Git 2.53-rc1

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

Junio C Hamano committed Jan 20, 2026 at 15:22 UTC 83a69f19359e6d9bc980563caca38b2b5729808c
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Documentation/RelNotes/2.53.0.adoc
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@@ -38,6 +38,13 @@ UI, Workflows & Features
38 `--onto` option of "git replay". Test coverage of "git replay" has
39 been improved.
40
41 + * The split command in "git subtree" (in contrib/) has been taught to
42 + deal better with rebased history.
43 +
44 + * The iconv library on macOS fails to correctly handle stateful
45 + ISO/IEC 2022 encoded strings. Work it around instead of replacing
46 + it wholesale from homebrew.
47 +
48
49 Performance, Internal Implementation, Development Support etc.
50 --------------------------------------------------------------
@@ -96,6 +103,13 @@ Performance, Internal Implementation, Development Support etc.
103 * Import newer version of "clar", unit testing framework.
104 (merge 84071a6dea ps/clar-integers later to maint).
105
106 + * The packfile_store data structure is moved from object store to odb
107 + source.
108 +
109 + * The object-info API has been cleaned up.
110 +
111 + * Further preparation to upstream symbolic link support on Windows.
112 +
113
114 Fixes since v2.52
115 -----------------
@@ -259,6 +273,13 @@ Fixes since v2.52
273 "git stash export/import" recently introduced.
274 (merge 02fc44a989 bc/doc-stash-import-export later to maint).
275
276 + * "git fsck" used inconsistent set of refs to show a confused
277 + warning, which has been corrected.
278 +
279 + * Some error messages from the http transport layer lacked the
280 + terminating newline, which has been corrected.
281 + (merge a8227ae8d5 kt/http-backend-errors later to maint).
282 +
283 * Other code cleanup, docfix, build fix, etc.
284 (merge 46207a54cc qj/doc-http-bad-want-response later to maint).
285 (merge df90eccd93 kh/doc-commit-extra-references later to maint).
@@ -288,3 +309,5 @@ Fixes since v2.52
309 (merge 6c5c7e7071 ac/t1420-use-more-direct-check later to maint).
310 (merge 2ac93bfcbc ds/builtin-doc-update later to maint).
311 (merge 3f051fc9c9 kh/doc-patch-id later to maint).
312 + (merge 555c8464e5 je/doc-reset later to maint).
313 + (merge 220f888d7e ps/t1410-cleanup later to maint).