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 ### Changes or improvements
 
+* `GIT_MERGE_OPTIONS_INIT` now includes a setting to perform rename detection.
+  This aligns this structure with the default by `git_merge` and
+  `git_merge_trees` when `NULL` was provided for the options.
+
 ### API additions
 
 ### API removals