The second batch

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

Junio C Hamano committed Mar 29, 2025 at 14:02 UTC 5b97a56fa0e7d580dc8865b73107407c9b3f0eff
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@@ -17,6 +17,26 @@ Performance, Internal Implementation, Development Support etc.
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18 * "git fsck" becomes more careful when checking the refs.
19
20 + * "git fast-export | git fast-import" learns to deal with commit and
21 + tag objects with embedded signatures a bit better.
22 +
23 + * The code paths to check whether a refname X is available (by seeing
24 + if another ref X/Y exists, etc.) have been optimized.
25 +
26 + * First step of deprecating and removing merge-recursive.
27 +
28 + * In protocol v2 where the refs advertisement is constrained, we try
29 + to tell the server side not to limit the advertisement when there
30 + is no specific need to, which has been the source of confusion and
31 + recent bugs. Revamp the logic to simplify.
32 +
33 + * Update meson based build procedure for breaking changes support.
34 +
35 + * Enable -Wunreachable-code for developer builds.
36 +
37 + * Build update.
38 + (merge 7c8cd9c158 es/meson-building-docs-requires-perl later to maint).
39 +
40
41 Fixes since v2.49
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@@ -30,5 +50,19 @@ Fixes since v2.49
50 when certain renames are involved.
51 (merge 3adba40858 en/merge-process-renames-crash-fix later to maint).
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53 + * Certain "cruft" objects would have never been refreshed when there
54 + are multiple cruft packs in the repository, which has been
55 + corrected.
56 + (merge 08f612ba70 tb/multi-cruft-pack-refresh-fix later to maint).
57 +
58 + * The xdiff code on 32-bit platform misbehaved when an insanely large
59 + context size is given, which has been corrected.
60 + (merge d39e28e68c rs/xdiff-context-length-fix later to maint).
61 +
62 * Other code cleanup, docfix, build fix, etc.
63 (merge 227c4f33a0 ja/doc-block-delimiter-markup-fix later to maint).
64 + (merge 2bfd3b3685 ab/decorate-code-cleanup later to maint).
65 + (merge 5337daddc7 am/dir-dedup-decl-of-repository later to maint).
66 + (merge 554051d691 en/diff-rename-follow-fix later to maint).
67 + (merge a18c18b470 en/random-cleanups later to maint).
68 + (merge 5af21c9acb hj/doc-rev-list-ancestry-fix later to maint).