Merging Git notes branches has several differences from merging "normal"
branches. Although Git notes are initially stored as one flat tree the
tree may fanout when the number of notes becomes too large for efficient
access. In this case the first two hex digits of the note name will be
used as a subdirectory name and the rest 38 hex digits as the file name
under that directory. Similarly, when number of notes decreases a fanout
tree may collapse back into a flat tree. The Git notes merge algorithm
must take into account possibly different tree structures in different
note branches and must properly match them against each other.

Any conflict on a Git note is, by default, resolved by concatenating
the two conflicting versions of the note. A delete-edit conflict is, by
default, resolved by keeping the edit version.

The note merge logic is pluggable and the caller may provide custom
note merger that will perform different merging strategy.

Additionally, it is possible to have non-note entries inside a notes
tree. The merge algorithm must also take this fact into account and
will try to merge such non-note entries. However, in case of any merge
conflicts the merge operation will fail. Git notes merge algorithm is
currently not trying to do content merge of non-note entries.

Thanks to Shawn Pearce for patiently answering my questions related to
this topic, giving hints and providing code snippets.

Change-Id: I3b2335c76c766fd7ea25752e54087f9b19d69c88
Signed-off-by: Sasa Zivkov <sasa.zivkov@sap.com>
Signed-off-by: Matthias Sohn <matthias.sohn@sap.com>

The strings are externalized into the root resource bundles.
The resource bundles are stored under the new "resources" source
folder to get proper maven build.

Strings from tests are, in general, not externalized. Only in
cases where it was necessary to make the test pass the strings
were externalized. This was typically necessary in cases where
e.getMessage() was used in assert and the exception message was
slightly changed due to reuse of the externalized strings.

Change-Id: Ic0f29c80b9a54fcec8320d8539a3e112852a1f7b
Signed-off-by: Sasa Zivkov <sasa.zivkov@sap.com>

As discussed on the egit-dev mailing list, we prefer not to have
trailing whitespace in our source code.  Correct all currently
offending lines by trimming them.

Change-Id: I002b1d1980071084c0bc53242c8f5900970e6845
Signed-off-by: Shawn O. Pearce <spearce@spearce.org>

Per CQ 3448 this is the initial contribution of the JGit project
to eclipse.org.  It is derived from the historical JGit repository
at commit 3a2dd9921c.

Signed-off-by: Shawn O. Pearce <spearce@spearce.org>