8 files changed, 210 insertions, 74 deletions
diff --git a/Documentation/RelNotes/1.7.6.5.txt b/Documentation/RelNotes/1.7.6.5.txt
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000..6713132a9e
--- /dev/null
+++ b/Documentation/RelNotes/1.7.6.5.txt
@@ -0,0 +1,26 @@
+Git v1.7.6.5 Release Notes
+==========================
+
+Fixes since v1.7.6.4
+--------------------
+
+ * The date parser did not accept timezone designators that lack minutes
+   part and also has a colon between "hh:mm".
+
+ * After fetching from a remote that has very long refname, the reporting
+   output could have corrupted by overrunning a static buffer.
+
+ * "git mergetool" did not use its arguments as pathspec, but as a path to
+   the file that may not even have any conflict.
+
+ * "git name-rev --all" tried to name all _objects_, naturally failing to
+   describe many blobs and trees, instead of showing only commits as
+   advertised in its documentation.
+
+ * "git remote rename $a $b" were not careful to match the remote name
+   against $a (i.e. source side of the remote nickname).
+
+ * "gitweb" used to produce a non-working link while showing the contents
+   of a blob, when JavaScript actions are enabled.
+
+Also contains minor fixes and documentation updates.
diff --git a/Documentation/RelNotes/1.7.7.2.txt b/Documentation/RelNotes/1.7.7.2.txt
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000..e6bbef2f01
--- /dev/null
+++ b/Documentation/RelNotes/1.7.7.2.txt
@@ -0,0 +1,44 @@
+Git v1.7.7.2 Release Notes
+==========================
+
+Fixes since v1.7.7.1
+--------------------
+
+ * We used to drop error messages from libcurl on certain kinds of
+   errors.
+
+ * Error report from smart HTTP transport, when the connection was
+   broken in the middle of a transfer, showed a useless message on
+   a corrupt packet.
+
+ * "git fetch --prune" was unsafe when used with refspecs from the
+   command line.
+
+ * The attribute mechanism did not use case insensitive match when
+   core.ignorecase was set.
+
+ * "git bisect" did not notice when it failed to update the working tree
+   to the next commit to be tested.
+
+ * "git config --bool --get-regexp" failed to separate the variable name
+   and its value "true" when the variable is defined without "= true".
+
+ * "git remote rename $a $b" were not careful to match the remote name
+   against $a (i.e. source side of the remote nickname).
+
+ * "git mergetool" did not use its arguments as pathspec, but as a path to
+   the file that may not even have any conflict.
+
+ * "git diff --[num]stat" used to use the number of lines of context
+   different from the default, potentially giving different results from
+   "git diff | diffstat" and confusing the users.
+
+ * "git pull" and "git rebase" did not work well even when GIT_WORK_TREE is
+   set correctly with GIT_DIR if the current directory is outside the working
+   tree.
+
+ * "git send-email" did not honor the configured hostname when restarting
+   the HELO/EHLO exchange after switching TLS on.
+
+ * "gitweb" used to produce a non-working link while showing the contents
+   of a blob, when JavaScript actions are enabled.
diff --git a/Documentation/RelNotes/1.7.7.3.txt b/Documentation/RelNotes/1.7.7.3.txt
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000..09301f0957
--- /dev/null
+++ b/Documentation/RelNotes/1.7.7.3.txt
@@ -0,0 +1,19 @@
+Git v1.7.7.3 Release Notes
+==========================
+
+Fixes since v1.7.7.2
+--------------------
+
+ * Adjust the "quick-install-doc" procedures as preformatted
+   html/manpage are no longer in the source repository.
+
+ * The logic to optimize the locality of the data in a pack introduced in
+   1.7.7 was grossly inefficient.
+
+ * The logic to filter out forked projects in the project list in
+   "gitweb" was broken for some time.
+
+ * "git branch -m/-M" advertised to update RENAME_REF ref in the
+   commit log message that introduced the feature but not anywhere in
+   the documentation, and never did update such a ref anyway. This
+   undocumented misfeature that did not exist has been excised.
diff --git a/Documentation/RelNotes/1.7.7.4.txt b/Documentation/RelNotes/1.7.7.4.txt
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000..e5234485e7
--- /dev/null
+++ b/Documentation/RelNotes/1.7.7.4.txt
@@ -0,0 +1,14 @@
+Git v1.7.7.4 Release Notes
+==========================
+
+Fixes since v1.7.7.3
+--------------------
+
+ * A few header dependencies were missing from the Makefile.
+
+ * Some newer parts of the code used C99 __VA_ARGS__ while we still
+   try to cater to older compilers.
+
+ * "git name-rev --all" tried to name all _objects_, naturally failing to
+   describe many blobs and trees, instead of showing only commits as
+   advertised in its documentation.
diff --git a/Documentation/RelNotes/1.7.7.5.txt b/Documentation/RelNotes/1.7.7.5.txt
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000..7b0931987b
--- /dev/null
+++ b/Documentation/RelNotes/1.7.7.5.txt
@@ -0,0 +1,14 @@
+Git v1.7.7.5 Release Notes
+==========================
+
+Fixes since v1.7.7.4
+--------------------
+
+ * After fetching from a remote that has very long refname, the reporting
+   output could have corrupted by overrunning a static buffer.
+
+ * "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.
+
+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
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000..0e8bd9f5ee
--- /dev/null
+++ b/Documentation/RelNotes/1.7.8.1.txt
@@ -0,0 +1,17 @@
+Git v1.7.8.1 Release Notes
+==========================
+
+Fixes since v1.7.8.1
+--------------------
+
+ * 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 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.
+
+Also contains minor fixes and documentation updates.
diff --git a/Documentation/RelNotes/1.7.8.txt b/Documentation/RelNotes/1.7.8.txt
index 5645fa20bf..b4d90bba0f 100644
--- a/Documentation/RelNotes/1.7.8.txt
+++ b/Documentation/RelNotes/1.7.8.txt
@@ -1,5 +1,5 @@
-Git v1.7.8 Release Notes (draft)
-================================
+Git v1.7.8 Release Notes
+========================
 
