The eleventh batch

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

Junio C Hamano committed Jul 16, 2025 at 09:42 UTC 90c0775e972847832ac8dfa6a14bc4c3abacd914
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@@ -84,6 +84,10 @@ Performance, Internal Implementation, Development Support etc.
84
85 * Code clean-up around object access API.
86
87 + * Define .precision to more canned parse-options type to avoid bugs
88 + coming from using a variable with a wrong type to capture the
89 + parsed values.
90 +
91
92 Fixes since v2.50
93 -----------------
@@ -166,6 +170,14 @@ including security updates, are included in this release.
170 * Leakfix with a new and a bit invasive test on pack-bitmap files.
171 (merge bfd5522e98 ly/load-bitmap-leakfix later to maint).
172
173 + * "git fetch --prune" used to be O(n^2) expensive when there are many
174 + refs, which has been corrected.
175 + (merge 87d8d8c5d0 ph/fetch-prune-optim later to maint).
176 +
177 + * When a ref creation at refs/heads/foo/bar fails, the files backend
178 + now removes refs/heads/foo/ if the directory is otherwise not used.
179 + (merge a3a7f20516 ps/refs-files-remove-empty-parent later to maint).
180 +
181 * Other code cleanup, docfix, build fix, etc.
182 (merge b257adb571 lo/my-first-ow-doc-update later to maint).
183 (merge 8b34b6a220 ly/sequencer-update-squash-is-fixup-only later to maint).
@@ -188,3 +200,4 @@ including security updates, are included in this release.
200 (merge de404249ab ps/perlless-test-fixes later to maint).
201 (merge 953049eed8 ts/merge-orig-head-doc-fix later to maint).
202 (merge 0c83bbc704 rj/freebsd-sysinfo-build-fix later to maint).
203 + (merge ad7780b38f ps/doc-pack-refs-auto-with-files-backend-fix later to maint).