Git 2.18-rc2

Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>

Documentation/RelNotes/2.18.0.txt

@@ -518,6 +518,11 @@ Fixes since v2.17
    nickname for remote groups, but only one of them was documented.
    (merge a97447a42a nd/remote-update-doc later to maint).
+ * "index-pack --strict" has been taught to make sure that it runs the
+   final object integrity checks after making the freshly indexed
+   packfile available to itself.
+   (merge 3737746120 jk/index-pack-maint later to maint).
+
  * Other minor doc, test and build updates and code cleanups.
    (merge 248f66ed8e nd/trace-with-env later to maint).
    (merge 14ced5562c ys/bisect-object-id-missing-conversion-fix later to maint).
@@ -553,3 +558,4 @@ Fixes since v2.17
    (merge 44f560fc16 rd/init-typo later to maint).
    (merge f156a0934a rd/p4-doc-markup-env later to maint).
    (merge 2a00502b14 tg/doc-sec-list later to maint).
+   (merge 47cc91310a jk/submodule-fsck-loose-fixup later to maint).

GIT-VERSION-GEN

 #!/bin/sh
 GVF=GIT-VERSION-FILE
-DEF_VER=v2.18.0-rc1
+DEF_VER=v2.18.0-rc2
 LF='
 '