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diff --git a/Documentation/RelNotes/1.8.3.2.txt b/Documentation/RelNotes/1.8.3.2.txt
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+++ b/Documentation/RelNotes/1.8.3.2.txt
@@ -0,0 +1,59 @@
+Git v1.8.3.2 Release Notes
+==========================
+
+Fixes since v1.8.3.1
+--------------------
+
+ * Cloning with "git clone --depth N" while fetch.fsckobjects (or
+   transfer.fsckobjects) is set to true did not tell the cut-off
+   points of the shallow history to the process that validates the
+   objects and the history received, causing the validation to fail.
+
+ * "git checkout foo" DWIMs the intended "upstream" and turns it into
+   "git checkout -t -b foo remotes/origin/foo". This codepath has been
+   updated to correctly take existing remote definitions into account.
+
+ * "git fetch" into a shallow repository from a repository that does
+   not know about the shallow boundary commits (e.g. a different fork
+   from the repository the current shallow repository was cloned from)
+   did not work correctly.
+
+ * "git subtree" (in contrib/) had one codepath with loose error
+   checks to lose data at the remote side.
+
+ * "git log --ancestry-path A...B" did not work as expected, as it did
+   not pay attention to the fact that the merge base between A and B
+   was the bottom of the range being specified.
+
+ * "git diff -c -p" was not showing a deleted line from a hunk when
+   another hunk immediately begins where the earlier one ends.
+
+ * "git merge @{-1}~22" was rewritten to "git merge frotz@{1}~22"
+   incorrectly when your previous branch was "frotz" (it should be
+   rewritten to "git merge frotz~22" instead).
+
+ * "git commit --allow-empty-message -m ''" should not start an
+   editor.
+
+ * "git push --[no-]verify" was not documented.
+
+ * An entry for "file://" scheme in the enumeration of URL types Git
+   can take in the HTML documentation was made into a clickable link
+   by mistake.
+
+ * zsh prompt script that borrowed from bash prompt script did not
+   work due to slight differences in array variable notation between
+   these two shells.
+
+ * The bash prompt code (in contrib/) displayed the name of the branch
+   being rebased when "rebase -i/-m/-p" modes are in use, but not the
+   plain vanilla "rebase".
+
+ * "git push $there HEAD:branch" did not resolve HEAD early enough, so
+   it was easy to flip it around while push is still going on and push
+   out a branch that the user did not originally intended when the
+   command was started.
+
+ * "difftool --dir-diff" did not copy back changes made by the
+   end-user in the diff tool backend to the working tree in some
+   cases.
diff --git a/Documentation/RelNotes/1.8.3.3.txt b/Documentation/RelNotes/1.8.3.3.txt
new file mode 100644
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+++ b/Documentation/RelNotes/1.8.3.3.txt
@@ -0,0 +1,11 @@
+Git v1.8.3.3 Release Notes
+==========================
+
+Fixes since v1.8.3.2
+--------------------
+
+ * Mac OS X does not like to write(2) more than INT_MAX number of
+   bytes; work it around by chopping write(2) into smaller pieces.
+
+ * Newer MacOS X encourages the programs to compile and link with
+   their CommonCrypto, not with OpenSSL.
diff --git a/Documentation/RelNotes/1.8.4.txt b/Documentation/RelNotes/1.8.4.txt
index 69ab64efae..5f440b8a6b 100644
--- a/Documentation/RelNotes/1.8.4.txt
+++ b/Documentation/RelNotes/1.8.4.txt
@@ -35,6 +35,14 @@ Foreign interfaces, subsystems and ports.
 
 UI, Workflows & Features
 
+ * Various subcommands of "git submodule" refused to run from anywhere
+   other than the top of the working tree of the superproject, but
+   they have been taught to let you run from a subdirectory.
+
+ * "git diff" learned a mode that ignores hunks whose change consists
+   only of additions and removals of blank lines, which is the same as
+   "diff -B" (ignore blank lines) of GNU diff.
+
  * "git rm" gives a single message followed by list of paths to report
    multiple paths that cannot be removed.
 
@@ -45,6 +53,9 @@ UI, Workflows & Features
    thing after you set "user.name/email" to introduce yourselves to
    Git.  Now the variable defaults to "auto".
 
+ * On Cygwin, "cygstart" is now recognised as a possible way to start
+   a web browser (used in "help -w" and "instaweb" among others).
+
 ### * "git status" learned status.branch and status.short configuration
 ###   variables to use --branch and --short options by default (override
 ###   with --no-branch and --no-short options from the command line).
@@ -105,6 +116,16 @@ UI, Workflows & Features
 
 Performance, Internal Implementation, etc.
 
+ * "git pack-refs" that races with new ref creation or deletion have
+   been susceptible to lossage of refs under right conditions, which
+   has been tightened up.
+
+ * We read loose and packed rerferences in two steps, but after
+   deciding to read a loose ref but before actually opening it to read
+   it, another process racing with us can unlink it, which would cause
+   us to barf.  The codepath has been updated to retry when such a
+   race is detected, instead of outright failing.
+
  * Uses of the platform fnmatch(3) function (many places in the code,
    matching pathspec, .gitignore and .gitattributes to name a few)
    have been replaced with wildmatch, allowing "foo/**/bar" that would
@@ -154,6 +175,28 @@ 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).
 
+ * "git name-rev --refs=tags/v*" were forbidden, which was a bit
+   inconvenient (you had to give a pattern to match refs fully, like
+   --refs=refs/tags/v*).
+   (merge 98c5c4a nk/name-rev-abbreviated-refs later to maint).
+
+ * "git apply" parsed patches that add new files, generated by
+   programs other than Git, incorrectly.  This is an old breakage in
+   v1.7.11 and will need to be merged down to the maintanance tracks.
+   (merge 212eb96 tr/maint-apply-non-git-patch-parsefix later to maint).
+
+ * Older cURL wanted piece of memory we call it with to be stable, but
+   we updated the auth material after handing it to a call.
+   (merge a94cf2c bc/http-keep-memory-given-to-curl later to maint).
+
+ * "git pull" into nothing trashed "local changes" that were in the
+   index, and this avoids it.
+   (merge b4dc085 jk/pull-into-dirty-unborn later to maint).
+
+ * Many "git submodule" operations do not work on a submodule at a
+   path whose name is not in ASCII.
+   (merge bed9470 fg/submodule-non-ascii-path later to maint).
+
  * "cherry-pick" had a small leak in an error codepath.
    (merge 706728a fc/sequencer-plug-leak later to maint).
 
@@ -161,7 +204,8 @@ details).
    "A U. Thor" <author@example.xz>, where the human readable part
    needs to be quoted (the user input may not have the double quotes
    around the name, and comparison was done between quoted and
-   unquoted strings).
+   unquoted strings).  It also mishandled names that need RFC2047
+   quoting.
    (merge 1495266 mt/send-email-cc-match-fix later to maint).
 
  * Call to discard_cache/discard_index (used when we use different