git, branch v2.51.2

Git 2.51.2

2025-10-27T02:48:21Z

Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano

Merge branch 'so/t2401-use-test-path-helpers' into maint-2.51

2025-10-27T02:48:21Z

Test modernization. * so/t2401-use-test-path-helpers: t2401: update path checks using test_path helpers

Merge branch 'js/ci-github-actions-update' into maint-2.51

2025-10-27T02:48:20Z

CI update. * js/ci-github-actions-update: build(deps): bump actions/github-script from 7 to 8 build(deps): bump actions/setup-python from 5 to 6 build(deps): bump actions/checkout from 4 to 5 build(deps): bump actions/download-artifact from 4 to 5

Merge branch 'kh/doc-continued-paragraph-fix' into maint-2.51

2025-10-27T02:48:20Z

Doc mark-up fixes. * kh/doc-continued-paragraph-fix: doc: fix accidental literal blocks

Merge branch 'js/unreachable-workaround-for-no-symlink-head' into maint-2.51

2025-10-27T02:48:20Z

Code clean-up. * js/unreachable-workaround-for-no-symlink-head: refs: forbid clang to complain about unreachable code

Merge branch 'ps/t7528-ssh-agent-uds-workaround' into maint-2.51

2025-10-27T02:48:20Z

Recent OpenSSH creates the Unix domain socket to communicate with ssh-agent under $HOME instead of /tmp, which causes our test to fail doe to overly long pathname in our test environment, which has been worked around by using "ssh-agent -T". * ps/t7528-ssh-agent-uds-workaround: t7528: work around ETOOMANY in OpenSSH 10.1 and newer

Merge branch 'tb/unicode-width-table-17' into maint-2.51

2025-10-27T02:48:19Z

Unicode width table update. * tb/unicode-width-table-17: unicode: update the width tables to Unicode 17

Merge branch 'jk/status-z-short-fix' into maint-2.51

2025-10-27T02:48:19Z

The "--short" option of "git status" that meant output for humans and "-z" option to show NUL delimited output format did not mix well, and colored some but not all things. The command has been updated to color all elements consistently in such a case. * jk/status-z-short-fix: status: make coloring of "-z --short" consistent

Merge branch 'jk/diff-no-index-with-pathspec-fix' into maint-2.51

2025-10-27T02:48:19Z

An earlier addition to "git diff --no-index A B" to limit the output with pathspec after the two directories misbehaved when these directories were given with a trailing slash, which has been corrected. * jk/diff-no-index-with-pathspec-fix: diff --no-index: fix logic for paths ending in '/'

Merge branch 'ps/gitlab-ci-disable-windows-monitoring' into maint-2.51

2025-10-27T02:48:19Z

Windows "real-time monitoring" interferes with the execution of tests and affects negatively in both correctness and performance, which has been disabled in Gitlab CI. * ps/gitlab-ci-disable-windows-monitoring: gitlab-ci: disable realtime monitoring to unbreak Windows jobs