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diff --git a/Documentation/RelNotes/2.12.0.txt b/Documentation/RelNotes/2.12.0.txt
index 1841b065e8..29154805b4 100644
--- a/Documentation/RelNotes/2.12.0.txt
+++ b/Documentation/RelNotes/2.12.0.txt
@@ -131,6 +131,9 @@ UI, Workflows & Features
    other than the ones that are expected to be updated (i.e. branches,
    remote-tracking branches and notes).
 
+ * Comes with more command line completion (in contrib/) for recently
+   introduced options.
+
 
 Performance, Internal Implementation, Development Support etc.
 
@@ -450,6 +453,31 @@ notes for details).
    other forms of "diff" output were handled correctly.
    (merge f5022b5fed jk/log-graph-name-only later to maint).
 
+ * The push-options given via the "--push-options" option were not
+   passed through to external remote helpers such as "smart HTTP" that
+   are invoked via the transport helper.
+
+ * The documentation explained what "git stash" does to the working
+   tree (after stashing away the local changes) in terms of "reset
+   --hard", which was exposing an unnecessary implementation detail.
+   (merge 20a7e06172 tg/stash-doc-cleanup later to maint).
+
+ * When "git p4" imports changelist that removes paths, it failed to
+   convert pathnames when the p4 used encoding different from the one
+   used on the Git side.  This has been corrected.
+   (merge a8b05162e8 ls/p4-path-encoding later to maint).
+
+ * A new coccinelle rule that catches a check of !pointer before the
+   pointer is free(3)d, which most likely is a bug.
+   (merge ec6cd14c7a rs/cocci-check-free-only-null later to maint).
+
+ * "ls-files" run with pathspec has been micro-optimized to avoid
+   having to memmove(3) unnecessary bytes.
+   (merge 96f6d3f61a rs/ls-files-partial-optim later to maint).
+
+ * A hotfix for a topic already in 'master'.
+   (merge a4d92d579f js/mingw-isatty later to maint).
+
  * Other minor doc, test and build updates and code cleanups.
    (merge f2627d9b19 sb/submodule-config-cleanup later to maint).
    (merge 384f1a167b sb/unpack-trees-cleanup later to maint).
@@ -459,3 +487,14 @@ notes for details).
    (merge 4432dd6b5b rs/receive-pack-cleanup later to maint).
    (merge 540a398e9c sg/mailmap-self later to maint).
    (merge 209df269a6 nd/rev-list-all-includes-HEAD-doc later to maint).
+   (merge 941b9c5270 sb/doc-unify-bottom later to maint).
+   (merge 2aaf37b62c jk/doc-remote-helpers-markup-fix later to maint).
+   (merge e91461b332 jk/doc-submodule-markup-fix later to maint).
+   (merge 8ab9740d9f dp/submodule-doc-markup-fix later to maint).
+   (merge 0838cbc22f jk/tempfile-ferror-fclose-confusion later to maint).
+   (merge 115a40add6 dr/doc-check-ref-format-normalize later to maint).
+   (merge 133f0a299d gp/document-dotfiles-in-templates-are-not-copied later to maint).
+   (merge 2b35a9f4c7 bc/blame-doc-fix later to maint).
+   (merge 7e82388024 ps/doc-gc-aggressive-depth-update later to maint).
+   (merge 9993a7c5f1 bc/worktree-doc-fix-detached later to maint).
+   (merge e519eccdf4 rt/align-add-i-help-text later to maint).
diff --git a/Documentation/RelNotes/2.12.1.txt b/Documentation/RelNotes/2.12.1.txt
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000..a74f7db747
--- /dev/null
+++ b/Documentation/RelNotes/2.12.1.txt
@@ -0,0 +1,41 @@
+Git v2.12.1 Release Notes
+=========================
+
+Fixes since v2.12
+-----------------
+
+ * Reduce authentication round-trip over HTTP when the server supports
+   just a single authentication method.  This also improves the
+   behaviour when Git is misconfigured to enable http.emptyAuth
+   against a server that does not authenticate without a username
+   (i.e. not using Kerberos etc., which makes http.emptyAuth
+   pointless).
+
+ * Windows port wants to use OpenSSL's implementation of SHA-1
+   routines, so let them.
+
+ * Add 32-bit Linux variant to the set of platforms to be tested with
