reduce code duplication.
* Repeated rename detections in a sequence of mergy operations have
- been optimize out.
+ been optimized out for the 'ort' merge strategy.
* Preliminary clean-up of tests before the main reftable changes
hits the codebase.
* "git read-tree" had a codepath where blobs are fetched one-by-one
from the promisor remote, which has been corrected to fetch in bulk.
+ * Rewrite of "git submodule" in C continues.
+
+ * "git checkout" and "git commit" learn to work without unnecessarily
+ expanding sparse indexes.
+
Fixes since v2.32
-----------------
* A race between repacking and using pack bitmaps has been corrected.
(merge dc1daacdcc jk/check-pack-valid-before-opening-bitmap later to maint).
+ * The local changes stashed by "git merge --autostash" were lost when
+ the merge failed in certain ways, which has been corrected.
+
+ * Windows rmdir() equivalent behaves differently from POSIX ones in
+ that when used on a symbolic link that points at a directory, the
+ target directory gets removed, which has been corrected.
+ (merge 3e7d4888e5 tb/mingw-rmdir-symlink-to-directory later to maint).
+
* Other code cleanup, docfix, build fix, etc.
(merge bfe35a6165 ah/doc-describe later to maint).
(merge f302c1e4aa jc/clarify-revision-range later to maint).
(merge ddcb189d9d tb/bitmap-type-filter-comment-fix later to maint).
(merge 878b399734 pb/submodule-recurse-doc later to maint).
(merge 734283855f jk/config-env-doc later to maint).
+ (merge 482e1488a9 ab/getcwd-test later to maint).
+ (merge f0b922473e ar/doc-markup-fix later to maint).