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diff --git a/Documentation/RelNotes/2.10.1.txt b/Documentation/RelNotes/2.10.1.txt
index 75c07e199e..70462f7f7e 100644
--- a/Documentation/RelNotes/2.10.1.txt
+++ b/Documentation/RelNotes/2.10.1.txt
@@ -30,4 +30,102 @@ Fixes since v2.10
* Update a few tests that used to use GIT_CURL_VERBOSE to use the
newer GIT_TRACE_CURL.
+ * Update Japanese translation for "git-gui".
+
+ * "git fetch http::/site/path" did not die correctly and segfaulted
+ instead.
+
+ * "git commit-tree" stopped reading commit.gpgsign configuration
+ variable that was meant for Porcelain "git commit" in Git 2.9; we
+ forgot to update "git gui" to look at the configuration to match
+ this change.
+
+ * "git log --cherry-pick" used to include merge commits as candidates
+ to be matched up with other commits, resulting a lot of wasted time.
+ The patch-id generation logic has been updated to ignore merges to
+ avoid the wastage.
+
+ * The http transport (with curl-multi option, which is the default
+ these days) failed to remove curl-easy handle from a curlm session,
+ which led to unnecessary API failures.
+
+ * "git diff -W" output needs to extend the context backward to
+ include the header line of the current function and also forward to
+ include the body of the entire current function up to the header
+ line of the next one. This process may have to merge to adjacent
+ hunks, but the code forgot to do so in some cases.
+
+ * Performance tests done via "t/perf" did not use the same set of
+ build configuration if the user relied on autoconf generated
+ configuration.
+
+ * "git format-patch --base=..." feature that was recently added
+ showed the base commit information after "-- " e-mail signature
+ line, which turned out to be inconvenient. The base information
+ has been moved above the signature line.
+
+ * Even when "git pull --rebase=preserve" (and the underlying "git
+ rebase --preserve") can complete without creating any new commit
+ (i.e. fast-forwards), it still insisted on having a usable ident
+ information (read: user.email is set correctly), which was less
+ than nice. As the underlying commands used inside "git rebase"
+ would fail with a more meaningful error message and advice text
+ when the bogus ident matters, this extra check was removed.
+
+ * "git gc --aggressive" used to limit the delta-chain length to 250,
+ which is way too deep for gaining additional space savings and is
+ detrimental for runtime performance. The limit has been reduced to
+ 50.
+
+ * Documentation for individual configuration variables to control use
+ of color (like `color.grep`) said that their default value is
+ 'false', instead of saying their default is taken from `color.ui`.
+ When we updated the default value for color.ui from 'false' to
+ 'auto' quite a while ago, all of them broke. This has been
+ corrected.
+
+ * A shell script example in check-ref-format documentation has been
+ fixed.
+
+ * "git checkout <word>" does not follow the usual disambiguation
+ rules when the <word> can be both a rev and a path, to allow
+ checking out a branch 'foo' in a project that happens to have a
+ file 'foo' in the working tree without having to disambiguate.
+ This was poorly documented and the check was incorrect when the
+ command was run from a subdirectory.
+
+ * Some codepaths in "git diff" used regexec(3) on a buffer that was
+ mmap(2)ed, which may not have a terminating NUL, leading to a read
+ beyond the end of the mapped region. This was fixed by introducing
+ a regexec_buf() helper that takes a <ptr,len> pair with REG_STARTEND
+ extension.
+
+ * The procedure to build Git on Mac OS X for Travis CI hardcoded the
+ internal directory structure we assumed HomeBrew uses, which was a
+ no-no. The procedure has been updated to ask HomeBrew things we
+ need to know to fix this.
+
+ * When "git rebase -i" is given a broken instruction, it told the
+ user to fix it with "--edit-todo", but didn't say what the step
+ after that was (i.e. "--continue").
+
+ * "git add --chmod=+x" added recently lacked documentation, which has
+ been corrected.
+
+ * "git add --chmod=+x <pathspec>" added recently only toggled the
+ executable bit for paths that are either new or modified. This has
+ been corrected to flip the executable bit for all paths that match
+ the given pathspec.
