The eighth batch

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

Junio C Hamano committed Dec 14, 2025 at 17:04 UTC d8af7cadaa79d5837d73ec949e10b57dedb43e9b
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Documentation/RelNotes/2.53.0.adoc
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@@ -26,6 +26,11 @@ UI, Workflows & Features
26 * The use of "revision" (a connected set of commits) has been
27 clarified in the "git replay" documentation.
28
29 + * A help message from "git branch" now mentions "git help" instead of
30 + "man" when suggesting to read some documentation.
31 +
32 + * "git repo struct" learned to take "-z" as a synonym to "--format=nul".
33 +
34
35 Performance, Internal Implementation, Development Support etc.
36 --------------------------------------------------------------
@@ -51,6 +56,10 @@ Performance, Internal Implementation, Development Support etc.
56
57 * Code refactoring around object database sources.
58
59 + * Halve the memory consumed by artificial filepairs created during
60 + "git diff --find-copioes-harder", also making the operation run
61 + faster.
62 +
63
64 Fixes since v2.52
65 -----------------
@@ -150,9 +159,18 @@ Fixes since v2.52
159 * The way patience diff finds LCS has been optimized.
160 (merge c7e3b8085b yc/xdiff-patience-optim later to maint).
161
162 + * Recent optimization to "last-modified" command introduced use of
163 + uninitialized block of memory, which has been corrected.
164 + (merge fe4e60759b tc/last-modified-active-paths-optimization later to maint).
165 +
166 + * "git last-modified" used to mishandle "--" to mark the beginning of
167 + pathspec, which has been corrected.
168 + (merge 05491b90ce js/last-modified-with-sparse-checkouts later to maint).
169 +
170 * Other code cleanup, docfix, build fix, etc.
171 (merge 46207a54cc qj/doc-http-bad-want-response later to maint).
172 (merge df90eccd93 kh/doc-commit-extra-references later to maint).
173 (merge f18aa68861 rs/xmkstemp-simplify later to maint).
174 (merge fddba8f737 ja/doc-synopsis-style later to maint).
175 (merge 22ce0cb639 en/xdiff-cleanup-2 later to maint).
176 + (merge 8ef7355a8f je/doc-pull later to maint).