8 files changed, 361 insertions, 44 deletions
diff --git a/Documentation/RelNotes/1.7.10.2.txt b/Documentation/RelNotes/1.7.10.2.txt
index 04fe29404c..7a7e9d6fd1 100644
--- a/Documentation/RelNotes/1.7.10.2.txt
+++ b/Documentation/RelNotes/1.7.10.2.txt
@@ -14,6 +14,9 @@ Fixes since v1.7.10.1
  * HTTP transport that requires authentication did not work correctly when
    multiple connections are used simultaneously.
 
+ * Minor memory leak during unpack_trees (hence "merge" and "checkout"
+   to check out another branch) has been plugged.
+
  * In the older days, the header "Conflicts:" in "cherry-pick" and "merge"
    was separated by a blank line from the list of paths that follow for
    readability, but when "merge" was rewritten in C, we lost it by
@@ -24,6 +27,9 @@ Fixes since v1.7.10.1
    be both revision name and a pathname, even though $name can never be a
    path in the context of the command.
 
+ * The "include.path" facility in the configuration mechanism added in
+   1.7.10 forgot to interpret "~/path" and "~user/path" as it should.
+
  * "git config --rename-section" to rename an existing section into a
    bogus one did not check the new name.
 
@@ -33,11 +39,44 @@ Fixes since v1.7.10.1
  * The report from "git fetch" said "new branch" even for a non branch
    ref.
 
+ * The http-backend (the server side of the smart http transfer) used
+   to overwrite GIT_COMMITTER_NAME and GIT_COMMITTER_EMAIL with the
+   value obtained from REMOTE_USER unconditionally, making it
+   impossible for the server side site-specific customization to use
+   different identity sources to affect the names logged. It now uses
+   REMOTE_USER only as a fallback value.
+
+ * "log --graph" was not very friendly with "--stat" option and its
+   output had line breaks at wrong places.
+
  * Octopus merge strategy did not reduce heads that are recorded in the
    final commit correctly.
 
+ * "git push" over smart-http lost progress output a few releases ago;
+   this release resurrects it.
+
+ * The error and advice messages given by "git push" when it fails due
+   to non-ff were not very helpful to new users; it has been broken
+   into three cases, and each is given a separate advice message.
+
+ * The insn sheet given by "rebase -i" did not make it clear that the
+   insn lines can be re-ordered to affect the order of the commits in
+   the resulting history.
+
+ * "git repack" used to write out unreachable objects as loose objects
+   when repacking, even if such loose objects will immediately pruned
+   due to its age.
+
+ * A contrib script "rerere-train" did not work out of the box unless
+   user futzed with her $PATH.
+
+ * "git rev-parse --show-prefix" used to emit nothing when run at the
+   top-level of the working tree, but now it gives a blank line.
+
  * The i18n of error message "git stash save" was not properly done.
 
