git, branch v2.52.0-rc0

Git 2.52-rc0

2025-11-03T14:49:55Z

Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano

Merge branch 'rs/merge-base-optim'

2025-11-03T14:49:55Z

The code to walk revision graph to compute merge base has been optimized. * rs/merge-base-optim: commit-reach: avoid commit_list_insert_by_date()

Merge branch 'jk/diff-patch-dry-run-cleanup'

2025-11-03T14:49:55Z

Finishing touches to fixes to the recent regression in "git diff -w --quiet" and anything that needs to internally generate patch to see if it turns empty. * jk/diff-patch-dry-run-cleanup: diff: simplify run_external_diff() quiet logic diff: drop dry-run redirection to /dev/null diff: replace diff_options.dry_run flag with NULL file diff: drop save/restore of color_moved in dry-run mode diff: send external diff output to diff_options.file

Merge branch 'ps/maintenance-geometric'

2025-11-03T14:49:55Z

"git maintenance" command learns the "geometric" strategy where it avoids doing maintenance tasks that rebuilds everything from scratch. * ps/maintenance-geometric: t7900: fix a flaky test due to git-repack always regenerating MIDX builtin/maintenance: introduce "geometric" strategy builtin/maintenance: make "gc" strategy accessible builtin/maintenance: extend "maintenance.strategy" to manual maintenance builtin/maintenance: run maintenance tasks depending on type builtin/maintenance: improve readability of strategies builtin/maintenance: don't silently ignore invalid strategy builtin/maintenance: make the geometric factor configurable builtin/maintenance: introduce "geometric-repack" task builtin/gc: make `too_many_loose_objects()` reusable without GC config builtin/gc: remove global `repack` variable

Merge branch 'jk/match-pathname-fix'

2025-11-03T14:49:55Z

The wildmatch code had a corner case bug that mistakenly makes "foo**/bar" match with "foobar", which has been corrected. * jk/match-pathname-fix: match_pathname(): give fnmatch one char of prefix context match_pathname(): reorder prefix-match check

Merge branch 'kh/doc-patch-id-1'

2025-11-03T14:49:54Z

* kh/doc-patch-id-1: doc: patch-id: convert to the modern synopsis style

Merge branch 'rs/add-patch-quit'

2025-11-03T14:49:54Z

The 'q'(uit) command in "git add -p" has been improved to quit without doing any meaningless work before leaving, and giving EOF (typically control-D) to the prompt is made to behave the same way. * rs/add-patch-quit: add-patch: quit on EOF add-patch: quit without skipping undecided hunks

The 27th batch

2025-10-30T15:00:20Z

Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano

Merge branch 'rz/bisect-help-unknown'

2025-10-30T15:00:20Z

"git bisect" command did not react correctly to "git bisect help" and "git bisect unknown", which has been corrected. * rz/bisect-help-unknown: bisect: fix handling of `help` and invalid subcommands

Merge branch 'kf/log-shortlog-completion-fix'

2025-10-30T15:00:20Z

"git shortlog" knows "--committer" and "--author" options, which the command line completion (in contrib/) did not handle well, which has been corrected. * kf/log-shortlog-completion-fix: completion: complete some 'git log' options