Merge branch 'sp/refs-with-less-the-repository' into seen #27264

Job	Run time
config	8s
fuzz smoke test	1m 22s
win+VS build	0s
win+Meson build	4m 0s
documentation	7m 33s
win build	5m 19s
rust-analysis	1m 46s
static-analysis	6m 43s
osx-gcc (macos-14)	21m 25s
osx-reftable (macos-14)	5m 18s
osx-meson (macos-14)	17m 56s
osx-clang (macos-14)	16m 54s
sparse	3m 37s
fedora-breaking-changes-meson (fedora:latest)	9m 6s
linux-asan-ubsan (ubuntu:rolling)	34m 39s
linux-leaks (ubuntu:rolling)	18m 16s
linux-reftable (ubuntu:rolling)	13m 12s
linux32 (i386/ubuntu:focal)	10m 18s
linux-breaking-changes (ubuntu:rolling)	12m 32s
linux-TEST-vars (ubuntu:20.04)	11m 53s
linux-meson (ubuntu:rolling)	13m 48s
linux-reftable-leaks (ubuntu:rolling)	21m 48s
linux-musl-meson (alpine:latest)	8m 50s
almalinux-8 (almalinux:8)	10m 31s
debian-11 (debian:11)	10m 57s
linux-sha256 (ubuntu:rolling)	19s
win+VS test	0s
win+Meson test (1)	6m 49s
win+Meson test (0)	7m 4s
win+Meson test (6)	12m 29s
win+Meson test (3)	8m 11s
win+Meson test (5)	8m 27s
win+Meson test (9)	7m 37s
win+Meson test (2)	12m 16s
win+Meson test (7)	8m 1s
win+Meson test (4)	7m 6s
win+Meson test (8)	8m 31s
win test (0)	8m 37s
win test (1)	6m 16s
win test (4)	7m 56s
win test (7)	7m 59s
win test (3)	9m 31s
win test (9)	5m 53s
win test (2)	9m 46s
win test (5)	8m 57s
win test (8)	4m 59s
win test (6)	9m 23s
	7h 13m 58s

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