A few on top of -rc1

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

Junio C Hamano committed Jan 21, 2026 at 13:58 UTC 1faf5b085a171f9ba9a6d7a446e0de16acccb1dc
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Documentation/RelNotes/2.53.0.adoc
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@@ -110,6 +110,10 @@ Performance, Internal Implementation, Development Support etc.
110
111 * Further preparation to upstream symbolic link support on Windows.
112
113 + * Remove implicit reliance on the_repository global in the APIs
114 + around tree objects and make it explicit which repository to work
115 + in.
116 +
117
118 Fixes since v2.52
119 -----------------
@@ -280,6 +284,12 @@ Fixes since v2.52
284 terminating newline, which has been corrected.
285 (merge a8227ae8d5 kt/http-backend-errors later to maint).
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287 + * "git repack --geometric" did not work with promisor packs, which
288 + has been corrected.
289 +
290 + * The logic that avoids reusing MIDX files with a wrong checksum was
291 + broken, which has been corrected.
292 +
293 * Other code cleanup, docfix, build fix, etc.
294 (merge 46207a54cc qj/doc-http-bad-want-response later to maint).
295 (merge df90eccd93 kh/doc-commit-extra-references later to maint).
@@ -311,3 +321,4 @@ Fixes since v2.52
321 (merge 3f051fc9c9 kh/doc-patch-id later to maint).
322 (merge 555c8464e5 je/doc-reset later to maint).
323 (merge 220f888d7e ps/t1410-cleanup later to maint).
324 + (merge 5814b04c02 ps/config-doc-get-urlmatch-fix later to maint).