* git replay now supports replaying down to the root commit.
+ * Handling of signed commits and tags in fast-import has been made more
+ configurable.
+
Performance, Internal Implementation, Development Support etc.
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that discarded constness when they return a pointer into a const
string to preserve constness.
+ * A handful of inappropriate uses of the_repository have been
+ rewritten to use the right repository structure instance in the
+ read-cache.c codepath.
+
+ * Internals of "git fsck" have been refactored to not depend on the
+ global `the_repository` variable.
+
+ * Reduce dependency on `the_repository` in add-patch.c file.
+
+ * The way the "git log -L<range>:<file>" feature is bolted onto the
+ log/diff machinery is being reworked a bit to make the feature
+ compatible with more diff options, like -S/G.
+
Fixes since v2.53
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refspec is a single-object refspec, which has been corrected.
(merge 4e5dc601dd kj/refspec-parsing-outside-repository later to maint).
+ * Fix a regression in writing the commit-graph where commits with dates
+ exceeding 34 bits (beyond year 2514) could cause an underflow and
+ crash Git during the generation data overflow chunk writing.
+
+ * The value of a wrong pointer variable was referenced in an error
+ message that reported that it shouldn't be NULL.
+ (merge 753ecf4205 yc/path-walk-fix-error-reporting later to maint).
+
+ * The check in "receive-pack" to prevent a checked out branch from
+ getting updated via updateInstead mechanism has been corrected.
+
+ * "git backfill" is capable of auto-detecting a sparsely checked out
+ working tree, which was broken.
+ (merge 339eba65a7 th/backfill-auto-detect-sparseness-fix later to maint).
+
* Other code cleanup, docfix, build fix, etc.
(merge d79fff4a11 jk/remote-tracking-ref-leakfix later to maint).
(merge 7a747f972d dd/t5403-modernise later to maint).