Merge branch 'maint'

* maint:
git-cvsserver: fix disabling service via per-method config
git-status: respect core.excludesFile
SubmittingPatches: mention older C compiler compatibility
git-daemon: don't ignore pid-file write failure

diff --combined Documentation/config.txt
index ee1c35e8eb952967980884d521d12a76622f38f4,4bbe1162cbb3449fd841007fbcf855a4b0e44497..179cb177d1e3b0a7a969874dde059bf2f9a7266e
--- 1/Documentation/config.txt
--- 2/Documentation/config.txt
+++ b/Documentation/config.txt
@@@ -204,16 -204,23 +204,16 @@@ core.warnAmbiguousRefs:
        and might match multiple refs in the .git/refs/ tree. True by default.
  
  core.compression::
 +      An integer -1..9, indicating a default compression level.
 +      -1 is the zlib default. 0 means no compression,
 +      and 1..9 are various speed/size tradeoffs, 9 being slowest.
 +
 +core.loosecompression::
        An integer -1..9, indicating the compression level for objects that
 -      are not in a pack file. -1 is the zlib and git default. 0 means no
 +      are not in a pack file. -1 is the zlib default. 0 means no
        compression, and 1..9 are various speed/size tradeoffs, 9 being
 -      slowest.
 -
 -core.legacyheaders::
 -      A boolean which
 -      changes the format of loose objects so that they are more
 -      efficient to pack and to send out of the repository over git
 -      native protocol, since v1.4.2.  However, loose objects
 -      written in the new format cannot be read by git older than
 -      that version; people fetching from your repository using
 -      older versions of git over dumb transports (e.g. http)
 -      will also be affected.
 -+
 -To let git use the new loose object format, you have to
 -set core.legacyheaders to false.
 +      slowest.  If not set,  defaults to core.compression.  If that is
 +      not set,  defaults to 0 (best speed).
  
  core.packedGitWindowSize::
        Number of bytes of a pack file to map into memory in a
@@@ -256,6 -263,11 +256,11 @@@ You probably do not need to adjust thi
  +
  Common unit suffixes of 'k', 'm', or 'g' are supported.
  
+ core.excludeFile::
+       In addition to '.gitignore' (per-directory) and
+       '.git/info/exclude', git looks into this file for patterns
+       of files which are not meant to be tracked.
+ 
  alias.*::
        Command aliases for the gitlink:git[1] command wrapper - e.g.
        after defining "alias.last = cat-file commit HEAD", the invocation
@@@ -377,11 -389,6 +382,11 @@@ format.suffix:
        `.patch`. Use this variable to change that suffix (make sure to
        include the dot if you want it).
  
 +gc.aggressiveWindow::
 +      The window size parameter used in the delta compression
 +      algorithm used by 'git gc --aggressive'.  This defaults
 +      to 10.
 +
  gc.packrefs::
        `git gc` does not run `git pack-refs` in a bare repository by
        default so that older dumb-transport clients can still fetch
@@@ -548,13 -555,6 +553,13 @@@ pack.depth:
        The maximum delta depth used by gitlink:git-pack-objects[1] when no
        maximum depth is given on the command line. Defaults to 50.
  
 +pack.compression::
 +      An integer -1..9, indicating the compression level for objects
 +      in a pack file. -1 is the zlib default. 0 means no
 +      compression, and 1..9 are various speed/size tradeoffs, 9 being
 +      slowest.  If not set,  defaults to core.compression.  If that is
 +      not set,  defaults to -1.
 +
  pull.octopus::
        The default merge strategy to use when pulling multiple branches
        at once.