environment variables, but now they can be configured in the user's
global and system wide configuration.
+ * "git send-email" learned "--translate-aliases" option that reads
+ addresses from the standard input and emits the result of applying
+ aliases on them to the standard output.
+
+ * 'git for-each-ref' learned a new "--format" atom to find the branch
+ that the history leading to a given commit "%(is-base:<commit>)" is
+ likely based on.
+
Performance, Internal Implementation, Development Support etc.
--------------------------------------------------------------
object in the config subsystem has been rewritten to pass a
repository object through the callchain.
+ * Drop unused parameters from functions.
+
+ * Mark unused parameters as UNUSED to squelch -Wunused warnings.
+
Fixes since v2.46
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unnecessarily, which has been corrected.
(merge 96a9a3e42e ps/bundle-outside-repo-fix later to maint).
+ * Maintenance tasks other than "gc" now properly go background when
+ "git maintenance" runs them.
+
+ * We created a useless pseudo-merge reachability bitmap that is about
+ 0 commits, and attempted to include commits that are not in packs,
+ which made no sense. These bugs have been corrected.
+ (merge a72dfab8b8 tb/pseudo-merge-bitmap-fixes later to maint).
+
* Other code cleanup, docfix, build fix, etc.
(merge bb0498b1bb jc/how-to-maintain-updates later to maint).
(merge 7c7516b8db jc/jl-git-no-advice-fix later to maint).
(merge 170cdfc5a4 jc/grammo-fixes later to maint).
(merge 983555a1f2 jc/how-to-maintain-updates later to maint).
(merge e3209bd4df ps/stash-keep-untrack-empty-fix later to maint).
+ (merge 44db6f75cc jc/coding-style-c-operator-with-spaces later to maint).