4 files changed, 82 insertions, 6 deletions
diff --git a/Documentation/RelNotes/1.7.11.7.txt b/Documentation/RelNotes/1.7.11.7.txt
index e7e79d999b..e743a2a8e4 100644
--- a/Documentation/RelNotes/1.7.11.7.txt
+++ b/Documentation/RelNotes/1.7.11.7.txt
@@ -25,7 +25,7 @@ Fixes since v1.7.11.6
    references" nor "Reload" did not update what is shown as the
    contents of it, when the user overwrote the tag with "git tag -f".
 
- * "git for-each-ref" did not currectly support more than one --sort
+ * "git for-each-ref" did not correctly support more than one --sort
    option.
 
  * "git log .." errored out saying it is both rev range and a path
diff --git a/Documentation/RelNotes/2.17.0.txt b/Documentation/RelNotes/2.17.0.txt
index d6db0e19cf..c2cf891f71 100644
--- a/Documentation/RelNotes/2.17.0.txt
+++ b/Documentation/RelNotes/2.17.0.txt
@@ -342,7 +342,7 @@ Fixes since v2.16
    validate the data and connected-ness of objects in the received
    pack; the code to perform this check has been taught about the
    narrow clone's convention that missing objects that are reachable
-   from objects in a pack that came from a promissor remote is OK.
+   from objects in a pack that came from a promisor remote is OK.
 
  * There was an unused file-scope static variable left in http.c when
    building for versions of libCURL that is older than 7.19.4, which
diff --git a/Documentation/RelNotes/2.18.0.txt b/Documentation/RelNotes/2.18.0.txt
index fd5aecf8e9..3ea280cf68 100644
--- a/Documentation/RelNotes/2.18.0.txt
+++ b/Documentation/RelNotes/2.18.0.txt
@@ -6,7 +6,7 @@ Updates since v2.17
 
 UI, Workflows & Features
 
- * Rename detection logic in "diff" family that is used in "merge" has
+ * Rename detection logic that is used in "merge" and "cherry-pick" has
    learned to guess when all of x/a, x/b and x/c have moved to z/a,
    z/b and z/c, it is likely that x/d added in the meantime would also
    want to move to z/d by taking the hint that the entire directory
@@ -50,7 +50,7 @@ UI, Workflows & Features
    have been replaced with a stub that errors out and tells the user
    there are replacements.
 
- * The new "checkout-encoding" attribute can ask Git to convert the
+ * The new "working-tree-encoding" attribute can ask Git to convert the
    contents to the specified encoding when checking out to the working
    tree (and the other way around when checking in).
 
@@ -104,7 +104,7 @@ UI, Workflows & Features
  * The command line completion mechanism (in contrib/) learned to load
    custom completion file for "git $command" where $command is a
    custom "git-$command" that the end user has on the $PATH when using
-   newer version of bash.
+   newer version of bash-completion.
 
  * "git send-email" can sometimes offer confirmation dialog "Send this
    email?" with choices 'Yes', 'No', 'Quit', and 'All'.  A new action
@@ -144,6 +144,9 @@ UI, Workflows & Features
    from the other side; instead, just let cURL library to advertise
    and negotiate the best one.
 
+ * "git p4" learned to "unshelve" shelved commit from P4.
+   (merge 123f631761 ld/p4-unshelve later to maint).
+
 
 Performance, Internal Implementation, Development Support etc.
 
@@ -290,6 +293,15 @@ Performance, Internal Implementation, Development Support etc.
    to test the moral equivalent of the original without hardcoding the
    actual object names.
 
+ * The list of commands with their various attributes were spread
+   across a few places in the build procedure, but it now is getting a
+   bit more consolidated to allow more automation.
+
+ * Quite a many tests assumed that newly created refs are made as
+   loose refs using the files backend, which have been updated to use
+   proper plumbing like rev-parse and update-ref, to avoid breakage
+   once we start using different ref backends.
+
 
 Also contains various documentation updates and code clean-ups.
 
@@ -312,7 +324,7 @@ Fixes since v2.17
    after giving an error message.
    (merge 3bb0923f06 ps/contains-id-error-message later to maint).
 
