A bit more before rc1

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

Junio C Hamano committed Nov 4, 2025 at 07:47 UTC 4cf919bd7b946477798af5414a371b23fd68bf93
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Documentation/RelNotes/2.52.0.adoc
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@@ -74,6 +74,8 @@ UI, Workflows & Features
74 avoids doing maintenance tasks that rebuilds everything from
75 scratch.
76
77 + * "git repo structure", a new command.
78 +
79
80 Performance, Internal Implementation, Development Support etc.
81 --------------------------------------------------------------
@@ -165,6 +167,18 @@ Performance, Internal Implementation, Development Support etc.
167 * The code to walk revision graph to compute merge base has been
168 optimized.
169
170 + * AI guidelines has been added to our documentation set.
171 +
172 + * Contributed credential helpers (obviously in contrib/) now have "cd
173 + $there && make install" target.
174 +
175 + * The "MyFirstContribution" tutorial tells the reader how to send out
176 + their patches; the section gained a hint to verify the message
177 + reached the mailing list.
178 +
179 + * The "debug" ref-backend was missing a method implementation, which
180 + has been corrected.
181 +
182
183 Fixes since v2.51
184 -----------------
@@ -397,6 +411,15 @@ including security updates, are included in this release.
411 "foo**/bar" match with "foobar", which has been corrected.
412 (merge 1940a02dc1 jk/match-pathname-fix later to maint).
413
414 + * Tests did not set up GNUPGHOME correctly, which is fixed but some
415 + flaky tests are exposed in t1016, which needs to be addressed
416 + before this topic can move forward.
417 + (merge 6cd8369ef3 tz/test-prepare-gnupghome later to maint).
418 +
419 + * The patterns used in the .gitignore files use backslash in the way
420 + documented for fnmatch(3); document as such to reduce confusion.
421 + (merge 8a6d158a1d jk/doc-backslash-in-exclude later to maint).
422 +
423 * Other code cleanup, docfix, build fix, etc.
424 (merge 529a60a885 ua/t1517-short-help-tests later to maint).
425 (merge 22d421fed9 ac/deglobal-fmt-merge-log-config later to maint).
@@ -409,3 +432,5 @@ including security updates, are included in this release.
432 (merge 15b8abde07 js/mingw-includes-cleanup later to maint).
433 (merge 2cebca0582 tb/cat-file-objectmode-update later to maint).
434 (merge 8f487db07a kh/doc-patch-id-1 later to maint).
435 + (merge f711f37b05 eb/t1016-hash-transition-fix later to maint).
436 + (merge 85333aa1af jk/test-delete-gpgsig-leakfix later to maint).