Git 2.51-rc1

Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
diff --git a/Documentation/RelNotes/2.51.0.adoc b/Documentation/RelNotes/2.51.0.adoc
index e2cd673..a73ea3e 100644
--- a/Documentation/RelNotes/2.51.0.adoc
+++ b/Documentation/RelNotes/2.51.0.adoc
@@ -297,6 +297,10 @@
    before.
    (merge 5ed8c5b465 kj/renamed-submodule later to maint).
 
+ * The deflate codepath in "git archive --format=zip" had a
+   longstanding bug coming from misuse of zlib API, which has been
+   corrected.
+
  * 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).
@@ -333,3 +337,5 @@
    (merge 3bdd897413 ms/meson-with-ancient-git-wo-ls-files-dedup later to maint).
    (merge cca758d324 kh/doc-fast-import-historical later to maint).
    (merge 9b0781196a jc/test-hashmap-is-still-here later to maint).
+   (merge 1bad05bacc jk/revert-squelch-compiler-warning later to maint).
+   (merge 3a7e783d9c dl/squelch-maybe-uninitialized later to maint).
diff --git a/GIT-VERSION-GEN b/GIT-VERSION-GEN
index 63463c8..e7e9119 100755
--- a/GIT-VERSION-GEN
+++ b/GIT-VERSION-GEN
@@ -1,6 +1,6 @@
 #!/bin/sh
 
-DEF_VER=v2.50.GIT
+DEF_VER=v2.51.0-rc1
 
 LF='
 '