* Yet another "pass the repository through the callchain" topic.
+ * "git describe" learned to stop digging the history needlessly
+ deeper.
+
+ * Build procedure update plus introduction of Meson based builds.
+
Fixes since v2.47
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on the path, which was not documented, which has been corrected.
(merge bc1a980759 kk/doc-ancestry-path later to maint).
+
+ * "git tag" has been taught to refuse to create refs/tags/HEAD
+ as such a tag will be confusing in the context of UI provided by
+ the Git Porcelain commands.
+ (merge bbd445d5ef jc/forbid-head-as-tagname later to maint).
+
+ * The advice messages now tell the newer 'git config set' command to
+ set the advice.token configuration variable to squelch a message.
+ (merge 6c397d0104 bf/explicit-config-set-in-advice-messages later to maint).
+
+ * The syntax ":/<text>" to name the latest commit with the matching
+ text was broken with a recent change, which has been corrected.
+ (merge 0ff919e87a ps/commit-with-message-syntax-fix later to maint).
+
+ * Fix performance regression of a recent "fatten promisor pack with
+ local objects" protection against an unwanted gc.
+
* Other code cleanup, docfix, build fix, etc.
(merge 77af53f56f aa/t7300-modernize later to maint).
(merge dcd590a39d bf/t-readme-mention-reftable later to maint).