[sp: Credit for some of this implementation goes to Pieter, I
     started off a patch he proposed for libgit2 but reworked
     enough of it that I don't want to blame him for any bugs.]

Suggested-by: Pieter de Bie <pdebie@ai.rug.nl>
Signed-off-by: Shawn O. Pearce <spearce@spearce.org>