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+Git v1.7.4.5 Release Notes
+==========================
+
+This contains only minor documentation fixes accumulated since 1.7.4.4.
diff --git a/Documentation/RelNotes/1.7.5.1.txt b/Documentation/RelNotes/1.7.5.1.txt
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+Git v1.7.5.1 Release Notes
+==========================
+
+Fixes since v1.7.5
+------------------
+
+ * When an object "$tree:$path" does not exist, if $path does exist in the
+ subtree of $tree that corresponds to the subdirectory the user is in,
+ git now suggests using "$tree:./$path" in addition to the advice to use
+ the full path from the root of the working tree.
+
+ * The "--date=relative" output format used to say "X years, 12 months"
+ when it should have said "X+1 years".
+
+ * The smart-HTTP transfer was broken in 1.7.5 when the client needs
+ to issue a small POST (which uses content-length) and then a large
+ POST (which uses chunked) back to back.
+
+ * "git clean" used to fail on an empty directory that is not readable,
+ even though rmdir(2) could remove such a directory. Now we attempt it
+ as the last resort.
+
+ * The "--dirstat" option of "diff" family of commands used to totally
+ ignore a change that only rearranged lines within a file. Such a
+ change now counts as at least a minimum but non zero change.
+
+ * The "--dirstat" option of "diff" family of commands used to use the
+ pathname in the original, instead of the pathname in the result,
+ when renames are involved.
+
+ * "git pack-object" did not take core.bigfilethreashold into account
+ (unlike fast-import); now it does.
+
+ * "git reflog" ignored options like "--format=.." on the command line.
+
+ * "git stash apply" used to refuse to work if there was any change in
+ the working tree, even when the change did not overlap with the change
+ the stash recorded.
+
+ * "git stash apply @{99999}" was not diagnosed as an error, even when you
+ did not have that many stash entries.
+
+ * An error message from "git send-email" to diagnose a broken SMTP
+ connection configuration lacked a space between "hello=<smtp-domain>"
+ and "port=<smtp-server-port>".
+
+And other minor fixes and documentation updates.
diff --git a/Documentation/RelNotes/1.7.5.txt b/Documentation/RelNotes/1.7.5.txt
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+Git v1.7.5 Release Notes
+========================
+
+Updates since v1.7.4
+--------------------
+
+ * Various MinGW portability fixes.
+
+ * Various git-p4 enhancements (in contrib).
+
+ * Various vcs-svn, git-svn and gitk enhancements and fixes.
+
+ * Various git-gui updates (0.14.0).
+
+ * Update to more modern HP-UX port.
+
+ * The codebase is getting prepared for i18n/l10n; no translated
+ strings nor translation mechanism in the code yet, but the strings
+ are being marked for l10n.
+
+ * The bash completion script can now complete symmetric difference
+ for "git diff" command, e.g. "git diff ...bra<TAB>".
+
+ * The default minimum length of abbreviated and unique object names
+ can now be configured by setting the core.abbrev configuration
+ variable.
+
+ * "git apply -v" reports offset lines when the patch does not apply at
+ the exact location recorded in the diff output.
+
+ * "git config" used to be also known as "git repo-config", but the old
+ name is now officially deprecated.
+
+ * "git checkout --detach <commit>" is a more user friendly synonym for
+ "git checkout <commit>^0".
+
+ * "git checkout" performed on detached HEAD gives a warning and
+ advice when the commit being left behind will become unreachable from
+ any branch or tag.
+
+ * "git cherry-pick" and "git revert" can be told to use a custom merge
+ strategy, similar to "git rebase".
+
+ * "git cherry-pick" remembers which commit failed to apply when it is
+ stopped by conflicts, making it unnecessary to use "commit -c $commit"
+ to conclude it.
+
+ * "git cvsimport" bails out immediately when the cvs server cannot be
+ reached, without spewing unnecessary error messages that complain about
+ the server response it never got.
+
+ * "git fetch" vs "git upload-pack" transfer learned 'no-done'
+ protocol extension to save one round-trip after the content
+ negotiation is done. This saves one HTTP RPC, reducing the overall
+ latency for a trivial fetch.
+
+ * "git fetch" can be told to recursively fetch submodules on-demand.
+
+ * "git grep -f <filename>" learned to treat "-" as "read from the
+ standard input stream".
+
+ * "git grep --no-index" did not honor pathspecs correctly, returning
+ paths outside the specified area.
+
+ * "git init" learned the --separate-git-dir option to allow the git
+ directory for a new repository created elsewhere and linked via the
+ gitdir mechanism. This is primarily to help submodule support later
+ to switch between a branch of superproject that has the submodule
+ and another that does not.
+
+ * "git log" type commands now understand globbing pathspecs. You
+ can say "git log -- '*.txt'" for example.
+
+ * "git log" family of commands learned --cherry and --cherry-mark
+ options that can be used to view two diverged branches while omitting
+ or highlighting equivalent changes that appear on both sides of a
+ symmetric difference (e.g. "log --cherry A...B").
+
+ * A lazy "git merge" that didn't say what to merge used to be an error.
+ When run on a branch that has an upstream defined, however, the command
+ now merges from the configured upstream.
+
+ * "git mergetool" learned how to drive "beyond compare 3" as well.
+
+ * "git rerere forget" without pathspec used to forget all the saved
+ conflicts that relate to the current merge; it now requires you to
+ give it pathspecs.
