8 files changed, 284 insertions, 49 deletions
diff --git a/Documentation/RelNotes/1.7.10.txt b/Documentation/RelNotes/1.7.10.txt
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000..cc222819a0
--- /dev/null
+++ b/Documentation/RelNotes/1.7.10.txt
@@ -0,0 +1,69 @@
+Git v1.7.10 Release Notes
+=========================
+
+Updates since v1.7.9
+--------------------
+
+UI, Workflows & Features
+
+ * Improved handling of views, labels and branches in git-p4 (in contrib).
+
+ * "git am" learned to pass "-b" option to underlying "git mailinfo", so
+   that bracketed string other than "PATCH" at the beginning can be kept.
+
+ * "git clone" learned "--single-branch" option to limit cloning to a
+   single branch (surprise!).
+
+ * When showing a patch while ignoring whitespace changes, the context
+   lines are taken from the postimage, in order to make it easier to
+   view the output.
+
+Performance
+
+ * During "git upload-pack" in respose to "git fetch", unnecessary calls
+   to parse_object() have been eliminated, to help performance in
+   repositories with excessive number of refs.
+
+Internal Implementation
+
+ * Recursive call chains in "git index-pack" to deal with long delta
+   chains have been flattened, to reduce the stack footprint.
+
+ * Use of add_extra_ref() API is slowly getting removed, to make it
+   possible to cleanly restructure the overall refs API.
+
+ * The test suite supports the new "test_pause" helper function.
+
+Also contains minor documentation updates and code clean-ups.
+
+
+Fixes since v1.7.9
+------------------
+
+Unless otherwise noted, all the fixes since v1.7.9 in the maintenance
+releases are contained in this release (see release notes to them for
+details).
+
+ * When "git push" fails to update any refs, the client side did not
+   report an error correctly to the end user.
+   (merge 5238cbf sp/smart-http-failure-to-push later to maint).
+
+ * "git push -q" was not sufficiently quiet.
+   (merge d336572 cb/push-quiet later to maint).
+
+ * "git log --first-parent $pathspec" did not stay on the first parent
+   chain and veered into side branch from which the whole change to the
+   specified paths came.
+   (merge 36ed191 jc/maint-log-first-parent-pathspec later to maint).
+
+ * Subprocesses spawned from various git programs were often left running
+   to completion even when the top-level process was killed.
+   (merge 10c6cdd cb/maint-kill-subprocess-upon-signal later to maint).
+
+---
+exec >/var/tmp/1
+O=v1.7.9
+echo O=$(git describe)
+git log --first-parent --oneline ^maint $O..
+echo
+git shortlog --no-merges ^maint $O..
diff --git a/Documentation/RelNotes/1.7.6.6.txt b/Documentation/RelNotes/1.7.6.6.txt
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000..5343e00400
--- /dev/null
+++ b/Documentation/RelNotes/1.7.6.6.txt
@@ -0,0 +1,16 @@
+Git v1.7.6.6 Release Notes
+==========================
+
+Fixes since v1.7.6.5
+--------------------
+
+ * The code to look up attributes for paths reused entries from a wrong
+   directory when two paths in question are in adjacent directories and
+   the name of the one directory is a prefix of the other.
+
+ * When producing a "thin pack" (primarily used in bundles and smart
+   HTTP transfers) out of a fully packed repository, we unnecessarily
+   avoided sending recent objects as a delta against objects we know
+   the other side has.
+
+Also contains minor fixes and documentation updates.
diff --git a/Documentation/RelNotes/1.7.7.6.txt b/Documentation/RelNotes/1.7.7.6.txt
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000..8df606d452
--- /dev/null
+++ b/Documentation/RelNotes/1.7.7.6.txt
@@ -0,0 +1,20 @@
+Git v1.7.7.6 Release Notes
+==========================
+
+Fixes since v1.7.7.5
+--------------------
+
+ * The code to look up attributes for paths reused entries from a wrong
+   directory when two paths in question are in adjacent directories and
+   the name of the one directory is a prefix of the other.
+
+ * A wildcard that matches deeper hierarchy given to the "diff-index" command,
+   e.g. "git diff-index HEAD -- '*.txt'", incorrectly reported additions of
+   matching files even when there is no change.
+
+ * When producing a "thin pack" (primarily used in bundles and smart
+   HTTP transfers) out of a fully packed repository, we unnecessarily
+   avoided sending recent objects as a delta against objects we know
+   the other side has.
+
+Also contains minor fixes and documentation updates.
diff --git a/Documentation/RelNotes/1.7.8.1.txt b/Documentation/RelNotes/1.7.8.1.txt
index 0e8bd9f5ee..33dc948b94 100644
--- a/Documentation/RelNotes/1.7.8.1.txt
+++ b/Documentation/RelNotes/1.7.8.1.txt
@@ -1,17 +1,38 @@
 Git v1.7.8.1 Release Notes
 ==========================
 