+ * "git submodule" used a sed script that some platforms mishandled.
+
  * When using a Perl script on a system where "perl" found on user's
    $PATH could be ancient or otherwise broken, we allow builders to
    specify the path to a good copy of Perl with $PERL_PATH.  The
diff --git a/Documentation/RelNotes/1.7.10.3.txt b/Documentation/RelNotes/1.7.10.3.txt
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000..703fbf1d60
--- /dev/null
+++ b/Documentation/RelNotes/1.7.10.3.txt
@@ -0,0 +1,43 @@
+Git v1.7.10.3 Release Notes
+===========================
+
+Fixes since v1.7.10.2
+---------------------
+
+ * The message file for German translation has been updated a bit.
+
+ * Running "git checkout" on an unborn branch used to corrupt HEAD.
+
+ * When checking out another commit from an already detached state, we
+   used to report all commits that are not reachable from any of the
+   refs as lossage, but some of them might be reachable from the new
+   HEAD, and there is no need to warn about them.
+
+ * Some time ago, "git clone" lost the progress output for its
+   "checkout" phase; when run without any "--quiet" option, it should
+   give progress to the lengthy operation.
+
+ * The directory path used in "git diff --no-index", when it recurses
+   down, was broken with a recent update after v1.7.10.1 release.
+
+ * "log -z --pretty=tformat:..." did not terminate each record with
+   NUL.  The fix is not entirely correct when the output also asks for
+   --patch and/or --stat, though.
+
+ * The DWIM behaviour for "log --pretty=format:%gd -g" was somewhat
+   broken and gave undue precedence to configured log.date, causing
+   "git stash list" to show "stash@{time stamp string}".
+
+ * "git status --porcelain" ignored "--branch" option by mistake.  The
+   output for "git status --branch -z" was also incorrect and did not
+   terminate the record for the current branch name with NUL as asked.
+
+ * When a submodule repository uses alternate object store mechanism,
+   some commands that were started from the superproject did not
+   notice it and failed with "No such object" errors.  The subcommands
+   of "git submodule" command that recursed into the submodule in a
+   separate process were OK; only the ones that cheated and peeked
+   directly into the submodule's repository from the primary process
+   were affected.
+
+Also contains minor fixes and documentation updates.
diff --git a/Documentation/RelNotes/1.7.10.4.txt b/Documentation/RelNotes/1.7.10.4.txt
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000..326670df6e
--- /dev/null
+++ b/Documentation/RelNotes/1.7.10.4.txt
@@ -0,0 +1,29 @@
+Git v1.7.10.4 Release Notes
+===========================
+
+Fixes since v1.7.10.3
+---------------------
+
+ * The message file for Swedish translation has been updated a bit.
+
+ * A name taken from mailmap was copied into an internal buffer
+   incorrectly and could overun the buffer if it is too long.
+
+ * A malformed commit object that has a header line chomped in the
+   middle could kill git with a NULL pointer dereference.
+
+ * An author/committer name that is a single character was mishandled
+   as an invalid name by mistake.
+
+ * The progress indicator for a large "git checkout" was sent to
+   stderr even if it is not a terminal.
+
+ * "git grep -e '$pattern'", unlike the case where the patterns are
+   read from a file, did not treat individual lines in the given
+   pattern argument as separate regular expressions as it should.
+
+ * When "git rebase" was given a bad commit to replay the history on,
+   its error message did not correctly give the command line argument
+   it had trouble parsing.
+
+Also contains minor fixes and documentation updates.
diff --git a/Documentation/RelNotes/1.7.10.5.txt b/Documentation/RelNotes/1.7.10.5.txt
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000..4db1770e38
--- /dev/null
+++ b/Documentation/RelNotes/1.7.10.5.txt
@@ -0,0 +1,12 @@
+Git v1.7.10.5 Release Notes
+===========================
+
+Fixes since v1.7.10.4
+---------------------
+
+ * "git fast-export" did not give a readable error message when the
+   same mark erroneously appeared twice in the --import-marks input.
+
+ * "git rebase -p" used to pay attention to rebase.autosquash which
+    was wrong.  "git rebase -p -i" should, but "git rebase -p" by
+    itself should not.
diff --git a/Documentation/RelNotes/1.7.11.1.txt b/Documentation/RelNotes/1.7.11.1.txt
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000..577eccaacd
--- /dev/null
+++ b/Documentation/RelNotes/1.7.11.1.txt
@@ -0,0 +1,9 @@
+Git v1.7.11.1 Release Notes
+===========================
+
+Fixes since v1.7.11
+-------------------
+
+ * The cross links in the HTML version of manual pages were broken.
+
+Also contains minor typofixes and documentation updates.
diff --git a/Documentation/RelNotes/1.7.11.2.txt b/Documentation/RelNotes/1.7.11.2.txt
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000..a0d24d1270
--- /dev/null
+++ b/Documentation/RelNotes/1.7.11.2.txt
@@ -0,0 +1,53 @@
+Git v1.7.11.2 Release Notes
+===========================
+
+Fixes since v1.7.11.1
+---------------------
+
+ * On Cygwin, the platform pread(2) is not thread safe, just like our
+   own compat/ emulation, and cannot be used in the index-pack
+   program.  Makefile variable NO_THREAD_SAFE_PREAD can be defined to
+   avoid use of this function in a threaded program.
+
+ * "git add" allows adding a regular file to the path where a
+   submodule used to exist, but "git update-index" does not allow an
+   equivalent operation to Porcelain writers.
+
+ * "git archive" incorrectly computed the header checksum; the symptom
+   was observed only when using pathnames with hi-bit set.
+
+ * "git blame" did not try to make sure that the abbreviated commit
+   object names in its output are unique.
+
+ * Running "git bundle verify" on a bundle that records a complete
+   history said "it requires these 0 commits".
+
+ * "git clone --single-branch" to clone a single branch did not limit
+   the cloning to the specified branch.
+
+ * "git diff --no-index" did not correctly handle relative paths and
+   did not correctly give exit codes when run under "--quiet" option.
+
+ * "git diff --no-index" did not work with pagers correctly.
+
+ * "git diff COPYING HEAD:COPYING" gave a nonsense error message that
+   claimed that the treeish HEAD did not have COPYING in it.
+
+ * When "git log" gets "--simplify-merges/by-decoration" together with
+   "--first-parent", the combination of these options makes the
+   simplification logic to use in-core commit objects that haven't
+   been examined for relevance, either producing incorrect result or
+   taking too long to produce any output.  Teach the simplification
+   logic to ignore commits that the first-parent traversal logic
+   ignored when both are in effect to work around the issue.
+
+ * "git ls-files --exclude=t -i" did not consider anything under t/ as
+   excluded, as it did not pay attention to exclusion of leading paths
+   while walking the index.  Other two users of excluded() are also
+   updated.
+
+ * "git request-pull $url dev" when the tip of "dev" branch was tagged
+   with "ext4-for-linus" used the contents from the tag in the output
+   but still asked the "dev" branch to be pulled, not the tag.
+
+Also contains minor typofixes and documentation updates.
diff --git a/Documentation/RelNotes/1.7.11.txt b/Documentation/RelNotes/1.7.11.txt
index 8dfeddcd68..15b954ca4b 100644
--- a/Documentation/RelNotes/1.7.11.txt
+++ b/Documentation/RelNotes/1.7.11.txt
@@ -18,25 +18,30 @@ UI, Workflows & Features
 
