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This is a follow up to #5157 as well as motivated by the RFC in gitgitgadget/git#1786. We have ways of walking all objects, but it is focused on visiting a single commit and then expanding the new trees and blobs reachable from that commit that have not been visited yet. This means that objects arrive without any locality based on their path. Add a new "path walk API" that focuses on walking objects in batches according to their type and path. This will walk all annotated tags, all commits, all root trees, and then start a depth-first search among all paths in the repo to collect trees and blobs in batches. The most important application for this is being fast-tracked to Git for Windows: `git pack-objects --path-walk`. This application of the path walk API discovers the objects to pack via this batched walk, and automatically groups objects that appear at a common path so they can be checked for delta comparisons. This use completely avoids any name-hash collisions (even the collisions that sometimes occur with the new `--full-name-hash` option) and can be much faster to compute since the first pass of delta calculations does not waste time on objects that are unlikely to be diffable. Some statistics are available in the commit messages.
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