+
+ * "git rev-list --objects $revs -- $pathspec" now limits the objects listed
+ in its output properly with the pathspec, in preparation for narrow
+ clones.
+
+ * "git push" with no parameters gives better advice messages when
+ "tracking" is used as the push.default semantics or there is no remote
+ configured yet.
+
+ * A possible value to the "push.default" configuration variable,
+ 'tracking', gained a synonym that more naturally describes what it
+ does, 'upstream'.
+
+ * "git rerere" learned a new subcommand "remaining" that is similar to
+ "status" and lists the paths that had conflicts which are known to
+ rerere, but excludes the paths that have already been marked as
+ resolved in the index from its output. "git mergetool" has been
+ updated to use this facility.
+
+Also contains various documentation updates.
+
+
+Fixes since v1.7.4
+------------------
+
+All of the fixes in the v1.7.4.X maintenance series are included in this
+release, unless otherwise noted.
+
+ * "git fetch" from a client that is mostly following the remote
+ needlessly told all of its refs to the server for both sides to
+ compute the set of objects that need to be transferred efficiently,
+ instead of stopping when the server heard enough. In a project with
+ many tags, this turns out to be extremely wasteful, especially over
+ the smart HTTP transport (sp/maint-{upload,fetch}-pack-stop-early~1).
+
+ * "git fetch" run from a repository that uses the same repository as
+ its alternate object store as the repository it is fetching from
+ did not tell the server that it already has access to objects
+ reachable from the refs in their common alternate object store,
+ causing it to fetch unnecessary objects (jc/maint-fetch-alt).
+
+ * "git remote add --mirror" created a configuration that is suitable for
+ doing both a mirror fetch and a mirror push at the same time, which
+ made little sense. We now warn and require the command line to specify
+ either --mirror=fetch or --mirror=push.
diff --git a/Documentation/RelNotes/1.7.6.txt b/Documentation/RelNotes/1.7.6.txt
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+Git v1.7.6 Release Notes (draft)
+========================
+
+Updates since v1.7.5
+--------------------
+
+ * Various git-svn updates.
+
+ * Clean-up of the C part of i18n (but not l10n---please wait)
+ continues.
+
+ * When an object "$tree:$path" does not exist, if $path does exist in the
+ subtree of $tree that corresponds to the subdirectory the user is in,
+ git now suggests using "$tree:./$path" in addition to the advice to use
+ the full path from the root of the working tree.
+
+ * "git blame" learned "--abbrev[=<n>]" option to control the minimum
+ number of hexdigits shown for commit object names.
+
+ * "git clean" used to fail on an empty directory that is not readable,
+ even though rmdir(2) could remove such a directory. Now we attempt it
+ as the last resort.
+
+ * "git diff -C -C" used to disable the rename detection entirely when
+ there are too many copy candidate paths in the tree; now it falls
+ back to "-C" when doing so would keep the copy candidate paths
+ under the rename detection limit.
+
+ * "git format-patch" learned "--quiet" option to suppress the output of
+ the names of generated files.
+
+ * "git log" and friends learned a new "--notes" option to replace the
+ "--show-notes" option. Unlike "--show-notes", "--notes=<ref>" does
+ not imply showing the default notes.
+
+ * "git merge" learned "-" as a short-hand for "the previous branch", just
+ like the way "git checkout -" works.
+
+ * "git pack-object" now takes core.bigfilethreashold into account, just
+ like fast-imoprt does.
+
+ * "git reflog" allows options like "--format=.." to be given.
+
+ * "git stash apply" can now apply to a working tree with changes as long
+ as there is no overlapping change as the stash being applied.
+
+ * "git submodule update" learned "--force" option to get rid of local
+ changes in submodules and replace them with the up-to-date version.
+
+ * "git stash apply @{99999}" now is diagnosed as an error, unless you
+ really have that many stash entries.
+
+Also contains various documentation updates.
+
+
+Fixes since v1.7.5
+------------------
+
+Unless otherwise noted, all the fixes in 1.7.5.X maintenance track are
+included in this release.
+
+ * "git config" used to choke with an insanely long line.
+ (merge ef/maint-strbuf-init later)
+
+ * The "--dirstat" option of "diff" family of commands used to totally
+ ignore a change that only rearranged lines within a file. Such a
+ change now counts as at least a minimum but non zero change.
+
+ * The "--dirstat" option of "diff" family of commands used to use the
+ pathname in the original, instead of the pathname in the result,
+ when renames are involved.
+ (merge jh/dirstat for the above two later)
+
+ * "diff -M --cached" used to use unmerged path as a possible rename
+ source candidate, which made no sense.
+ (merge mz/maint-rename-unmerged later)
+
+ * "git format-patch" when run with "--quiet" option used to produce a
+ nonsense result that consists of alternating empty output.
+ (merge early part of cn/format-patch-quiet later)
+
+ * "git stash -p --no-keep-index" and "git stash --no-keep-index -p" now
+ mean the same thing.
+ (merge dm/stash-k-i-p later)
+
+ * "git upload-pack" (hence "git push" over git native protocol) had a
+ subtle race condition that could lead to a deadlock.
+ (merge jk/maint-upload-pack-shallow later)
+
+---
+exec >/var/tmp/1
+echo O=$(git describe master)
+O=v1.7.5-184-g23f536c
+git shortlog --no-merges ^maint ^$O master