The seventh batch

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

Junio C Hamano committed Sep 8, 2025 at 14:54 UTC 4975ec3473b4bc61bc8a3df1ef29d0b7e7959e87
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@@ -14,6 +14,9 @@ UI, Workflows & Features
14 * A new subcommand "git repo" gives users a way to grab various
15 repository characteristics.
16
17 + * A new command "git last-modified" has been added to show the closest
18 + ancestor commit that touched each path.
19 +
20
21 Performance, Internal Implementation, Development Support etc.
22 --------------------------------------------------------------
@@ -40,6 +43,10 @@ Performance, Internal Implementation, Development Support etc.
43 * Discord has been added to the first contribution documentation as
44 another way to ask for help.
45
46 + * Inspired by Ezekiel's recent effort to showcase Rust interface, the
47 + hash function implementation used to hash lines have been updated
48 + to the one used for ELF symbol lookup by Glibc.
49 +
50
51 Fixes since v2.51
52 -----------------
@@ -130,6 +137,20 @@ including security updates, are included in this release.
137 instead of `gitgitgadget/git`.
138 (merge 37001cdbc4 ds/doc-ggg-pr-fork-clarify later to maint).
139
140 + * Makefile tried to run multiple "cargo build" which would not work
141 + very well; serialize their execution to work it around.
142 + (merge 0eeacde50e da/cargo-serialize later to maint).
143 +
144 + * "git repack --path-walk" lost objects in some corner cases, which
145 + has been corrected.
146 + (merge 93afe9b060 ds/path-walk-repack-fix later to maint).
147 +
148 + * "git ls-files <pathspec>..." should not necessarily have to expand
149 + the index fully if a sparsified directory is excluded by the
150 + pathspec; the code is taught to expand the index on demand to avoid
151 + this.
152 + (merge 681f26bccc ds/ls-files-lazy-unsparse later to maint).
153 +
154 * Other code cleanup, docfix, build fix, etc.
155 (merge 823d537fa7 kh/doc-git-log-markup-fix later to maint).
156 (merge cf7efa4f33 rj/t6137-cygwin-fix later to maint).