### New Features
- `Stage::entry_index_by_path_and_stage()`, now with `::entry_by_path_and_stage()`
- `State::entry_by_path_and_stage()` to find entries.
- `Debug` and `Clone` for `File`
### Commit Statistics
- 60 commits contributed to the release over the course of 22 calendar days.
- 26 days passed between releases.
- 3 commits where understood as [conventional](https://www.conventionalcommits.org).
- 2 unique issues were worked on: #427, #XXX
### Thanks Clippy
[Clippy](https://github.com/rust-lang/rust-clippy) helped 5 times to make code idiomatic.
### Commit Details
* **#427**
- make fmt (4b320e7)
- fix docs (5a0d6b7)
- `Stage::entry_index_by_path_and_stage()`, now with `::entry_by_path_and_stage()` (6d8d5e6)
- `State::entry_by_path_and_stage()` to find entries. (55363ea)
- refactor; prepare for entry-lookup by path (92de081)
- `Debug` and `Clone` for `File` (40e6bde)
* **#XXX**
- add tests to run into long-paths special case (d7a8a7d)
* **Uncategorized**
- prepare changelogs prior to reelase (c06ae1c)
- Release git-hash v0.9.7, git-features v0.22.1 (232784a)
- fix CI for good (e0c0b8c)
- fix CI (2433be1)
- refactor (3af5121)
- refactor (b41d93a)
- thanks clippy (4390c32)
- run tests against all input files we have (de8abe6)
- combine more tests into one to reduce duplication (933ad9e)
- Assure that extended flags receive version 3; make `version` an implementation detail (6d810a1)
- Support for extended flags, and V3 as it's a requirements. (417d90e)
- refcator (27993c0)
- fix tree ext reading and writing; round-trip with long path works now (f93febe)
- first PoC for writing long paths, even though it doens't produce the entire file yet (581cbd7)
- Merge branch 'format_git_date_time' (99e12be)
- Make it more explicit to write all available extensions by default (fbe9815)
- fix docs (9861a6c)
- thanks clippy (834be93)
- thanks clippy (9b3a940)
- generalize extension writing so that writing more will be easier (8ef5378)
- generalize EOIE exstension writing (18b722e)
- provide a stand-alone way of writing end-of-index extensions (7ca297a)
- refactor (a5b2ef9)
- additional validation (ee7b5bb)
- refactor (e35aac6)
- refactor (52386f4)
- refactor (75a2338)
- refactor (f6f2861)
- refactor (6cf9277)
- refactor (a6354c0)
- Merge branch 'main' into write-index-v2 (a938986)
- Fill in all remaining documentation, raise `git-index` to 'usable' state (3568ae3)
- first step towards everything being documented (919923c)
- remove quickerror in favor of thiserror (dd7ce3f)
- refactor (618736b)
- refactor (4dda27e)
- added test for eoie extension (a433c0d)
- estimate vector size for tree entries (74455e6)
- implemented File::write_to for hashed write (6b6db34)
- refactor and add more tests (6b32bcf)
- Merge branch 'write-index-files' into write-index-v2 (cddc2ca)
- thanks clippy (a66403c)
- write wrapper to count written bytes (b147090)
- refactor test (33a3009)
- refactor... (81eef35)
- refactor tests... (3a9b51b)
- convert 'in-memory' flags to 'storage' flags (017377d)
- Merge branch 'write-index-files' into rev-parse-delegate (370110d)
- small improvements (e5cb6d9)
- fix pathname in test (1f18e19)
- thanks clippy (3f72180)
- sucesfully writing the first basic index files (a9c6f22)
- Merge pull request #2 from SidneyDouw/main (ce885ad)