An incremental update to "What's cooking"

Here is the tonight's snapshot as an incremental update to the issue #5 of "What's cooking" for this month.

I'd like to merge jn/merge-no-edit-fix topic to 'maint' and release the first maintenance release 1.7.9.1 soonish. The topic is merged to 'master' already, and it is very much appreciated if people can test and eyeball it to make sure we fixed what is broken in the vanilla 1.7.9 release without causing regression in unexpected places.

Thanks, and goodnight.

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Born topics

[New Topics]

 * cb/maint-rev-list-verify-object (2012-02-13) 1 commit
  - git rev-list: fix invalid typecast
 
 Fixes an obscure bug in "rev-list --verify" that skipped verification
 depending on the phase of the moon, which dates back to 1.7.8.x series.

 * cb/maint-t5541-make-server-port-portable (2012-02-13) 1 commit
  - t5541: check error message against the real port number used
 
 Test fix.

 * cb/receive-pack-keep-errors (2012-02-13) 1 commit
  - do not override receive-pack errors
 
 One hunk and the word "override" in the description were a bit iffy.

 * cb/transfer-no-progress (2012-02-13) 1 commit
  - push/fetch/clone --no-progress suppresses progress output
 
 The transport programs semi-ignored --no-progress and showed progress when
 sending their output to a terminal.

 * jk/diff-highlight (2012-02-13) 5 commits
  - diff-highlight: document some non-optimal cases
  - diff-highlight: match multi-line hunks
  - diff-highlight: refactor to prepare for multi-line hunks
  - diff-highlight: don't highlight whole lines
  - diff-highlight: make perl strict and warnings fatal
 
 Updates diff-highlight (in contrib/).

 * zj/decimal-width (2012-02-13) 1 commit
  - (sign-off???) make lineno_width() from blame reusable for others
  (this branch is used by zj/diff-stat-dyncol.)
 
 Refactoring.

 * zj/term-columns (2012-02-13) 1 commit
  - pager: find out the terminal width before spawning the pager
  (this branch is used by zj/diff-stat-dyncol.)
 
 Fixes "git -p cmd" for any subcommand that cares about the true terminal
 width.

 * hv/submodule-recurse-push (2012-02-13) 3 commits
  - push: teach --recurse-submodules the on-demand option
  - Refactor submodule push check to use string list instead of integer
  - Teach revision walking machinery to walk multiple times sequencially
 
 The bottom one was not clearly explained.

 * zj/diff-stat-dyncol (2012-02-13) 2 commits
  - diff --stat: use the full terminal width
  - Merge branch 'zj/term-columns' into zj/diff-stat-dyncol
  (this branch uses zj/decimal-width and zj/term-columns.)
 
 This breaks tests. Perhaps it is not worth using the decimal-width stuff
 for this series, at least initially.

-------------------------------------------------- [Cooking]

-* ld/git-p4-expanded-keywords (2012-02-09) 2 commits
+* ld/git-p4-expanded-keywords (2012-02-13) 3 commits
+ - git-p4: more RCS tests
  - git-p4: initial demonstration of possible RCS keyword fixup
  - git-p4: add test case for RCS keywords
 
-Waiting for reviews and user reports.
+Waiting for the dust to settle.