which is its modern rough equivalent has outlived its usefulness
more than 10 years ago. Plan to deprecate and remove it.
+ * An interchange format for stash entries is defined, and subcommand
+ of "git stash" to import/export has been added.
+
+ * "git merge/pull" has been taught the "--compact-summary" option to
+ use the compact-summary format, intead of diffstat, when showing
+ the summary of the incoming changes.
+
Performance, Internal Implementation, Development Support etc.
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* "Do not explicitly initialize to zero" rule has been clarified in
the CodingGuidelines document.
+ * A test helper "test_seq" function learned the "-f <fmt>" option,
+ which allowed us to simplify a lot of test scripts.
+
Fixes since v2.50
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has been remedied.
(merge 1b5074e614 ps/maintenance-ref-lock later to maint).
+ * Avoid regexp_constraint and instead use comparison_constraint when
+ listing functions to exclude from application of coccinelle rules,
+ as spatch can be built with different regexp engine X-<.
+ (merge f2ad545813 jc/cocci-avoid-regexp-constraint later to maint).
+
* Other code cleanup, docfix, build fix, etc.
(merge b257adb571 lo/my-first-ow-doc-update later to maint).
(merge 8b34b6a220 ly/sequencer-update-squash-is-fixup-only later to maint).