The fourteenth batch

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

Documentation/RelNotes/2.44.0.txt

@@ -81,6 +81,9 @@ UI, Workflows & Features
    and the other version are available to custom 3-way merge driver
    via %S, %X, and %Y placeholders.
 
+ * The write codepath for the reftable data learned to honor
+   core.fsync configuration.
+
 
 Performance, Internal Implementation, Development Support etc.
 
@@ -134,6 +137,10 @@ Performance, Internal Implementation, Development Support etc.
 
  * Tests on ref API are moved around to prepare for reftable.
 
+ * The Makefile often had to say "-L$(path) -R$(path)" that repeats
+   the path to the same library directory for link time and runtime.
+   A Makefile template is used to reduce such repetition.
+
 
 Fixes since v2.43
 -----------------
@@ -265,6 +272,18 @@ Fixes since v2.43
    plan to remove it in the future, which was not our intention.
    (merge 0009542cab jc/ls-files-doc-update later to maint).
 
+ * "git diff --no-index file1 file2" segfaulted while invoking the
+   external diff driver, which has been corrected.
+   (merge 85a9a63c92 jk/diff-external-with-no-index later to maint).
+
+ * Rewrite //-comments to /* comments */ in files whose comments
+   prevalently use the latter.
+   (merge de65079d7b jc/comment-style-fixes later to maint).
+
+ * Cirrus CI jobs started breaking because we specified version of
+   FreeBSD that is no longer available, which has been corrected.
+   (merge 81fffb66d3 cb/use-freebsd-13-2-at-cirrus-ci later to maint).
+
  * Other code cleanup, docfix, build fix, etc.
    (merge 50f1abcff6 js/packfile-h-typofix later to maint).
    (merge cbf498eb53 jb/reflog-expire-delete-dry-run-options later to maint).
@@ -305,3 +324,7 @@ Fixes since v2.43
    (merge af3d2c160f jc/majordomo-to-subspace later to maint).
    (merge ee9895b0ff sd/negotiate-trace-fix later to maint).
    (merge 976d0251ce jc/coc-whitespace-fix later to maint).
+   (merge 9023198280 jt/p4-spell-re-with-raw-string later to maint).
+   (merge 36c9c44fa4 tb/pack-bitmap-drop-unused-struct-member later to maint).
+   (merge 19ed0dff8f js/win32-retry-pipe-write-on-enospc later to maint).
+   (merge 3cb4384683 jc/t0091-with-unknown-git later to maint).