Port some fixes from Git for Windows
tree2295ff2dd52063c33d9e998ea1b8c4978cc810d8
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-rw-r--r-- 878 .gitmodules
-rw-r--r-- 224 .mailmap
-rw-r--r-- 231 .tgitconfig
drwxr-xr-x - Languages
-rw-r--r-- 3945 README.md
-rw-r--r-- 2217 appveyor.yml
-rw-r--r-- 6137 architecture.txt
-rw-r--r-- 2589 build.txt
drwxr-xr-x - contrib
drwxr-xr-x - doc
drwxr-xr-x - ext
-rw-r--r-- 952 release.txt
drwxr-xr-x - src
drwxr-xr-x - test