* A new command "git last-modified" has been added to show the closest
ancestor commit that touched each path.
+ * "git refs exists" that works like "git show-ref --exists" has been
+ added.
+
Performance, Internal Implementation, Development Support etc.
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hash function implementation used to hash lines have been updated
to the one used for ELF symbol lookup by Glibc.
+ * Instead of scanning for the remaining items to see if there are
+ still commits to be explored in the queue, use khash to remember
+ which items are still on the queue (an unacceptable alternative is
+ to reserve one object flag bits).
+
Fixes since v2.51
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this.
(merge 681f26bccc ds/ls-files-lazy-unsparse later to maint).
+ * Windows "real-time monitoring" interferes with the execution of
+ tests and affects negatively in both correctness and performance,
+ which has been disabled in Gitlab CI.
+ (merge 608cf5b793 ps/gitlab-ci-disable-windows-monitoring later to maint).
+
* Other code cleanup, docfix, build fix, etc.
(merge 823d537fa7 kh/doc-git-log-markup-fix later to maint).
(merge cf7efa4f33 rj/t6137-cygwin-fix later to maint).
(merge 374579c6d4 kh/doc-interpret-trailers-markup-fix later to maint).
(merge 44dce6541c kh/doc-config-typofix later to maint).
(merge 785628b173 js/doc-sending-patch-via-thunderbird later to maint).
+ (merge e5c27bd3d8 je/doc-add later to maint).
+ (merge 13296ac909 ps/object-store-midx-dedup-info later to maint).
+ (merge 2f4bf83ffc km/alias-doc-markup-fix later to maint).
+ (merge b0d97aac19 kh/doc-markup-fixes later to maint).
+ (merge f9a6705d9a tc/t0450-harden later to maint).