global: improve const correctness when assigning string constants

We're about to enable `-Wwrite-strings`, which changes the type of
string constants to `const char[]`. Fix various sites where we assign
such constants to non-const variables.

Signed-off-by: Patrick Steinhardt <ps@pks.im>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>

fmt-merge-msg.c

@@ -447,7 +447,7 @@ static void fmt_merge_msg_title(struct strbuf *out,
 				const char *current_branch)
 {
 	int i = 0;
-	char *sep = "";
+	const char *sep = "";
 
 	strbuf_addstr(out, "Merge ");
 	for (i = 0; i < srcs.nr; i++) {