* "git checkout -p" and friends learned that that "@" is a synonym
for "HEAD".
+ * Variants of vimdiff learned to honor mergetool.<variant>.layout
+ settings.
+
Performance, Internal Implementation, Development Support etc.
* More tests that are marked as "ref-files only" have been updated to
improve test coverage of reftable backend.
+ * Some parts of command line completion script (in contrib/) have
+ been micro-optimized.
+
Fixes since v2.44
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it would lead to nonsense behaviour including division by zero.
(merge 76fb807faa kh/column-reject-negative-padding later to maint).
+ * "git am --help" now tells readers what actions are available in
+ "git am --whitespace=<action>", in addition to saying that the
+ option is passed through to the underlying "git apply".
+ (merge a171dac734 jc/am-whitespace-doc later to maint).
+
+ * "git tag --column" failed to check the exit status of its "git
+ column" invocation, which has been corrected.
+ (merge 92e66478fc rj/tag-column-fix later to maint).
+
+ * Credential helper based on libsecret (in contrib/) has been updated
+ to handle an empty password correctly.
+ (merge 8f1f2023b7 mh/libsecret-empty-password-fix later to maint).
+
* Other code cleanup, docfix, build fix, etc.
(merge f0e578c69c rs/use-xstrncmpz later to maint).
+ (merge 83e6eb7d7a ba/credential-test-clean-fix later to maint).
+ (merge 64562d784d jb/doc-interactive-singlekey-do-not-need-perl later to maint).