- * "diff-highlight" filter (in contrib/) learned to undertand "git log
+ * "diff-highlight" filter (in contrib/) learned to understand "git log
    --graph" output better.
    (merge 4551fbba14 jk/diff-highlight-graph-fix later to maint).
 
@@ -488,6 +500,45 @@ Fixes since v2.17
    which have been corrected.
    (merge 17154b1576 ma/regex-no-regfree-after-comp-fail later to maint).
 
+ * The import-tars script (in contrib/) has been taught to handle
+   tarballs with overly long paths that use PAX extended headers.
+   (merge 12ecea46e3 pa/import-tars-long-names later to maint).
+
+ * "git rev-parse Y..." etc. misbehaved when given endpoints were
+   not committishes.
+   (merge 0ed556d38f en/rev-parse-invalid-range later to maint).
+
+ * "git pull --recurse-submodules --rebase", when the submodule
+   repository's history did not have anything common between ours and
+   the upstream's, failed to execute.  We need to fetch from them to
+   continue even in such a case.
+   (merge 4d36f88be7 jt/submodule-pull-recurse-rebase later to maint).
+
+ * "git remote update" can take both a single remote nickname and a
+   nickname for remote groups, but only one of them was documented.
+   (merge a97447a42a nd/remote-update-doc later to maint).
+
+ * "index-pack --strict" has been taught to make sure that it runs the
+   final object integrity checks after making the freshly indexed
+   packfile available to itself.
+   (merge 3737746120 jk/index-pack-maint later to maint).
+
+ * Make zlib inflate codepath more robust against versions of zlib
+   that clobber unused portion of outbuf.
+   (merge b611396e97 jl/zlib-restore-nul-termination later to maint).
+
+ * Fix old merge glitch in Documentation during v2.13-rc0 era.
+   (merge 28cb06020b mw/doc-merge-enumfix later to maint).
+
+ * The code to read compressed bitmap was not careful to avoid reading
+   past the end of the file, which has been corrected.
+   (merge 1140bf01ec jk/ewah-bounds-check later to maint).
+
+ * "make NO_ICONV=NoThanks" did not override NEEDS_LIBICONV
+   (i.e. linkage of -lintl, -liconv, etc. that are platform-specific
+   tweaks), which has been corrected.
+   (merge fdb1fbbc7d es/make-no-iconv later to maint).
+
  * Other minor doc, test and build updates and code cleanups.
    (merge 248f66ed8e nd/trace-with-env later to maint).
    (merge 14ced5562c ys/bisect-object-id-missing-conversion-fix later to maint).
@@ -519,3 +570,14 @@ Fixes since v2.17
    (merge 58bd77b66a nd/pack-unreachable-objects-doc later to maint).
    (merge 4ed79d5203 sg/t6500-no-redirect-of-stdin later to maint).
    (merge 17b8a2d6cd jk/config-blob-sans-repo later to maint).
+   (merge 590551ca2c rd/tag-doc-lightweight later to maint).
+   (merge 44f560fc16 rd/init-typo later to maint).
+   (merge f156a0934a rd/p4-doc-markup-env later to maint).
+   (merge 2a00502b14 tg/doc-sec-list later to maint).
+   (merge 47cc91310a jk/submodule-fsck-loose-fixup later to maint).
+   (merge efde7b725c rd/comment-typofix-in-sha1-file later to maint).
+   (merge 7eedad15df rd/diff-options-typofix later to maint).
+   (merge 58ebd936cc km/doc-workflows-typofix later to maint).
+   (merge 30aa96cdf8 rd/doc-remote-tracking-with-hyphen later to maint).
+   (merge cf317877e3 ks/branch-set-upstream later to maint).
+   (merge 8de19d6be8 sg/t7406-chain-fix later to maint).
diff --git a/Documentation/RelNotes/2.19.0.txt b/Documentation/RelNotes/2.19.0.txt
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000..284e07f6a3
--- /dev/null
+++ b/Documentation/RelNotes/2.19.0.txt
@@ -0,0 +1,14 @@
+Git 2.19 Release Notes
+======================
+
+Updates since v2.18
+-------------------
+
+UI, Workflows & Features
+
+
+Performance, Internal Implementation, Development Support etc.
+
+
+Fixes since v2.18
+-----------------