-Fixes since v1.7.8.1
---------------------
+Fixes since v1.7.8
+------------------
 
  * In some codepaths (notably, checkout and merge), the ignore patterns
    recorded in $GIT_DIR/info/exclude were not honored. They now are.
 
- * After fetching from a remote that has very long refname, the reporting
-   output could have corrupted by overrunning a static buffer.
+ * "git apply --check" did not error out when given an empty input
+   without any patch.
+
+ * "git archive" mistakenly allowed remote clients to ask for commits
+   that are not at the tip of any ref.
 
  * "git checkout" and "git merge" treated in-tree .gitignore and exclude
    file in $GIT_DIR/info/ directory inconsistently when deciding which
    untracked files are ignored and expendable.
 
+ * LF-to-CRLF streaming filter used when checking out a large-ish blob
+   fell into an infinite loop with a rare input.
+
+ * The function header pattern for files with "diff=cpp" attribute did
+   not consider "type *funcname(type param1,..." as the beginning of a
+   function.
+
+ * The error message from "git diff" and "git status" when they fail
+   to inspect changes in submodules did not report which submodule they
+   had trouble with.
+
+ * After fetching from a remote that has very long refname, the reporting
+   output could have corrupted by overrunning a static buffer.
+
+ * "git pack-objects" avoids creating cyclic dependencies among deltas
+   when seeing a broken packfile that records the same object in both
+   the deflated form and as a delta.
+
 Also contains minor fixes and documentation updates.
diff --git a/Documentation/RelNotes/1.7.8.2.txt b/Documentation/RelNotes/1.7.8.2.txt
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000..e74f4ef1ef
--- /dev/null
+++ b/Documentation/RelNotes/1.7.8.2.txt
@@ -0,0 +1,71 @@
+Git v1.7.8.2 Release Notes
+==========================
+
+Fixes since v1.7.8.1
+--------------------
+
+ * Porcelain commands like "git reset" did not distinguish deletions
+   and type-changes from ordinary modification, and reported them with
+   the same 'M' moniker. They now use 'D' (for deletion) and 'T' (for
+   type-change) to match "git status -s" and "git diff --name-status".
+
+ * The configuration file parser used for sizes (e.g. bigFileThreshold)
+   did not correctly interpret 'g' suffix.
+
+ * The replacement implemention for snprintf used on platforms with
+   native snprintf that is broken did not use va_copy correctly.
+
+ * LF-to-CRLF streaming filter replaced all LF with CRLF, which might
+   be techinically correct but not friendly to people who are trying
+   to recover from earlier mistakes of using CRLF in the repository
+   data in the first place. It now refrains from doing so for LF that
+   follows a CR.
+
+ * git native connection going over TCP (not over SSH) did not set
+   SO_KEEPALIVE option which failed to receive link layer errors.
+
+ * "git branch -m <current branch> HEAD" is an obvious no-op but was not
+   allowed.
+
+ * "git checkout -m" did not recreate the conflicted state in a "both
+   sides added, without any common ancestor version" conflict
+   situation.
+
+ * "git cherry-pick $commit" (not a range) created an unnecessary
+   sequencer state and interfered with valid workflow to use the
+   command during a session to cherry-pick multiple commits.
+
+ * You could make "git commit" segfault by giving the "--no-message"
+   option.
+
+ * "fast-import" did not correctly update an existing notes tree,
+   possibly corrupting the fan-out.
+
+ * "git fetch-pack" accepted unqualified refs that do not begin with
+   refs/ by mistake and compensated it by matching the refspec with
+   tail-match, which was doubly wrong. This broke fetching from a
+   repository with a funny named ref "refs/foo/refs/heads/master" and a
+   'master' branch with "git fetch-pack refs/heads/master", as the
+   command incorrectly considered the former a "match".
+
+ * "git log --follow" did not honor the rename threshold score given
+   with the -M option (e.g. "-M50%").
+
+ * "git mv" gave suboptimal error/warning messages when it overwrites
+   target files. It also did not pay attention to "-v" option.
+