+
+ * "git pack-objects --include-tag" was taught that when we know that
+ we are sending an object C, we want a tag B that directly points at
+ C but also a tag A that points at the tag B. We used to miss the
+ intermediate tag B in some cases.
+
+ * Documentation around tools to import from CVS was fairly outdated.
+
+ * In the codepath that comes up with the hostname to be used in an
+ e-mail when the user didn't tell us, we looked at ai_canonname
+ field in struct addrinfo without making sure it is not NULL first.
+
Also contains minor documentation updates and code clean-ups.
diff --git a/Documentation/RelNotes/2.11.0.txt b/Documentation/RelNotes/2.11.0.txt
index 8b29f7712d..0f82a089cd 100644
--- a/Documentation/RelNotes/2.11.0.txt
+++ b/Documentation/RelNotes/2.11.0.txt
@@ -38,6 +38,35 @@ UI, Workflows & Features
lacked an equivalent mechanism to run the "Git-to-outside-world"
conversion. The command learned the "--filters" option to do so.
+ * Output from "git diff" can be made easier to read by selecting
+ which lines are common and which lines are added/deleted
+ intelligently when the lines before and after the changed section
+ are the same. A command line option is added to help with the
+ experiment to find a good heuristics.
+
+ * In some projects, it is common to use "[RFC PATCH]" as the subject
+ prefix for a patch meant for discussion rather than application. A
+ new option "--rfc" was a short-hand for "--subject-prefix=RFC PATCH"
+ to help the participants of such projects.
+
+ * "git add --chmod=+x <pathspec>" added recently only toggled the
+ executable bit for paths that are either new or modified. This has
+ been corrected to flip the executable bit for all paths that match
+ the given pathspec.
+
+ * When "git format-patch --stdout" output is placed as an in-body
+ header and it uses the RFC2822 header folding, "git am" failed to
+ put the header line back into a single logical line. The
+ underlying "git mailinfo" was taught to handle this properly.
+
+ * "gitweb" can spawn "highlight" to show blob contents with
+ (programming) language-specific syntax highlighting, but only
+ when the language is known. "highlight" can however be told
+ to make the guess itself by giving it "--force" option, which
+ has been enabled.
+
+ * "git gui" l10n to Portuguese.
+
Performance, Internal Implementation, Development Support etc.
@@ -82,6 +111,9 @@ Performance, Internal Implementation, Development Support etc.
existing pack bitmap; now they are and as the result they have
become faster.
+ * The codepath in "git fsck" to detect malformed tree objects has
+ been updated not to die but keep going after detecting them.
+
Also contains various documentation updates and code clean-ups.
@@ -196,9 +228,111 @@ notes for details).
50.
(merge 07e7dbf jk/reduce-gc-aggressive-depth later to maint).
+ * Documentation for individual configuration variables to control use
+ of color (like `color.grep`) said that their default value is
+ 'false', instead of saying their default is taken from `color.ui`.
+ When we updated the default value for color.ui from 'false' to
+ 'auto' quite a while ago, all of them broke. This has been
+ corrected.
+ (merge 14d16e2 mm/config-color-ui-default-to-auto later to maint).
+
+ * The pretty-format specifier "%C(auto)" used by the "log" family of
+ commands to enable coloring of the output is taught to also issue a
+ color-reset sequence to the output.
+ (merge c99ad27 rs/c-auto-resets-attributes later to maint).
+
+ * A shell script example in check-ref-format documentation has been
+ fixed.
+ (merge 92dece7 ep/doc-check-ref-format-example later to maint).
+
+ * "git checkout <word>" does not follow the usual disambiguation
+ rules when the <word> can be both a rev and a path, to allow
+ checking out a branch 'foo' in a project that happens to have a
+ file 'foo' in the working tree without having to disambiguate.
+ This was poorly documented and the check was incorrect when the
+ command was run from a subdirectory.
+ (merge b829b94 nd/checkout-disambiguation later to maint).
+
+ * Some codepaths in "git diff" used regexec(3) on a buffer that was
+ mmap(2)ed, which may not have a terminating NUL, leading to a read
+ beyond the end of the mapped region. This was fixed by introducing
+ a regexec_buf() helper that takes a <ptr,len> pair with REG_STARTEND
+ extension.
