* "git pack-redundant" has been marked for removal in Git 3.0.
+ * One-line messages to "die" and other helper functions will get LF
+ added by these helper functions, but many existing messages had an
+ unnecessary LF at the end, which have been corrected.
+
Performance, Internal Implementation, Development Support etc.
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* Make our codebase compilable with the -Werror=unused-parameter
option.
+ * "git cat-file" works well with the sparse-index, and gets marked as
+ such.
+
Fixes since v2.46
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from the output, which has been corrected.
(merge 6bd2ae67a5 jk/free-commit-buffer-of-skipped-commits later to maint).
+ * "git verify-pack" and "git index-pack" started dying outside a
+ repository, which has been corrected.
+ (merge b2dbf97f47 ps/index-pack-outside-repo-fix later to maint).
+
+ * A data corruption bug when multi-pack-index is used and the same
+ objects are stored in multiple packfiles has been corrected.
+
+ * "git pack-refs --auto" for the files backend was too aggressive,
+ which has been a bit tamed.
+ (merge c3459ae9ef ps/pack-refs-auto-heuristics later to maint).
+
* Other code cleanup, docfix, build fix, etc.
(merge bb0498b1bb jc/how-to-maintain-updates later to maint).
(merge 0d66f601a9 jc/tests-no-useless-tee later to maint).
(merge 4881328617 aa/cat-file-batch-output-doc later to maint).
(merge 1609470409 jc/config-doc-update later to maint).
(merge d4dc0efd7d rj/compat-terminal-unused-fix later to maint).
+ (merge be10ac7037 jc/mailinfo-header-cleanup later to maint).