+ * Authenticated "git push" over dumb HTTP were broken with a recent
+   change and failed without asking for password when username is
+   given.
+
+ * "git push" to an empty repository over HTTP were broken with a
+   recent change to the ref handling.
+
+ * "git push -v" forgot how to be verbose by mistake. It now properly
+   becomes verbose when asked to.
+
+ * When a "reword" action in "git rebase -i" failed to run "commit --amend",
+   we did not give the control back to the user to resolve the situation, and
+   instead kept the original commit log message.
+
+Also contains minor fixes and documentation updates.
diff --git a/Documentation/RelNotes/1.7.8.3.txt b/Documentation/RelNotes/1.7.8.3.txt
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000..a92714c14b
--- /dev/null
+++ b/Documentation/RelNotes/1.7.8.3.txt
@@ -0,0 +1,16 @@
+Git v1.7.8.3 Release Notes
+==========================
+
+Fixes since v1.7.8.2
+--------------------
+
+ * Attempt to fetch from an empty file pretending it to be a bundle did
+   not error out correctly.
+
+ * gitweb did not correctly fall back to configured $fallback_encoding
+   that is not 'latin1'.
+
+ * "git clone --depth $n" did not catch a non-number given as $n as an
+   error.
+
+Also contains minor fixes and documentation updates.
diff --git a/Documentation/RelNotes/1.7.8.4.txt b/Documentation/RelNotes/1.7.8.4.txt
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000..9bebdbf13d
--- /dev/null
+++ b/Documentation/RelNotes/1.7.8.4.txt
@@ -0,0 +1,23 @@
+Git v1.7.8.4 Release Notes
+==========================
+
+Fixes since v1.7.8.3
+--------------------
+
+ * The code to look up attributes for paths reused entries from a wrong
+   directory when two paths in question are in adjacent directories and
+   the name of the one directory is a prefix of the other.
+
+ * A wildcard that matches deeper hierarchy given to the "diff-index" command,
+   e.g. "git diff-index HEAD -- '*.txt'", incorrectly reported additions of
+   matching files even when there is no change.
+
+ * When producing a "thin pack" (primarily used in bundles and smart
+   HTTP transfers) out of a fully packed repository, we unnecessarily
+   avoided sending recent objects as a delta against objects we know
+   the other side has.
+
+ * "git send-email" did not properly treat sendemail.multiedit as a
+   boolean (e.g. setting it to "false" did not turn it off).
+
+Also contains minor fixes and documentation updates.
diff --git a/Documentation/RelNotes/1.7.9.txt b/Documentation/RelNotes/1.7.9.txt
index ee72a845fe..95320aad5d 100644
--- a/Documentation/RelNotes/1.7.9.txt
+++ b/Documentation/RelNotes/1.7.9.txt
@@ -1,4 +1,4 @@
-Git v1.7.9 Release Notes (draft)
+Git v1.7.9 Release Notes
 ========================
 
 Updates since v1.7.8
@@ -10,17 +10,32 @@ Updates since v1.7.8
 
  * git-p4 (in contrib/) updates.
 
- * Porcelain commands like "git reset" did not distinguish deletions
-   and type-changes from ordinary modification, and reported them with
-   the same 'M' moniker. They now use 'D' (for deletion) and 'T' (for
-   type-change) to match "git status -s" and "git diff --name-status".
+ * Git uses gettext to translate its most common interface messages
+   into the user's language if translations are available and the
+   locale is appropriately set. Distributors can drop new PO files
+   in po/ to add new translations.
+
+ * The code to handle username/password for HTTP transactions used in
+   "git push" & "git fetch" learned to talk "credential API" to
+   external programs to cache or store them, to allow integration with
+   platform native keychain mechanisms.
+
+ * The input prompts in the terminal use our own getpass() replacement
+   when possible. HTTP transactions used to ask for the username without
+   echoing back what was typed, but with this change you will see it as
+   you type.
+
+ * The internals of "revert/cherry-pick" have been tweaked to prepare
+   building more generic "sequencer" on top of the implementation that
+   drives them.
+
+ * "git rev-parse FETCH_HEAD" after "git fetch" without specifying
+   what to fetch from the command line will now show the commit that
+   would be merged if the command were "git pull".
 