+ (merge b7d36ff js/regexec-buf later to maint).
+
+ * The procedure to build Git on Mac OS X for Travis CI hardcoded the
+ internal directory structure we assumed HomeBrew uses, which was a
+ no-no. The procedure has been updated to ask HomeBrew things we
+ need to know to fix this.
+ (merge f86f49b ls/travis-homebrew-path-fix later to maint).
+
+ * When "git rebase -i" is given a broken instruction, it told the
+ user to fix it with "--edit-todo", but didn't say what the step
+ after that was (i.e. "--continue").
+ (merge 37875b4 rt/rebase-i-broken-insn-advise later to maint).
+
+ * Documentation around tools to import from CVS was fairly outdated.
+ (merge 106b672 jk/doc-cvs-update later to maint).
+
+ * "git clone --recurse-submodules" lost the progress eye-candy in
+ recent update, which has been corrected.
+
+ * A low-level function verify_packfile() was meant to show errors
+ that were detected without dying itself, but under some conditions
+ it didn't and died instead, which has been fixed.
+ (merge a9445d859e jk/verify-packfile-gently later to maint).
+
+ * When "git fetch" tries to find where the history of the repository
+ it runs in has diverged from what the other side has, it has a
+ mechanism to avoid digging too deep into irrelevant side branches.
+ This however did not work well over the "smart-http" transport due
+ to a design bug, which has been fixed.
+ (merge 06b3d386e0 jt/fetch-pack-in-vain-count-with-stateless later to maint).
+
+ * In the codepath that comes up with the hostname to be used in an
+ e-mail when the user didn't tell us, we looked at ai_canonname
+ field in struct addrinfo without making sure it is not NULL first.
+ (merge c375a7efa3 jk/ident-ai-canonname-could-be-null later to maint).
+
+ * "git worktree", even though it used the default_abbrev setting that
+ ought to be affected by core.abbrev configuration variable, ignored
+ the variable setting. The command has been taught to read the
+ default set of configuration variables to correct this.
+ (merge d49028e6e7 jc/worktree-config later to maint).
+
+ * "git init" tried to record core.worktree in the repository's
+ 'config' file when GIT_WORK_TREE environment variable was set and
+ it was different from where GIT_DIR appears as ".git" at its top,
+ but the logic was faulty when .git is a "gitdir:" file that points
+ at the real place, causing trouble in working trees that are
+ managed by "git worktree". This has been corrected.
+
+ * Codepaths that read from an on-disk loose object were too loose in
+ validating what they are reading is a proper object file and
+ sometimes read past the data they read from the disk, which has
+ been corrected. H/t to Gustavo Grieco for reporting.
+ (merge d21f842690 jc/verify-loose-object-header later to maint).
+
+ * The original command line syntax for "git merge", which was "git
+ merge <msg> HEAD <parent>...", has been deprecated for quite some
+ time, and "git gui" was the last in-tree user of the syntax. This
+ is finally fixed, so that we can move forward with the deprecation.
+ (merge ff65e796f0 rs/git-gui-use-modern-git-merge-syntax later to maint).
+
+ * An author name, that spelled a backslash-quoted double quote in the
+ human readable part "My \"double quoted\" name", was not unquoted
+ correctly while applying a patch from a piece of e-mail.
+ (merge f357e5de31 kd/mailinfo-quoted-string later to maint).
+
+ * Doc update to clarify what "log -3 --reverse" does.
+ (merge 04be69478f pb/rev-list-reverse-with-count later to maint).
+
* Other minor doc, test and build updates and code cleanups.
(merge e78d57e bw/pathspec-remove-unused-extern-decl later to maint).
(merge ce25e4c rs/checkout-some-states-are-const later to maint).
(merge a8342a4 rs/strbuf-remove-fix later to maint).
(merge b56aa5b rs/unpack-trees-reduce-file-scope-global later to maint).
(merge 5efc60c mr/vcs-svn-printf-ulong later to maint).
+ (merge a22ae75 rs/cocci later to maint).
+ (merge 45ccef87b3 rs/copy-array later to maint).
+ (merge 8201688ecd dt/mailinfo later to maint).