The fourth batch

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

Junio C Hamano committed Nov 26, 2025 at 10:22 UTC b31ab939fe8e3cbe8be48dddd1c6ac0265991f45
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@@ -11,6 +11,8 @@ UI, Workflows & Features
11 in a transaction by default, instead of emitting where each refs
12 should point at and leaving the actual update to another command.
13
14 + * "git blame" learns "--diff-algorithm=<algo>" option.
15 +
16
17 Performance, Internal Implementation, Development Support etc.
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@@ -57,6 +59,43 @@ Fixes since v2.52
59 corrected.
60 (merge 7a03a10a3a jx/repo-struct-utf8width-fix later to maint).
61
62 + * Yet another corner case fix around renames in the "ort" merge
63 + strategy.
64 + (merge a562d90a35 en/ort-rename-another-fix later to maint).
65 +
66 + * Test leakfix.
67 + (merge 14b561e768 jk/test-mktemp-leakfix later to maint).
68 +
69 + * Update a version of action used at the GitHub Actrions CI.
70 + (merge cd99203f86 js/ci-github-setup-go-update later to maint).
71 +
72 + * The "return errno = EFOO, -1" construct, which is heavily used in
73 + compat/mingw.c and triggers warnings under "-Wcomma", has been
74 + rewritten to avoid the warnings.
75 + (merge af3919816f js/mingw-assign-comma-fix later to maint).
76 +
77 + * Makefile based build have recently been updated to build a
78 + libgit.a that also has reftable and xdiff objects; CMake based
79 + build procedure has been updated to match.
80 + (merge b0d5c88cca js/cmake-libgit-fix later to maint).
81 +
82 + * Under-allocation fix.
83 + (merge d22a488482 js/wincred-get-credential-alloc-fix later to maint).
84 +
85 + * "git worktree list" attempts to show paths to worktrees while
86 + aligning them, but miscounted display columns for the paths when
87 + non-ASCII characters were involved, which has been corrected.
88 + (merge 08dfa59835 pw/worktree-list-display-width-fix later to maint).
89 +
90 + * "Windows+meson" job at the GitHub Actions CI was hard to debug, as
91 + it did not show and save failed test artifacts, which has been
92 + corrected.
93 + (merge 17bd1108ea jk/ci-windows-meson-test-fix later to maint).
94 +
95 + * Emulation code clean-up.
96 + (merge 2367c6bcd6 gf/win32-pthread-cond-wait-err later to maint).
97 +
98 * Other code cleanup, docfix, build fix, etc.
99 (merge 46207a54cc qj/doc-http-bad-want-response later to maint).
100 (merge df90eccd93 kh/doc-commit-extra-references later to maint).
101 + (merge f18aa68861 rs/xmkstemp-simplify later to maint).