  * "git add" learned to stream large files directly into a packfile
    instead of writing them into individual loose object files.
 
- * "git branch -m <current branch> HEAD" is an obvious no-op and is
-   now allowed.
-
  * "git checkout -B <current branch> <elsewhere>" is a more intuitive
    way to spell "git reset --keep <elsewhere>".
 
@@ -31,6 +46,16 @@ Updates since v1.7.8
    user is amending the tree being recorded, without updating the
    commit log message.
 
+ * "git commit" and "git reset" re-learned the optimization to prime
+   the cache-tree information in the index, which makes it faster to
+   write a tree object out after the index entries are updated.
+
+ * "git commit" detects and rejects an attempt to stuff NUL byte in
+   the commit log message.
+
+ * "git commit" learned "-S" to GPG-sign the commit; this can be shown
+   with the "--show-signature" option to "git log".
+
  * fsck and prune are relatively lengthy operations that still go
    silent while making the end-user wait. They learned to give progress
    output like other slow operations.
@@ -38,11 +63,19 @@ Updates since v1.7.8
  * The set of built-in function-header patterns for various languages
    knows MATLAB.
 
+ * "git log --format='<format>'" learned new %g[nNeE] specifiers to
+   show information from the reflog entries when walking the reflog
+   (i.e. with "-g").
+
  * "git pull" can be used to fetch and merge an annotated/signed tag,
    instead of the tip of a topic branch. The GPG signature from the
    signed tag is recorded in the resulting merge commit for later
    auditing.
 
+ * "git log" learned "--show-signature" option to show the signed tag
+   that was merged that is embedded in the merge commit. It also can
+   show the signature made on the commit with "git commit -S".
+
  * "git branch --edit-description" can be used to add descriptive text
    to explain what a topic branch is about.
 
@@ -74,40 +107,6 @@ Also contains minor documentation updates and code clean-ups.
 Fixes since v1.7.8
 ------------------
 
- * The function header pattern for files with "diff=cpp" attribute did
-   not consider "type *funcname(type param1,..." as the beginning of a
-   function.
-   (merge 37e7793 tr/userdiff-c-returns-pointer later to maint).
-
- * LF-to-CRLF streaming filter used when checking out a large-ish blob
-   fell into an infinite loop with a rare input.
-   (merge 284e3d2 cn/maint-lf-to-crlf-filter later to maint).
-
- * "git archive" mistakenly allowed remote clients to ask for commits
-   that are not at the tip of any ref.
-   (merge 7b51c33 jk/maint-upload-archive later to maint).
-
- * "git apply --check" did not error out when given an empty input
-   without any patch.
-   (merge cc64b31 bc/maint-apply-check-no-patch later to maint).
-
- * The error message from "git diff" and "git status" when they fail
-   to inspect changes in submodules did not report which submodule they
-   had trouble with.
-   (merge 6a5ceda jl/submodule-status-failure-report later to maint).
-
- * "fast-import" did not correctly update an existing notes tree,
-   possibly corrupting the fan-out.
-
- * When a "reword" action in "git rebase -i" failed to run "commit --amend",
-   we did not give the control back to the user to resolve the situation, and
-   instead kept the original commit log message.
-   (merge 0becb3e aw/rebase-i-stop-on-failure-to-amend later to maint).
-
---
-exec >/var/tmp/1
-O=v1.7.8-282-ga2add85
-echo O=$(git describe master)
-git log --first-parent --oneline --reverse ^$O master
-echo
-git shortlog --no-merges ^$O ^maint master
+Unless otherwise noted, all the fixes since v1.7.8 in the maintenance
+releases are contained in this release (see release notes to them for
+details).