8 files changed, 103 insertions, 9 deletions

diff --git a/Documentation/RelNotes/1.7.10.1.txt b/Documentation/RelNotes/1.7.10.1.txt
index 806a965a1b..be68524cff 100644
--- a/Documentation/RelNotes/1.7.10.1.txt
+++ b/Documentation/RelNotes/1.7.10.1.txt
@@ -14,7 +14,7 @@ Fixes since v1.7.10
    not exclude them and tried to apply funny patches only to fail.
 
  * "git blame" started missing quite a few changes from the origin
-   since we stopped using the diff minimalization by default in v1.7.2
+   since we stopped using the diff minimization by default in v1.7.2
    era.
 
  * When PATH contains an unreadable directory, alias expansion code
diff --git a/Documentation/RelNotes/1.7.5.4.txt b/Documentation/RelNotes/1.7.5.4.txt
index cf3f455ced..7796df3fe4 100644
--- a/Documentation/RelNotes/1.7.5.4.txt
+++ b/Documentation/RelNotes/1.7.5.4.txt
@@ -5,7 +5,7 @@ Fixes since v1.7.5.3
 --------------------
 
  * The single-key mode of "git add -p" was easily fooled into thinking
-   that it was told to add everthing ('a') when up-arrow was pressed by
+   that it was told to add everything ('a') when up-arrow was pressed by
    mistake.
 
  * Setting a git command that uses custom configuration via "-c var=val"
diff --git a/Documentation/RelNotes/1.7.8.2.txt b/Documentation/RelNotes/1.7.8.2.txt
index e74f4ef1ef..b9c66aa1b7 100644
--- a/Documentation/RelNotes/1.7.8.2.txt
+++ b/Documentation/RelNotes/1.7.8.2.txt
@@ -12,11 +12,11 @@ Fixes since v1.7.8.1
  * 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
+ * The replacement implementation 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
+   be technically 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.
diff --git a/Documentation/RelNotes/1.7.8.txt b/Documentation/RelNotes/1.7.8.txt
index b4d90bba0f..249311361e 100644
--- a/Documentation/RelNotes/1.7.8.txt
+++ b/Documentation/RelNotes/1.7.8.txt
@@ -9,7 +9,7 @@ Updates since v1.7.7
  * Updates to bash completion scripts.
 
  * The build procedure has been taught to take advantage of computed
-   dependency automatically when the complier supports it.
+   dependency automatically when the compiler supports it.
 
  * The date parser now accepts timezone designators that lack minutes
    part and also has a colon between "hh:mm".
@@ -31,7 +31,7 @@ Updates since v1.7.7
  * Variants of "git cherry-pick" and "git revert" that take multiple
    commits learned to "--continue" and "--abort".
 
- * "git daemon" gives more human readble error messages to clients
+ * "git daemon" gives more human readable error messages to clients
    using ERR packets when appropriate.
 
  * Errors at the network layer is logged by "git daemon".
diff --git a/Documentation/RelNotes/1.8.2.1.txt b/Documentation/RelNotes/1.8.2.1.txt
index 1354ad03f5..769a6fc06c 100644
--- a/Documentation/RelNotes/1.8.2.1.txt
+++ b/Documentation/RelNotes/1.8.2.1.txt
@@ -49,7 +49,7 @@ Fixes since v1.8.2
    common prefix and suffix between the two filenames overlapped.
 
  * "git submodule update", when recursed into sub-submodules, did not
-   acccumulate the prefix paths.
+   accumulate the prefix paths.
 
  * "git am $maildir/" applied messages in an unexpected order; sort
    filenames read from the maildir/ in a way that is more likely to
diff --git a/Documentation/RelNotes/1.8.2.2.txt b/Documentation/RelNotes/1.8.2.2.txt
index dab4831ca0..708df1ae19 100644
--- a/Documentation/RelNotes/1.8.2.2.txt
+++ b/Documentation/RelNotes/1.8.2.2.txt
@@ -58,4 +58,4 @@ Fixes since v1.8.2.1
    conflicts have been applied.
 
  * "git bundle" did not like a bundle created using a commit without
-   any message as its one of the prerequistes.
+   any message as its one of the prerequisites.
diff --git a/Documentation/RelNotes/1.8.3.4.txt b/Documentation/RelNotes/1.8.3.4.txt
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000..56f106e262
--- /dev/null
+++ b/Documentation/RelNotes/1.8.3.4.txt
@@ -0,0 +1,20 @@
+Git v1.8.3.4 Release Notes
+==========================
+
+This update is mostly to propagate documentation fixes and test
+updates from the master front back to the maintenance track.
+
+Fixes since v1.8.3.3
+--------------------
+
+ * The bisect log listed incorrect commits when bisection ends with
+   only skipped ones.
+
+ * The test coverage framework was left broken for some time.
+
+ * The test suite for HTTP transport did not run with Apache 2.4.
+
+ * "git diff" used to fail when core.safecrlf is set and the working
+   tree contents had mixed CRLF/LF line endings. Committing such a
+   content must be prohibited, but "git diff" should help the user to
+   locate and fix such problems without failing.
diff --git a/Documentation/RelNotes/1.8.4.txt b/Documentation/RelNotes/1.8.4.txt
index ba36cc4587..b4f8737c5a 100644
--- a/Documentation/RelNotes/1.8.4.txt
+++ b/Documentation/RelNotes/1.8.4.txt
@@ -48,6 +48,8 @@ Updates since v1.8.3
 
 Foreign interfaces, subsystems and ports.
 
