The 4th batch

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

Junio C Hamano committed Feb 13, 2026 at 12:57 UTC 852829b3dd2fe4e7c7fc4d8badde644cf1b66c74
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@@ -33,6 +33,26 @@ Performance, Internal Implementation, Development Support etc.
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34 * Improve set-up time of a perf test.
35
36 + * ISO C23 redefines strchr and friends that tradiotionally took
37 + a const pointer and returned a non-const pointer derived from it to
38 + preserve constness (i.e., if you ask for a substring in a const
39 + string, you get a const pointer to the substring). Update code
40 + paths that used non-const pointer to receive their results that did
41 + not have to be non-const to adjust.
42 + (merge fc9fd8065c cf/c23-const-preserving-strchr-updates-0 later to maint).
43 +
44 + * Rename three functions around the commit_list data structure.
45 + (merge 9f18d089c5 ps/commit-list-functions-renamed later to maint).
46 +
47 + * Transaction to create objects (or not) is currently tied to the
48 + repository, but in the future a repository can have multiple object
49 + sources, which may have different transaction mechanisms. Make the
50 + odb transaction API per object source.
51 + (merge 3f67e3d021 jt/odb-transaction-per-source later to maint).
52 +
53 + * "git merge-ours" is taught to work better in a sparse checkout.
54 + (merge fb1b786ebf sb/merge-ours-sparse later to maint).
55 +
56
57 Fixes since v2.53
58 -----------------
@@ -59,6 +79,17 @@ Fixes since v2.53
79 gets blamed for.
80 (merge d519082d4e rs/blame-ignore-colors-fix later to maint).
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82 + * Coccinelle rules update.
83 + (merge 60614838a4 tc/memzero-array later to maint).
84 +
85 + * Giving "git last-modified" a tree (not a commit-ish) died an
86 + uncontrolled death, which has been corrected.
87 + (merge 525ef52301 tc/last-modified-not-a-tree later to maint).
88 +
89 + * Test contrib/ things in CI to catch breakages before they enter the
90 + "next" branch.
91 + (merge c591c3ceff jc/ci-test-contrib-too later to maint).
92 +
93 * Other code cleanup, docfix, build fix, etc.
94 (merge d79fff4a11 jk/remote-tracking-ref-leakfix later to maint).
95 (merge 7a747f972d dd/t5403-modernise later to maint).
@@ -68,3 +99,7 @@ Fixes since v2.53
99 (merge df1c5d7ed7 kh/doc-shortlog-fix later to maint).
100 (merge 2d45507f15 am/doc-github-contributiong-link-to-submittingpatches later to maint).
101 (merge 68060b9262 hs/t9160-test-paths later to maint).
102 + (merge 486386c687 cs/subtree-reftable-testfix later to maint).
103 + (merge 0728012c53 jc/diff-highlight-main-master-testfix later to maint).
104 + (merge 831989ef38 mc/doc-send-email-signed-off-by-cc later to maint).
105 + (merge c44b3f3203 sd/doc-my1c-api-config-reference-fix later to maint).