+   Travis CI.
+
+ * When a redirected http transport gets an error during the
+   redirected request, we ignored the error we got from the server,
+   and ended up giving a not-so-useful error message.
+
+ * The patch subcommand of "git add -i" was meant to have paths
+   selection prompt just like other subcommand, unlike "git add -p"
+   directly jumps to hunk selection.  Recently, this was broken and
+   "add -i" lost the paths selection dialog, but it now has been
+   fixed.
+
+ * Git v2.12 was shipped with an embarrassing breakage where various
+   operations that verify paths given from the user stopped dying when
+   seeing an issue, and instead later triggering segfault.
+
+ * The code to parse "git log -L..." command line was buggy when there
+   are many ranges specified with -L; overrun of the allocated buffer
+   has been fixed.
+
+ * The command-line parsing of "git log -L" copied internal data
+   structures using incorrect size on ILP32 systems.
+
+Also contains various documentation updates and code clean-ups.
diff --git a/Documentation/RelNotes/2.12.2.txt b/Documentation/RelNotes/2.12.2.txt
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000..9efc348353
--- /dev/null
+++ b/Documentation/RelNotes/2.12.2.txt
@@ -0,0 +1,61 @@
+Git v2.12.2 Release Notes
+=========================
+
+Fixes since v2.12.1
+-------------------
+
+ * "git status --porcelain" is supposed to give a stable output, but a
+   few strings were left as translatable by mistake.
+
+ * "Dumb http" transport used to misparse a nonsense http-alternates
+   response, which has been fixed.
+
+ * "git diff --quiet" relies on the size field in diff_filespec to be
+   correctly populated, but diff_populate_filespec() helper function
+   made an incorrect short-cut when asked only to populate the size
+   field for paths that need to go through convert_to_git() (e.g. CRLF
+   conversion).
+
+ * There is no need for Python only to give a few messages to the
+   standard error stream, but we somehow did.
+
+ * A leak in a codepath to read from a packed object in (rare) cases
+   has been plugged.
+
+ * "git upload-pack", which is a counter-part of "git fetch", did not
+   report a request for a ref that was not advertised as invalid.
+   This is generally not a problem (because "git fetch" will stop
+   before making such a request), but is the right thing to do.
+
+ * A "gc.log" file left by a backgrounded "gc --auto" disables further
+   automatic gc; it has been taught to run at least once a day (by
+   default) by ignoring a stale "gc.log" file that is too old.
+
+ * "git remote rm X", when a branch has remote X configured as the
+   value of its branch.*.remote, tried to remove branch.*.remote and
+   branch.*.merge and failed if either is unset.
+
+ * A caller of tempfile API that uses stdio interface to write to
+   files may ignore errors while writing, which is detected when
+   tempfile is closed (with a call to ferror()).  By that time, the
+   original errno that may have told us what went wrong is likely to
+   be long gone and was overwritten by an irrelevant value.
+   close_tempfile() now resets errno to EIO to make errno at least
+   predictable.
+
+ * "git show-branch" expected there were only very short branch names
+   in the repository and used a fixed-length buffer to hold them
+   without checking for overflow.
+
+ * The code that parses header fields in the commit object has been
+   updated for (micro)performance and code hygiene.
+
+ * A test that creates a confusing branch whose name is HEAD has been
+   corrected not to do so.
+
+ * "Cc:" on the trailer part does not have to conform to RFC strictly,
+   unlike in the e-mail header.  "git send-email" has been updated to
+   ignore anything after '>' when picking addresses, to allow non-address
+   cruft like " # stable 4.4" after the address.
+
+Also contains various documentation updates and code clean-ups.