 Updates since v1.7.7
 --------------------
@@ -29,7 +29,7 @@ Updates since v1.7.7
    files from the index, not from the working tree.
 
  * Variants of "git cherry-pick" and "git revert" that take multiple
-   commits learned to "--continue".
+   commits learned to "--continue" and "--abort".
 
  * "git daemon" gives more human readble error messages to clients
    using ERR packets when appropriate.
@@ -79,6 +79,9 @@ Updates since v1.7.7
 
  * "git ls-remote" learned to respond to "-h"(elp) requests.
 
+ * "mediawiki" remote helper can interact with (surprise!) MediaWiki
+   with "git fetch" & "git push".
+
  * "git merge" learned the "--edit" option to allow users to edit the
    merge commit log message.
 
@@ -110,9 +113,6 @@ Updates since v1.7.7
    between commits in the superproject that has and does not have the
    submodule in the tree without re-cloning.
 
- * "mediawiki" remote helper can interact with (surprise!) MediaWiki
-   with "git fetch" & "git push".
-
  * "gitweb" leaked unescaped control characters from syntax hiliter
    outputs.
 
@@ -131,91 +131,31 @@ Fixes since v1.7.7
 Unless otherwise noted, all fixes in the 1.7.7.X maintenance track are
 included in this release.
 
- * We used to drop error messages from libcurl on certain kinds of
-   errors.
-   (merge be22d92eac8 jn/maint-http-error-message later to maint).
-
- * Error report from smart HTTP transport, when the connection was
-   broken in the middle of a transfer, showed a useless message on
-   a corrupt packet.
-   (merge 6cdf022 sp/smart-http-failure later to maint).
-
  * HTTP transport did not use pushurl correctly, and also did not tell
    what host it is trying to authenticate with when asking for
    credentials.
    (merge deba493 jk/http-auth later to maint).
 
- * "git branch -m/-M" advertised to update RENAME_REF ref in the
-   commit log message that introduced the feature but not anywhere in
-   the documentation, and never did update such a ref anyway. This
-   undocumented misfeature that did not exist has been excised.
-   (merge b0eab01 jc/maint-remove-renamed-ref later to maint).
+ * "git blame" was aborted if started from an uncommitted content and
+   the path had the textconv filter in effect.
+   (merge 8518088 ss/blame-textconv-fake-working-tree later to maint).
 
  * Adding many refs to the local repository in one go (e.g. "git fetch"
    that fetches many tags) and looking up a ref by name in a repository
    with too many refs were unnecessarily slow.
    (merge 17d68a54d jp/get-ref-dir-unsorted later to maint).
 
