3 files changed, 135 insertions, 15 deletions
diff --git a/Documentation/RelNotes/1.8.0.3.txt b/Documentation/RelNotes/1.8.0.3.txt
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000..92b1e4b363
--- /dev/null
+++ b/Documentation/RelNotes/1.8.0.3.txt
@@ -0,0 +1,14 @@
+Git v1.8.0.3 Release Notes
+==========================
+
+Fixes since v1.8.0.2
+--------------------
+
+ * "git log -p -S<string>" did not apply the textconv filter while
+   looking for the <string>.
+
+ * In the documentation, some invalid example e-mail addresses were
+   formatted into mailto: links.
+
+Also contains many documentation updates backported from the 'master'
+branch that is preparing for the upcoming 1.8.1 release.
diff --git a/Documentation/RelNotes/1.8.1.txt b/Documentation/RelNotes/1.8.1.txt
index fec1a06ec9..d6f9555923 100644
--- a/Documentation/RelNotes/1.8.1.txt
+++ b/Documentation/RelNotes/1.8.1.txt
@@ -29,24 +29,17 @@ UI, Workflows & Features
 
  * Command-line completion scripts for tcsh and zsh have been added.
 
- * A new remote-helper interface for Mercurial has been added to
-   contrib/remote-helpers.
+ * "git-prompt" scriptlet (in contrib/completion) can be told to paint
+   pieces of the hints in the prompt string in colors.
+
+ * Some documentation pages that used to ship only in the plain text
+   format are now formatted in HTML as well.
 
  * We used to have a workaround for a bug in ancient "less" that
    causes it to exit without any output when the terminal is resized.
    The bug has been fixed in "less" version 406 (June 2007), and the
    workaround has been removed in this release.
 
- * Some documentation pages that used to ship only in the plain text
-   format are now formatted in HTML as well.
-
- * "git-prompt" scriptlet (in contrib/completion) can be told to paint
-   pieces of the hints in the prompt string in colors.
-
- * A new configuration variable "diff.context" can be used to
-   give the default number of context lines in the patch output, to
-   override the hardcoded default of 3 lines.
-
  * When "git checkout" checks out a branch, it tells the user how far
    behind (or ahead) the new branch is relative to the remote tracking
    branch it builds upon.  The message now also advises how to sync
@@ -60,13 +53,17 @@ UI, Workflows & Features
    API regression but it is expected that nobody will notice it in
    practice.
 
- * "git log -p -S<string>" now looks for the <string> after applying
-   the textconv filter (if defined); earlier it inspected the contents
-   of the blobs without filtering.
+ * A new configuration variable "diff.context" can be used to
+   give the default number of context lines in the patch output, to
+   override the hardcoded default of 3 lines.
 
  * "git format-patch" learned the "--notes=<ref>" option to give
    notes for the commit after the three-dash lines in its output.
 
+ * "git log -p -S<string>" now looks for the <string> after applying
+   the textconv filter (if defined); earlier it inspected the contents
+   of the blobs without filtering.
+
  * "git log --grep=<pcre>" learned to honor the "grep.patterntype"
    configuration set to "perl".
 
@@ -116,6 +113,9 @@ Foreign Interface
  * The remote helper interface to interact with subversion
    repositories (one of the GSoC 2012 projects) has been merged.
 
