js/visual-studio, was Re: What's cooking in git.git (Aug 2019, #01; Thu, 1)

> * js/visual-studio (2019-07-29) 23 commits
>  - git: avoid calling aliased builtins via their dashed form
>  - bin-wrappers: append `.exe` to target paths if necessary
>  - .gitignore: ignore Visual Studio's temporary/generated files
>  - .gitignore: touch up the entries regarding Visual Studio
>  - vcxproj: also link-or-copy builtins
>  - msvc: add a Makefile target to pre-generate the Visual Studio solution
>  - contrib/buildsystems: add a backend for modern Visual Studio versions
>  - contrib/buildsystems: handle options starting with a slash
>  - contrib/buildsystems: also handle -lexpat
>  - contrib/buildsystems: handle libiconv, too
>  - contrib/buildsystems: handle the curl library option
>  - contrib/buildsystems: error out on unknown option
>  - contrib/buildsystems: optionally capture the dry-run in a file
>  - contrib/buildsystems: redirect errors of the dry run into a log file
>  - contrib/buildsystems: ignore gettext stuff
>  - contrib/buildsystems: handle quoted spaces in filenames
>  - contrib/buildsystems: fix misleading error message
>  - contrib/buildsystems: ignore irrelevant files in Generators/
>  - contrib/buildsystems: ignore invalidcontinue.obj
>  - Vcproj.pm: urlencode '<' and '>' when generating VC projects
>  - Vcproj.pm: do not configure VCWebServiceProxyGeneratorTool
>  - Vcproj.pm: list git.exe first to be startup project
>  - Vcproj.pm: auto-generate GUIDs
>
>  Support building Git with Visual Studio
>
>  The bits about .git/branches/* have been dropped from the series.
>  We may want to drop the support for it, but until that happens, the
>  tests should rely on the existence of the support to pass.