- * "git fetch --prune" was unsafe when used with refspecs from the
-   command line.
-   (merge e8c1e6c cn/fetch-prune later to maint).
-
  * Report from "git commit" on untracked files was confused under
    core.ignorecase option.
-   (merge 2548183b jk/name-hash-dirent later to maint).
-
- * The attribute mechanism did not use case insensitive match when
-   core.ignorecase was set.
-   (merge 6eba621 bc/attr-ignore-case later to maint).
-
- * "git bisect" did not notice when it failed to update the working tree
-   to the next commit to be tested.
-   (merge 1acf11717 js/bisect-no-checkout later to maint).
-
- * "git config --bool --get-regexp" failed to separate the variable name
-   and its value "true" when the variable is defined without "= true".
-   (merge 880e3cc mm/maint-config-explicit-bool-display later to maint).
-
- * "git remote rename $a $b" were not careful to match the remote name
-   against $a (i.e. source side of the remote nickname).
-   (merge b52d00aed mz/remote-rename later to maint).
-
- * "git diff --[num]stat" used to use the number of lines of context
-   different from the default, potentially giving different results from
-   "git diff | diffstat" and confusing the users.
-   (merge f01cae918 jc/maint-diffstat-numstat-context later to maint).
+   (merge 395c7356 jk/name-hash-dirent later to maint).
 
  * "git merge" did not understand ":/<pattern>" as a way to name a commit.
 
- * "git mergetool" learned to use its arguments as pathspec, not a path to
-   the file that may not even have any conflict.
-   (merge 6d9990a jm/mergetool-pathspec later to maint).
-
- * "git pull" and "git rebase" did not work well even when GIT_WORK_TREE is
-   set correctly with GIT_DIR if the current directory is outside the working
-   tree.
-   (merge 035b5bf jk/pull-rebase-with-work-tree later to maint).
-
  " "git push" on the receiving end used to call post-receive and post-update
    hooks for attempted removal of non-existing refs.
    (merge 160b81ed ph/push-to-delete-nothing later to maint).
 
- * "git send-email" did not honor the configured hostname when restarting
-   the HELO/EHLO exchange after switching TLS on.
-   (merge 155b940 md/smtp-tls-hello-again later to maint).
-
- * "gitweb" used to produce a non-working link while showing the contents
-   of a blob, when JavaScript actions are enabled.
-   (merge 2b07ff3ff ps/gitweb-js-with-lineno later to maint).
-
- * The logic to filter out forked projects in the project list in
-   "gitweb" was broken for some time.
-   (merge 53c632f jm/maint-gitweb-filter-forks-fix later to maint).
-
----
-exec >/var/tmp/1
-O=v1.7.7.1-492-g324bc2a
-echo O=$(git describe --always master)
-git log --first-parent --oneline --reverse ^$O master
-echo
-git shortlog --no-merges ^$O master
+ * Help text for "git remote set-url" and "git remote set-branches"
+   were misspelled.
+   (merge c49904e fc/remote-seturl-usage-fix later to maint).
+   (merge 656cdf0 jc/remote-setbranches-usage-fix later to maint).
diff --git a/Documentation/RelNotes/1.7.9.txt b/Documentation/RelNotes/1.7.9.txt
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000..258ab7a186
--- /dev/null
+++ b/Documentation/RelNotes/1.7.9.txt
@@ -0,0 +1,62 @@
+Git v1.7.9 Release Notes (draft)
+========================
+
+Updates since v1.7.8
+--------------------
+
+ * 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".
+
+ * 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.
+
+ * The set of built-in function-header patterns for various languages
+   knows MATLAB.
+
+ * "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 branch --edit-description" can be used to add descriptive text
+   to explain what a topic branch is about.
+
+ * "git fmt-merge-msg" learned to take the branch description into
+   account when preparing a merge summary that "git merge" records
+   when merging a local branch.
+
+ * "git request-pull" has been updated to convey more information
+   useful for integrators to decide if a topic is worth merging and
+   what is pulled is indeed what the requestor asked to pull,
+   including:
+
+   - the tip of the branch being requested to be merged;
+   - the branch description describing what the topic is about;
+   - the contents of the annotated tag, when requesting to pull a tag.
+
+ * "git pull" learned to notice 'pull.rebase' configuration variable,
+   which serves as a global fallback for setting 'branch.<name>.rebase'
+   configuration variable per branch.
+
+
+Also contains minor documentation updates and code clean-ups.
+
+
+Fixes since v1.7.8
+------------------
+
+ * In some codepaths (notably, checkout and merge), the ignore patterns
+   recorded in $GIT_DIR/info/exclude were not honored. They now are.
+   (merge fc001b5 nd/maint-ignore-exclude later to maint).
+
+
+--
+exec >/var/tmp/1
+O=v1.7.8-162-gd2c7807
+echo O=$(git describe master)
+git log --first-parent --oneline --reverse ^$O master
+echo
+git shortlog --no-merges ^$O ^maint master