+ * A new remote-helper interface for Mercurial has been added to
+   contrib/remote-helpers.
+
  * The documentation for git(1) was pointing at a page at an external
    site for the list of authors that no longer existed.  The link has
    been updated to point at an alternative site.
diff --git a/Documentation/RelNotes/1.8.2.txt b/Documentation/RelNotes/1.8.2.txt
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000..6c85bf4f0f
--- /dev/null
+++ b/Documentation/RelNotes/1.8.2.txt
@@ -0,0 +1,106 @@
+Git v1.8.2 Release Notes
+========================
+
+Backward compatibility notes
+----------------------------
+
+In the upcoming major release (tentatively called 1.8.2), we will
+change the behavior of the "git push" command.
+
+When "git push [$there]" does not say what to push, we have used the
+traditional "matching" semantics so far (all your branches were sent
+to the remote as long as there already are branches of the same name
+over there).  We will use the "simple" semantics that pushes the
+current branch to the branch with the same name, only when the current
+branch is set to integrate with that remote branch.  There is a user
+preference configuration variable "push.default" to change this.
+
+
+Updates since v1.8.1
+--------------------
+
+UI, Workflows & Features
+
+ * Initial ports to QNX and z/OS UNIX System Services have started.
+
+ * Output from the tests is coloured using "green is okay, yellow is
+   questionable, red is bad and blue is informative" scheme.
+
+Foreign Interface
+
+ *
+
+Performance, Internal Implementation, etc.
+
+ *
+
+Also contains minor documentation updates and code clean-ups.
+
+
+Fixes since v1.8.1
+------------------
+
+Unless otherwise noted, all the fixes since v1.8.1 in the maintenance
+track are contained in this release (see release notes to them for
+details).
+
+ * An element on GIT_CEILING_DIRECTORIES list that does not name the
+   real path to a directory (i.e. a symbolic link) could have caused
+   the GIT_DIR discovery logic to escape the ceiling.
+   (merge 059b379 mh/ceiling later to maint).
+
+ * t4014, t9502 and t0200 tests had various portability issues that
+   broke on OpenBSD.
+   (merge 27f6342 jc/maint-test-portability later to maint).
+
+ * t9020 and t3600 tests had various portability issues.
+   (merge 5a02966 jc/test-portability later to maint).
+
+ * t9200 runs "cvs init" on a directory that already exists, but a
+   platform can configure this fail for the current user (e.g. you
+   need to be in the cvsadmin group on NetBSD 6.0).
+   (merge 8666df0 jc/test-cvs-no-init-in-existing-dir later to maint).
+
+ * The behaviour visible to the end users was confusing, when they
+   attempt to kill a process spawned in the editor that was in turn
+   launched by Git with SIGINT (or SIGQUIT), as Git would catch that
+   signal and die.  We ignore these signals now.
+   (merge 1250857 pf/editor-ignore-sigint later to maint).
+
+ * After failing to create a temporary file using mkstemp(), failing
+   pathname was not reported correctly on some platforms.
+   (merge f7be59b jc/mkstemp-more-careful-error-reporting later to maint).
+
+ * The way "git svn" asked for password using SSH_ASKPASS and
+   GIT_ASKPASS was not in line with the rest of the system.
+   (merge e9263e4 ss/svn-prompt later to maint).
+
+ * The --graph code fell into infinite loop when asked to do what the
+   code did not expect.
+   (merge 656197a mk/maint-graph-infinity-loop later to maint).
+
+ * http transport was wrong to ask for the username when the
+   authentication is done by certificate identity.
+   (merge 75e9a40 rb/http-cert-cred-no-username-prompt later to maint).
+
+ * "git pack-refs" that ran in parallel to another process that
+   created new refs had a nasty race.
+   (merge b3f1280 jk/repack-ref-racefix later to maint).
+
+ * After "git add -N" and then writing a tree object out of the
+   index, the cache-tree data structure got corrupted.
+   (merge eec3e7e nd/invalidate-i-t-a-cache-tree later to maint).
+
+ * "gitweb", when sorting by age to show repositories with new
+   activities first, used to sort repositories with absolutely
+   nothing in it early, which was not very useful.
+   (merge 28dae18 md/gitweb-sort-by-age later to maint).
+
+ * When a line to be wrapped has a solid run of non space characters
+   whose length exactly is the wrap width, "git shortlog -w" failed
+   to add a newline after such a line.
+   (merge e0db176 sp/shortlog-missing-lf later to maint).
+
+ * Some shells do not behave correctly when IFS is unset; work it
+   around by explicitly setting it to the default value.
+   (merge 393050c jc/maint-fbsd-sh-ifs-workaround later to maint).