[FYI] 'next' will be rewound shortly

Just a quick heads-up.  

As the first wave for the post-1.9.0 development cycle, these topics will be merged to 'master' (unless there are serious last minute issues found) shortly:

 + kb/fast-hashmap                                              02-24/01-03   #18
 + nv/commit-gpgsign-config                                     02-24/01-03    #3
 + da/pull-ff-configuration                                     01-15/01-22    #2
 + bk/refresh-missing-ok-in-merge-recursive                     02-24/01-29    #4
 + ds/rev-parse-required-args                                   01-28/01-31    #1
 + jk/config-path-include-fix                                   01-28/01-31    #2
 + bs/stdio-undef-before-redef                                  01-31/01-31    #1
 + ep/varscope                                                  01-31/01-31    #7
 + nd/submodule-pathspec-ending-with-slash                      02-24/01-31    #8
 + nd/diff-quiet-stat-dirty                                     02-24/01-31    #2
 + nd/test-rename-reset                                         02-04/02-06    #1
 + mw/symlinks                                                  02-04/02-06    #6
 + ks/tree-diff-walk                                            02-24/02-06    #5
 + wk/submodule-on-branch                                       02-24/02-06    #4
 + nd/reset-intent-to-add                                       02-05/02-07    #1
 + jk/test-ports                                                02-10/02-13    #2
 + al/docs                                                      02-11/02-13    #4
 + bc/gpg-sign-everywhere                                       02-11/02-13    #9
 + jk/pack-bitmap                                               02-12/02-13   #26
 + nd/http-fetch-shallow-fix                                    02-13/02-13    #7
 + dk/blame-janitorial                                          02-24/02-13    #4

and the tip of 'next' will be rewound at the same time (like, say, tomorrow).

We may want to merge the 2.0.0 transition topics as the second wave to 'master' (and starting Documentation/RelNotes/2.0.0.txt) before merging topics other than the above to it.

There are about 30 more topics that are ready for 'next' (not counting the ones for 2.0.0 transition), all of which are likely to be in 'next' soonish.

 + nd/daemonize-gc                                              02-10/02-20    #2
 + jk/run-network-tests-by-default                              02-14/02-20    #1
 + ks/combine-diff                                              02-24/02-20    #6
 - jc/check-attr-honor-working-tree                             02-06          #2
 - nd/gitignore-trailing-whitespace                             02-10          #2
 - ss/completion-rec-sub-fetch-push                             02-11          #1
 - jk/http-no-curl-easy                                         02-18          #1
 - jk/janitorial-fixes                                          02-18          #5
 - ks/config-file-stdin                                         02-18          #4
 - lb/contrib-contacts-looser-diff-parsing                      02-18          #1
 - nd/reset-setup-worktree                                      02-18          #1
 - tr/diff-submodule-no-reuse-worktree                          02-18          #1
 - ak/gitweb-fit-image                                          02-20          #1
 - mh/replace-refs-variable-rename                              02-20          #1
 - nd/no-more-fnmatch                                           02-20          #4
 - rt/links-for-asciidoctor                                     02-20          #1
 - jh/note-trees-record-blobs                                   02-20          #1
 - da/difftool-git-files                                        02-24          #1
 - jk/commit-dates-parsing-fix                                  02-24          #5
 - jk/remote-pushremote-config-reading                          02-24          #1
 - jm/stash-doc-k-for-keep                                      02-24          #1
 - jn/am-doc-hooks                                              02-24          #1
 - mh/object-code-cleanup                                       02-24          #4
 - nd/i18n-progress                                             02-24          #1
 - fc/transport-helper-fixes                                    02-24          #7
 - tg/index-v4-format                                           02-24          #3
 - ks/tree-diff-more                                            02-24         #15

I may be a bit too busy to be able to pick up new topics for a few days, as the topic-flipping is usually quite time consuming when some ordering of the topics change, i.e. when rerere stops to be helpful.

Thanks.