* Incrementally updating multi-pack index files.
+ * "git reflog" learns "drop" subcommand, that discards the entire
+ reflog data for a ref.
+
+ * A new userdiff driver for ".ini" format configuration files has
+ been added.
+
+ * The job to coalesce loose objects into packfiles in "git
+ maintenance" now has configurable batch size.
+
+ * "git clone" still gave the message about the default branch name;
+ this message has been turned into an advice message that can be
+ turned off.
+
Performance, Internal Implementation, Development Support etc.
--------------------------------------------------------------
* CI update.
+ * The object layer has been updated to take an explicit repository
+ instance as a parameter in more code paths.
+
Fixes since v2.49
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which has been corrected.
(merge 93bab2d04b fr/vimdiff-layout-fixes later to maint).
+ * Fix our use of zlib corner cases.
+ (merge 1cb2f293f5 jk/zlib-inflate-fixes later to maint).
+
+ * Fix lockfile contention in reftable code on Windows.
+ (merge 0a3dceabf1 ps/mingw-creat-excl-fix later to maint).
+
+ * "git-merge-file" documentation source, which has lines that look
+ like conflict markers, lacked custom conflict marker size defined,
+ which has been corrected..
+ (merge d3b5832381 pw/custom-conflict-marker-size-for-merge-related-docs later to maint).
+
* Other code cleanup, docfix, build fix, etc.
(merge 227c4f33a0 ja/doc-block-delimiter-markup-fix later to maint).
(merge 2bfd3b3685 ab/decorate-code-cleanup later to maint).
(merge 133d065dd6 ta/bulk-checkin-signed-compare-false-warning-fix later to maint).
(merge d2827dc31e es/meson-build-skip-coccinelle later to maint).
(merge ee8edb7156 dk/vimdiff-doc-fix later to maint).
+ (merge 107d889303 md/t1403-path-is-file later to maint).
+ (merge abd4192b07 js/comma-semicolon-confusion later to maint).