The eighteenth batch

Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>

Junio C Hamano committed May 27, 2025 at 13:58 UTC 34673cd0e81df9ccc075dd5e25ec92bf3128b3e9
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76 been under "scalar"'s control are taught an option not to enable the
77 scheduled maintenance on it.
78
79 + * The userdiff pattern for shell scripts has been updated to cope
80 + with more bash-isms.
81 +
82 + * "git merge-tree" learned an option to see if it resolves cleanly
83 + without actually creating a result.
84 +
85 + * The commit title in the "rebase -i" todo file are now prefixed with
86 + '#', just like a merge commit being replayed.
87 +
88
89 Performance, Internal Implementation, Development Support etc.
90 --------------------------------------------------------------
@@ -167,6 +176,15 @@ Performance, Internal Implementation, Development Support etc.
176 * The dependency on the_repository variable has been reduced from the
177 code paths in "git replay".
178
179 + * Support to create a loose object file with unknown object type has
180 + been dropped.
181 +
182 + * The code path to access the "packed-refs" file while "fsck" is
183 + taught to mmap the file, instead of reading the whole file in the
184 + memory.
185 +
186 + * Assorted fixes for issues found with CodeQL.
187 +
188
189 Fixes since v2.49
190 -----------------
@@ -325,6 +343,10 @@ Fixes since v2.49
343 automatically (as opposed to be done only upon manual request).
344 (merge 6389579b2f ps/ci-gitlab-enable-msvc-meson-job later to maint).
345
346 + * "git apply" and "git add -i/-p" code paths no longer unnecessarily
347 + expand sparse-index while working.
348 + (merge ecf9ba20e3 ds/sparse-apply-add-p later to maint).
349 +
350 * Other code cleanup, docfix, build fix, etc.
351 (merge 227c4f33a0 ja/doc-block-delimiter-markup-fix later to maint).
352 (merge 2bfd3b3685 ab/decorate-code-cleanup later to maint).
@@ -355,3 +377,5 @@ Fixes since v2.49
377 (merge e5dd0a05ed ly/am-split-stgit-leakfix later to maint).
378 (merge bac220e154 rc/t1001-test-path-is-file later to maint).
379 (merge 91db6c735d ly/reftable-writer-leakfix later to maint).
380 + (merge 20e4e9ad0b jc/doc-synopsis-option-markup later to maint).
381 + (merge cddcee7f64 es/meson-configure-build-options-fix later to maint).