The seventeenth batch, just before -rc0

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

Junio C Hamano committed Aug 3, 2025 at 18:44 UTC e0753259271b76f6e53b3b170b4bc08cca793bca
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Documentation/RelNotes/2.51.0.adoc
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@@ -61,6 +61,9 @@ UI, Workflows & Features
61 * "git pull" learned to pay attention to pull.autostash configuration
62 variable, which overrides rebase/merge.autostash.
63
64 + * "git for-each-ref" learns "--start-after" option to help
65 + applications that want to page its output.
66 +
67
68 Performance, Internal Implementation, Development Support etc.
69 --------------------------------------------------------------
@@ -125,6 +128,11 @@ Performance, Internal Implementation, Development Support etc.
128 * The reftable unit tests are now ported to the "clar" unit testing
129 framework.
130
131 + * Redefine where the multi-pack-index sits in the object subsystem,
132 + which recently was restructured to allow multiple backends that
133 + support a single object source that belongs to one repository. A
134 + midx does span mulitple "object sources".
135 +
136
137 Fixes since v2.50
138 -----------------
@@ -252,6 +260,15 @@ including security updates, are included in this release.
260 core.commentstring is set to 'auto'.
261 (merge 92b7c7c9f5 ac/auto-comment-char-fix later to maint).
262
263 + * "git rebase -i" with bogus rebase.instructionFormat configuration
264 + failed to produce the todo file after recording the state files,
265 + leading to confused "git status"; this has been corrected.
266 + (merge ade14bffd7 ow/rebase-verify-insn-fmt-before-initializing-state later to maint).
267 +
268 + * A few file descriptors left unclosed upon program completion in a
269 + few test helper programs are now closed.
270 + (merge 0f1b33815b hl/test-helper-fd-close later to maint).
271 +
272 * Other code cleanup, docfix, build fix, etc.
273 (merge b257adb571 lo/my-first-ow-doc-update later to maint).
274 (merge 8b34b6a220 ly/sequencer-update-squash-is-fixup-only later to maint).