From d8af7cadaa79d5837d73ec949e10b57dedb43e9b Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Date: Sun, 14 Dec 2025 17:04:17 +0900
Subject: The eighth batch

Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
---
 Documentation/RelNotes/2.53.0.adoc | 18 ++++++++++++++++++
 1 file changed, 18 insertions(+)

(limited to 'Documentation/RelNotes/2.53.0.adoc')

diff --git a/Documentation/RelNotes/2.53.0.adoc b/Documentation/RelNotes/2.53.0.adoc
index 38cbd2186e..41ae2a5a7a 100644
--- a/Documentation/RelNotes/2.53.0.adoc
+++ b/Documentation/RelNotes/2.53.0.adoc
@@ -26,6 +26,11 @@ UI, Workflows & Features
  * The use of "revision" (a connected set of commits) has been
    clarified in the "git replay" documentation.
 
+ * A help message from "git branch" now mentions "git help" instead of
+   "man" when suggesting to read some documentation.
+
+ * "git repo struct" learned to take "-z" as a synonym to "--format=nul".
+
 
 Performance, Internal Implementation, Development Support etc.
 --------------------------------------------------------------
@@ -51,6 +56,10 @@ Performance, Internal Implementation, Development Support etc.
 
  * Code refactoring around object database sources.
 
+ * Halve the memory consumed by artificial filepairs created during
+   "git diff --find-copioes-harder", also making the operation run
+   faster.
+
 
 Fixes since v2.52
 -----------------
@@ -150,9 +159,18 @@ Fixes since v2.52
  * The way patience diff finds LCS has been optimized.
    (merge c7e3b8085b yc/xdiff-patience-optim later to maint).
 
+ * Recent optimization to "last-modified" command introduced use of
+   uninitialized block of memory, which has been corrected.
+   (merge fe4e60759b tc/last-modified-active-paths-optimization later to maint).
+
+ * "git last-modified" used to mishandle "--" to mark the beginning of
+   pathspec, which has been corrected.
+   (merge 05491b90ce js/last-modified-with-sparse-checkouts later to maint).
+
  * Other code cleanup, docfix, build fix, etc.
    (merge 46207a54cc qj/doc-http-bad-want-response later to maint).
    (merge df90eccd93 kh/doc-commit-extra-references later to maint).
    (merge f18aa68861 rs/xmkstemp-simplify later to maint).
    (merge fddba8f737 ja/doc-synopsis-style later to maint).
    (merge 22ce0cb639 en/xdiff-cleanup-2 later to maint).
+   (merge 8ef7355a8f je/doc-pull later to maint).
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