Git 2.8.4

Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>

4 files changed, 18 insertions, 3 deletions

diff --git a/Documentation/RelNotes/2.8.4.txt b/Documentation/RelNotes/2.8.4.txt
index 8d484b170a..f4e2552836 100644
--- a/Documentation/RelNotes/2.8.4.txt
+++ b/Documentation/RelNotes/2.8.4.txt
@@ -52,4 +52,18 @@ Fixes since v2.8.3
    result in a strange error message in a pathological corner case.
    This has been corrected to suggest "submodule deinit --all" instead.
 
+ * Many commands normalize command line arguments from NFD to NFC
+   variant of UTF-8 on OSX, but commands in the "diff" family did
+   not, causing "git diff $path" to complain that no such path is
+   known to Git.  They have been taught to do the normalization.
+
+ * A couple of bugs around core.autocrlf have been fixed.
+
+ * "git difftool" learned to handle unmerged paths correctly in
+   dir-diff mode.
+
+ * The "are we talking with TTY, doing an interactive session?"
+   detection has been updated to work better for "Git for Windows".
+
+
 Also contains other minor documentation updates and code clean-ups.
diff --git a/Documentation/git.txt b/Documentation/git.txt
index dd6dbf7dd9..5a10e9b4a0 100644
--- a/Documentation/git.txt
+++ b/Documentation/git.txt
@@ -43,9 +43,10 @@ unreleased) version of Git, that is available from the 'master'
 branch of the `git.git` repository.
 Documentation for older releases are available here:
 
-* link:v2.8.3/git.html[documentation for release 2.8.3]
+* link:v2.8.4/git.html[documentation for release 2.8.4]
 
 * release notes for
+  link:RelNotes/2.8.4.txt[2.8.4],
   link:RelNotes/2.8.3.txt[2.8.3],
   link:RelNotes/2.8.2.txt[2.8.2],
   link:RelNotes/2.8.1.txt[2.8.1],
diff --git a/GIT-VERSION-GEN b/GIT-VERSION-GEN
index 596965a4de..ba8b8cf3c6 100755
--- a/GIT-VERSION-GEN
+++ b/GIT-VERSION-GEN
@@ -1,7 +1,7 @@
 #!/bin/sh
 
 GVF=GIT-VERSION-FILE
-DEF_VER=v2.8.3
+DEF_VER=v2.8.4
 
 LF='
 '
diff --git a/RelNotes b/RelNotes
index eb82eea64f..58fee1e347 120000
--- a/RelNotes
+++ b/RelNotes
@@ -1 +1 @@
-Documentation/RelNotes/2.8.3.txt
\ No newline at end of file
+Documentation/RelNotes/2.8.4.txt
\ No newline at end of file