* "git fetch" honors "remote.<remote>.followRemoteHEAD" settings to
tweak the remote-tracking HEAD in "refs/remotes/<remote>/HEAD".
+ * "git range-diff" learned to optionally show and compare merge
+ commits in the ranges being compared, with the --diff-merges
+ option.
+
Performance, Internal Implementation, Development Support etc.
--------------------------------------------------------------
* Build procedure update plus introduction of Meson based builds.
+ * Recent reftable updates mistook a NULL return from a request for
+ 0-byte allocation as OOM and died unnecessarily, which has been
+ corrected.
+
+ * Reftable backend adds check for upper limit of log's update_index.
+
+ * Start working to make the codebase buildable with -Wsign-compare.
+
+ * Regression fix for 'show-index' when run outside of a repository.
+
+ * The meson-build procedure is integrated into CI to catch and
+ prevent bitrotting.
+
+ * "git refs migrate" learned to also migrate the reflog data across
+ backends.
+
Fixes since v2.47
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the revision walker, which has become unnecessary.
(merge dd1072dfa8 tc/bundle-with-tag-remove-workaround later to maint).
+ * GitLab CI updates.
+ (merge c6b43f663e ps/ci-gitlab-update later to maint).
+
+ * Code to reuse objects based on bitmap contents have been tightened
+ to avoid race condition even when multiple packs are involved.
+ (merge 62b3ec8a3f tb/bitmap-fix-pack-reuse later to maint).
+
* 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).