The nineteenth batch

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

Junio C Hamano committed Oct 14, 2025 at 12:49 UTC aea86cf00f524c9684eeab4b375cf42155ca606a
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Documentation/RelNotes/2.52.0.adoc
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@@ -47,6 +47,14 @@ UI, Workflows & Features
47 * "git fast-import" learned that "--signed-commits=<how>" option that
48 corresponds to that of "git fast-export".
49
50 + * Marking a hunk 'selected' in "git add -p" and then splitting made
51 + all the split pieces 'selected'; this has been changed to make them
52 + all 'undecided', which gives better end-user experience.
53 +
54 + * Configuration variables that take a pathname as a value
55 + (e.g. blame.ignorerevsfile) can be marked as optional by prefixing
56 + ":(optoinal)" before its value.
57 +
58
59 Performance, Internal Implementation, Development Support etc.
60 --------------------------------------------------------------
@@ -116,6 +124,9 @@ Performance, Internal Implementation, Development Support etc.
124 * Dip our toes a bit to (optionally) use Rust implemented helper
125 called from our C code.
126
127 + * Documentation for "git log --pretty" options has been updated
128 + to make it easier to translate.
129 +
130
131 Fixes since v2.51
132 -----------------
@@ -308,6 +319,16 @@ including security updates, are included in this release.
319 carefully.
320 (merge 466a3a1afd kn/reftable-consistency-checks later to maint).
321
322 + * A lot of code clean-up of xdiff.
323 + Split out of a larger topic.
324 + (merge 8b9c5d2e3a en/xdiff-cleanup later to maint).
325 +
326 + * "git format-patch --range-diff=... --notes=..." did not drive the
327 + underlying range-diff with correct --notes parameter, ending up
328 + comparing with different set of notes from its main patch output
329 + you would get from "git format-patch --notes=..." for a singleton
330 + patch.
331 +
332 * Other code cleanup, docfix, build fix, etc.
333 (merge 823d537fa7 kh/doc-git-log-markup-fix later to maint).
334 (merge cf7efa4f33 rj/t6137-cygwin-fix later to maint).
@@ -337,3 +358,4 @@ including security updates, are included in this release.
358 (merge fdd21ba116 mh/doc-credential-url-prefix later to maint).
359 (merge 1c573a3451 en/doc-merge-tree-describe-merge-base later to maint).
360 (merge 84a6bf7965 ja/doc-markup-attached-paragraph-fix later to maint).
361 + (merge 399694384b kh/doc-patch-id-markup-fix later to maint).