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+Git v2.51 Release Notes
+=======================
+
+UI, Workflows & Features
+------------------------
+
+ * Userdiff patterns for the R language have been added.
+
+ * Documentation for "git send-email" has been updated with a bit more
+   credential helper and OAuth information.
+
+ * "git cat-file --batch" learns to understand %(objectmode) atom to
+   allow the caller to tell missing objects (due to repository
+   corruption) and submodules (whose commit objects are OK to be
+   missing) apart.
+
+ * "git diff --no-index dirA dirB" can limit the comparison with
+   pathspec at the end of the command line, just like normal "git
+   diff".
+
+ * "git subtree" (in contrib/) learned to grok GPG signing its commits.
+
+
+Performance, Internal Implementation, Development Support etc.
+--------------------------------------------------------------
+
+ * "git pack-objects" learned to find delta bases from blobs at the
+   same path, using the --path-walk API.
+
+ * CodingGuidelines update.
+
+ * Add settings for Solaris 10 & 11.
+
+ * Meson-based build/test framework now understands TAP output
+   generated by our tests.
+
+ * "Do not explicitly initialize to zero" rule has been clarified in
+   the CodingGuidelines document.
+
+
+Fixes since v2.50
+-----------------
+
+ * A memory-leak in an error code path has been plugged.
+   (merge 7082da85cb ly/commit-graph-graph-write-leakfix later to maint).
+
+ * A memory-leak in an error code path has been plugged.
+   (merge aedebdb6b9 ly/fetch-pack-leakfix later to maint).
+
+ * Some leftover references to documentation source files that no
+   longer exist, due to recent ".txt" -> ".adoc" renaming, have been
+   corrected.
+   (merge 3717a5775a jw/doc-txt-to-adoc-refs later to maint).
+
+ * "git stash -p <pathspec>" improvements.
+   (merge 468817bab2 pw/stash-p-pathspec-fixes later to maint).
+
+ * "git send-email" incremented its internal message counter when a
+   message was edited, which made logic that treats the first message
+   specially misbehave, which has been corrected.
+   (merge 2cc27b3501 ag/send-email-edit-threading-fix later to maint).
+
+ * "git stash" recorded a wrong branch name when submodules are
+   present in the current checkout, which has been corrected.
+   (merge ffb36c64f2 kj/stash-onbranch-submodule-fix later to maint).
+
+ * When asking to apply mailmap to both author and committer field
+   while showing a commit object, the field that appears later was not
+   correctly parsed and replaced, which has been corrected.
+   (merge abf94a283f sa/multi-mailmap-fix later to maint).
+
+ * Other code cleanup, docfix, build fix, etc.
+   (merge b257adb571 lo/my-first-ow-doc-update later to maint).
+   (merge 8b34b6a220 ly/sequencer-update-squash-is-fixup-only later to maint).
+   (merge 5dceb8bd05 ly/do-not-localize-bug-messages later to maint).
+   (merge 61372dd613 ly/commit-buffer-reencode-leakfix later to maint).
+   (merge 81cd1eef7d ly/pack-bitmap-root-leakfix later to maint).
+   (merge bfc9f9cc64 ly/submodule-update-failure-leakfix later to maint).
+   (merge 65dff89c6b ma/doc-diff-cc-headers later to maint).
+   (merge efb61591ee jm/bundle-uri-debug-output-to-fp later to maint).
+   (merge a3d278bb64 ly/prepare-show-merge-leakfix later to maint).
+   (merge 1fde1c5daf ac/preload-index-wo-the-repository later to maint).
+   (merge 855cfc65ae rm/t2400-modernize later to maint).
+   (merge 2939494284 ly/run-builtin-use-passed-in-repo later to maint).