Merge branch 'maint'

* maint:
  commit: discard index after setting up partial commit
  filter-branch: handle filenames that need quoting
  diff: Fix miscounting of --check output
  hg-to-git: fix parent analysis
  mailinfo: feed only one line to handle_filter() for QP input
  diff.c: add "const" qualifier to "char *cmd" member of "struct ll_diff_driver"
  Add "const" qualifier to "char *excludes_file".
  Add "const" qualifier to "char *editor_program".
  Add "const" qualifier to "char *pager_program".
  config: add 'git_config_string' to refactor string config variables.
  diff.c: remove useless check for value != NULL
  fast-import: check return value from unpack_entry()
  Validate nicknames of remote branches to prohibit confusing ones
  diff.c: replace a 'strdup' with 'xstrdup'.
  diff.c: fixup garding of config parser from value=NULL

1 files changed, 4 insertions, 3 deletions

diff --git a/cache.h b/cache.h
index 3867ba7ff..cdcabe92b 100644
--- a/cache.h
+++ b/cache.h
@@ -625,6 +625,7 @@ extern int git_parse_ulong(const char *, unsigned long *);
 extern int git_config_int(const char *, const char *);
 extern unsigned long git_config_ulong(const char *, const char *);
 extern int git_config_bool(const char *, const char *);
+extern int git_config_string(const char **, const char *, const char *);
 extern int git_config_set(const char *, const char *);
 extern int git_config_set_multivar(const char *, const char *, const char *, int);
 extern int git_config_rename_section(const char *, const char *);
@@ -650,12 +651,12 @@ extern int write_or_whine_pipe(int fd, const void *buf, size_t count, const char
 
 /* pager.c */
 extern void setup_pager(void);
-extern char *pager_program;
+extern const char *pager_program;
 extern int pager_in_use(void);
 extern int pager_use_color;
 
-extern char *editor_program;
-extern char *excludes_file;
+extern const char *editor_program;
+extern const char *excludes_file;
 
 /* base85 */
 int decode_85(char *dst, const char *line, int linelen);