The 12th batch

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

Junio C Hamano committed Dec 23, 2025 at 10:37 UTC 66ce5f8e8872f0183bb137911c52b07f1f242d13
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@@ -67,6 +67,17 @@ Performance, Internal Implementation, Development Support etc.
67 and Stop using the insecure "mktemp()" function.
68 (merge 10bba537c4 rs/ban-mktemp later to maint).
69
70 + * In-code comment update to clarify that single-letter options are
71 + outside of the scope of command line completion script.
72 + (merge dc8a00fafe jc/completion-no-single-letter-options later to maint).
73 +
74 + * MEMZERO_ARRAY() helper is introduced to avoid clearing only the
75 + first N bytes of an N-element array whose elements are larger than
76 + a byte.
77 +
78 + * "git diff-files -R --find-copies-harder" has been taught to use
79 + the potential copy sources from the index correctly.
80 +
81
82 Fixes since v2.52
83 -----------------
@@ -177,6 +188,17 @@ Fixes since v2.52
188 * Emulation code clean-up.
189 (merge 42aa7603aa gf/win32-pthread-cond-init later to maint).
190
191 + * "git submodule add" to add a submodule under <name> segfaulted,
192 + when a submodule.<name>.something is already in .gitmodules file
193 + without defining where its submodule.<name>.path is, which has been
194 + corrected.
195 + (merge dd8e8c786e jc/submodule-add later to maint).
196 +
197 + * "git fetch" that involves fetching tags, when a tag being fetched
198 + needs to overwrite existing one, failed to fetch other tags, which
199 + has been corrected.
200 + (merge b7b17ec8a6 kn/fix-fetch-backfill-tag-with-batched-ref-updates later to maint).
201 +
202 * Other code cleanup, docfix, build fix, etc.
203 (merge 46207a54cc qj/doc-http-bad-want-response later to maint).
204 (merge df90eccd93 kh/doc-commit-extra-references later to maint).
@@ -191,3 +213,4 @@ Fixes since v2.52
213 (merge d4b732899e jc/macports-darwinports later to maint).
214 (merge bab391761d kj/pull-options-decl-cleanup later to maint).
215 (merge 007b8994d4 rs/t4014-git-version-string-fix later to maint).
216 + (merge 4ce170c522 ds/doc-scalar-config later to maint).