The fifth batch

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

Junio C Hamano committed Jun 30, 2025 at 14:30 UTC 83014dc05f6fc9275c0a02886cb428805abaf9e5
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24 which is its modern rough equivalent has outlived its usefulness
25 more than 10 years ago. Plan to deprecate and remove it.
26
27 + * An interchange format for stash entries is defined, and subcommand
28 + of "git stash" to import/export has been added.
29 +
30 + * "git merge/pull" has been taught the "--compact-summary" option to
31 + use the compact-summary format, intead of diffstat, when showing
32 + the summary of the incoming changes.
33 +
34
35 Performance, Internal Implementation, Development Support etc.
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@@ -41,6 +48,9 @@ Performance, Internal Implementation, Development Support etc.
48 * "Do not explicitly initialize to zero" rule has been clarified in
49 the CodingGuidelines document.
50
51 + * A test helper "test_seq" function learned the "-f <fmt>" option,
52 + which allowed us to simplify a lot of test scripts.
53 +
54
55 Fixes since v2.50
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88 has been remedied.
89 (merge 1b5074e614 ps/maintenance-ref-lock later to maint).
90
91 + * Avoid regexp_constraint and instead use comparison_constraint when
92 + listing functions to exclude from application of coccinelle rules,
93 + as spatch can be built with different regexp engine X-<.
94 + (merge f2ad545813 jc/cocci-avoid-regexp-constraint later to maint).
95 +
96 * Other code cleanup, docfix, build fix, etc.
97 (merge b257adb571 lo/my-first-ow-doc-update later to maint).
98 (merge 8b34b6a220 ly/sequencer-update-squash-is-fixup-only later to maint).