+ * Cygwin port has been updated for more recent Cygwin 1.7.
+
  * "git rebase -i" now honors --strategy and -X options.
 
  * Git-gui has been updated to its 0.18.0 version.
@@ -76,9 +78,49 @@ Foreign interfaces, subsystems and ports.
  * git-remote-mw (in contrib/) hints users to check the certificate,
    when https:// connection failed.
 
+ * git-remote-mw (in contrib/) adds a command to allow previewing the
+   contents locally before pushing it out, when working with a
+   MediaWiki remote.
+
 
 UI, Workflows & Features
 
+ * Sample "post-receive-email" hook script got an enhanced replacement
+   "multimail" (in contrib/).
+
+ * Also in contrib/ is a new "contacts" script that runs "git blame"
+   to find out the people who may be interested in a set of changes.
+
+ * "git clean" command learned an interactive mode.
+
+ * The "--head" option to "git show-ref" was only to add "HEAD" to the
+   list of candidate refs to be filtered by the usual rules
+   (e.g. "--heads" that only show refs under refs/heads).  The meaning
+   of the option has been changed to always show "HEAD" regardless of
+   what filtering will be applied to any other ref.
+
+   This is a backward incompatible change and might cause breakages to
+   people's existing scripts.
+
+ * "git show -s" was less discoverable than it should have been.  It
+   now has a natural synonym "git show --no-patch".
+
+ * "git check-mailmap" is a new command that lets you map usernames
+   and e-mail addresses through the mailmap mechanism, just like many
+   built-in commands do.
+
+ * "git name-rev" learned to name an annotated tag object back to its
+   tagname; "git name-rev $(git rev-parse v1.0.0)" gives "tags/v1.0.0",
+   for example.
+
+ * "git cat-file --batch-check=<format>" is added, primarily to allow
+   on-disk footprint of objects in packfiles (often they are a lot
+   smaller than their true size, when expressed as deltas) to be
+   reported.
+
+ * "git rebase [-i]" used to leave just "rebase" as its reflog messages
+   for some operations. They have been reworded to be more informative.
+
  * In addition to the choice from "rebase, merge, or checkout-detach",
    "submodule update" can allow a custom command to be used in to
    update the working tree of submodules via the "submodule.*.update"
@@ -148,7 +190,7 @@ UI, Workflows & Features
    directly uses the 40-hex string as an object name, even if a ref
    "refs/<some hierarchy>/<name>" exists.  This disambiguation order
    is unlikely to change, but we should warn about the ambiguity just
-   like we warn when more than one refs/ hierachies share the same
+   like we warn when more than one refs/ hierarchies share the same
    name.
 
  * "git rebase" learned "--[no-]autostash" option to save local
@@ -200,6 +242,14 @@ UI, Workflows & Features
 
 Performance, Internal Implementation, etc.
 
+ * The function attributes extensions are used to catch mistakes in
+   use of our own variadic functions that use NULL sentinel at the end
+   (i.e. like execl(3)) and format strings (i.e. like printf(3)).
+
+ * The code to allow configuration data to be read from in-tree blob
+   objects is in.  This may help working in a bare repository and
+   submodule updates.
+
  * Fetching between repositories with many refs employed O(n^2)
    algorithm to match up the common objects, which has been corrected.
 
@@ -268,6 +318,30 @@ Unless otherwise noted, all the fixes since v1.8.3 in the maintenance
 track are contained in this release (see release notes to them for
 details).
 
+ * Newer Net::SMTP::SSL module does not want the user programs to use
+   the default behaviour to let server certificate go without
+   verification, so by default enable the verification with a
+   mechanism to turn it off if needed.
+   (merge 35035bb rr/send-email-ssl-verify later to maint).
+
+ * When "git" is spawned in such a way that any of the low 3 file
+   descriptors is closed, our first open() may yield file descriptor 2,
+   and writing error message to it would screw things up in a big way.
+   (merge a11c396 tr/protect-low-3-fds later to maint).
+
+ * The mailmap mechanism unnecessarily downcased the e-mail addresses
+   in the output, and also ignored the human name when it is a single
+   character name.
+   (merge bd23794 jc/mailmap-case-insensitivity later to maint).
+
+ * In two places we did not check return value (expected to be a file
+   descriptor) correctly.
+   (merge a77f106 tr/fd-gotcha-fixes later to maint).
+
+ * Logic to auto-detect character encodings in the commit log message
+   did not reject overlong and invalid UTF-8 characters.
+   (merge 81050ac bc/commit-invalid-utf8 later to maint).
+
  * Pass port number as a separate argument when "send-email" initializes
    Net::SMTP, instead of as a part of the hostname, i.e. host:port.
    This allows GSSAPI codepath to match with the hostname given.