* "Symlink symref" has been added to the list of things that will
disappear at Git 3.0 boundary.
+ * "git maintenance" command learns the "geometric" strategy where it
+ avoids doing maintenance tasks that rebuilds everything from
+ scratch.
+
Performance, Internal Implementation, Development Support etc.
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* Two slightly different ways to get at "all the packfiles" in API
has been cleaned up.
+ * The code to walk revision graph to compute merge base has been
+ optimized.
+
Fixes since v2.51
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and "git bisect unknown", which has been corrected.
(merge 2bb3a012f3 rz/bisect-help-unknown later to maint).
+ * The 'q'(uit) command in "git add -p" has been improved to quit
+ without doing any meaningless work before leaving, and giving EOF
+ (typically control-D) to the prompt is made to behave the same way.
+
+ * The wildmatch code had a corner case bug that mistakenly makes
+ "foo**/bar" match with "foobar", which has been corrected.
+ (merge 1940a02dc1 jk/match-pathname-fix later to maint).
+
* Other code cleanup, docfix, build fix, etc.
(merge 529a60a885 ua/t1517-short-help-tests later to maint).
(merge 22d421fed9 ac/deglobal-fmt-merge-log-config later to maint).
(merge a66fc22bf9 rs/get-oid-with-flags-cleanup later to maint).
(merge 15b8abde07 js/mingw-includes-cleanup later to maint).
(merge 2cebca0582 tb/cat-file-objectmode-update later to maint).
+ (merge 8f487db07a kh/doc-patch-id-1 later to maint).