been under "scalar"'s control are taught an option not to enable the
scheduled maintenance on it.
+ * The userdiff pattern for shell scripts has been updated to cope
+ with more bash-isms.
+
+ * "git merge-tree" learned an option to see if it resolves cleanly
+ without actually creating a result.
+
+ * The commit title in the "rebase -i" todo file are now prefixed with
+ '#', just like a merge commit being replayed.
+
Performance, Internal Implementation, Development Support etc.
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* The dependency on the_repository variable has been reduced from the
code paths in "git replay".
+ * Support to create a loose object file with unknown object type has
+ been dropped.
+
+ * The code path to access the "packed-refs" file while "fsck" is
+ taught to mmap the file, instead of reading the whole file in the
+ memory.
+
+ * Assorted fixes for issues found with CodeQL.
+
Fixes since v2.49
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automatically (as opposed to be done only upon manual request).
(merge 6389579b2f ps/ci-gitlab-enable-msvc-meson-job later to maint).
+ * "git apply" and "git add -i/-p" code paths no longer unnecessarily
+ expand sparse-index while working.
+ (merge ecf9ba20e3 ds/sparse-apply-add-p later to maint).
+
* Other code cleanup, docfix, build fix, etc.
(merge 227c4f33a0 ja/doc-block-delimiter-markup-fix later to maint).
(merge 2bfd3b3685 ab/decorate-code-cleanup later to maint).
(merge e5dd0a05ed ly/am-split-stgit-leakfix later to maint).
(merge bac220e154 rc/t1001-test-path-is-file later to maint).
(merge 91db6c735d ly/reftable-writer-leakfix later to maint).
+ (merge 20e4e9ad0b jc/doc-synopsis-option-markup later to maint).
+ (merge cddcee7f64 es/meson-configure-build-options-fix later to maint).