week.

[New Topics]

 * lk/more-helpful-status-hints (2012-07-16) 1 commit
   (merged to 'next' on 2012-07-16 at 8f9b3cc)
  + status: color in-progress message like other header messages
 
 Will merge to 'master'.

 * mm/mediawiki-usability (2012-07-16) 8 commits
  - git-remote-mediawiki: properly deal with invalid remote revisions
  - git-remote-mediawiki: show progress information when getting last remote revision
  - git-remote-mediawiki: show progress information when listing pages
  - git-remote-mediawiki: use --force when adding notes
  - git-remote-mediawiki: get rid of O(N^2) loop
  - git-remote-mediawiki: make mediafiles export optional
  - git-remote-mediawiki: actually send empty comment when they're empty
  - git-remote-mediawiki: don't split namespaces with spaces
 
 Will merge to 'next'.

 * ms/daemon-doc-typo (2012-07-16) 1 commit
   (merged to 'next' on 2012-07-16 at 3976434)
  + Documentation/git-daemon: add missing word
 
 Will merge to 'master'.

-------------------------------------------------- Moved from [New Topics] to [Cooking]

 * sn/doc-typofix (2012-07-14) 1 commit
  - doc: A few minor copy edits.
+
+Will merge to 'next'.

-------------------------------------------------- Other topics

[Cooking]

-* as/t4012-style-updates (2012-07-12) 7 commits
+* as/t4012-style-updates (2012-07-16) 8 commits
+ - t4012: Use test_must_fail instead of if-else
  - t4012: use 'printf' instead of 'dd' to generate a binary file
  - t4012: Re-indent test snippets
  - t4012: Make --shortstat test more robust
  - t4012: Break up pipe into serial redirections
  - t4012: Actually quote the sed script
  - t4012: Unquote git command fragment in test title
  - t4012: modernize style for quoting
 
-Expecting a reroll.
+Will merge to 'next'.

-* mm/config-xdg (2012-07-12) 2 commits
+* mm/config-xdg (2012-07-16) 1 commit
- - fixup! config: fix several access(NULL) calls
  - config: fix several access(NULL) calls
 
-Either we do the stupid literal conversion (shown in fixup!), or the
-reason why we special case missing HOME needs to be better explained.
+Will merge to 'next'.

 * tg/ce-namelen-field (2012-07-11) 2 commits
  - Strip namelen out of ce_flags into a ce_namelen field
  - Merge branch 'tg/maint-cache-name-compare' into tg/ce-namelen-field
 
+Split lower bits of ce_flags field and creates a new ce_namelen
+field in the in-core index structure.
+
-Split lower bits of ce_flags field and creates a new ce_namelen
-field in the in-core index structure.
+Will merge to 'next'.