  * A third-party tool "git subtree" is distributed in contrib/
 
+ * A remote helper that acts as a proxy and caches ssl session for the
+   https:// transport is added to the contrib/ area.
+
  * Error messages given when @{u} is used for a branch without its
-   upstream configured have been clatified.
+   upstream configured have been clarified.
 
- * Even with "-q"uiet option, "checkout" used to report setting up
+ * Even with the "-q"uiet option, "checkout" used to report setting up
    tracking.  Also "branch" learned the "-q"uiet option to squelch
    informational message.
 
+ * Your build platform may support hardlinks but you may prefer not to
+   use them, e.g. when installing to DESTDIR to make a tarball and
+   untarring on a filesystem that has poor support for hardlinks.
+   There is a Makefile option NO_INSTALL_HARDLINKS for you.
+
  * The smart-http backend used to always override GIT_COMMITTER_*
    variables with REMOTE_USER and REMOTE_ADDR, but these variables are
    now preserved when set.
 
- * "include.path" mechanism of the configuration files learned to
-   understand "~/path" and "~user/path".
-
  * "git am" learned the "--include" option, which is an opposite of
    existing the "--exclude" option.
 
- * When "git am -3" needs to fall back to an application to a
-   synthesized preimage followed by a 3-way merge, the paths that
+ * When "git am -3" needs to fall back to an application of the patch
+   to a synthesized preimage followed by a 3-way merge, the paths that
    needed such treatment are now reported to the end user, so that the
    result in them can be eyeballed with extra care.
 
@@ -48,11 +53,9 @@ UI, Workflows & Features
    after populating two temporary directories, instead of running an
    instance of the external tool once per a file pair.
 
- * The "fmt-merge-msg" command learns to list the primary contributors
-   involved in the side topic you are merging.
-
- * The cases "git push" fails due to non-ff can be broken into three
-   categories; each case is given a separate advise message.
+ * The "fmt-merge-msg" command learned to list the primary contributors
+   involved in the side topic you are merging in a comment in the merge
+   commit template.
 
  * "git rebase" learned to optionally keep commits that do not
    introduce any change in the original history.
@@ -68,51 +71,54 @@ UI, Workflows & Features
 
 Foreign Interface
 
- * "git svn" used to die with unwanted SIGPIPE when talking with HTTP
+ * "git svn" used to die with unwanted SIGPIPE when talking with an HTTP
    server that uses keep-alive.
 
  * "git svn" learned to use platform specific authentication
    providers, e.g. gnome-keyring, kwallet, etc.
 
- * "git p4" has been moved out of contrib/ area and has seen more work
-   on importing labels as tags from (and exporting tags as labels to)
-   p4.
+ * "git p4" has been moved out of the contrib/ area and has seen more
+   work on importing labels as tags from (and exporting tags as labels
+   to) p4.
 
 Performance and Internal Implementation (please report possible regressions)
 
+ * Bash completion script (in contrib/) have been cleaned up to make
+   future work on it simpler.
+
  * An experimental "version 4" format of the index file has been
    introduced to reduce on-disk footprint and I/O overhead.
 
+ * "git archive" learned to produce its output without reading the
+   blob object it writes out in memory in its entirety.
+
+ * "git index-pack" that runs when fetching or pushing objects to
+   complete the packfile on the receiving end learned to use multiple
+   threads to do its job when available.
+
  * The code to compute hash values for lines used by the internal diff
    engine was optimized on little-endian machines, using the same
    trick the kernel folks came up with.
 
  * "git apply" had some memory leaks plugged.
 
- * "git repack" used to write out unreachable objects as loose objects
-   when repacking, even if such loose objects will immediately pruned
-   due to its age.
-
  * Setting up a revision traversal with many starting points was
    inefficient as these were placed in a date-order priority queue
    one-by-one.  Now they are collected in the queue unordered first,
    and sorted immediately before getting used.
 
- * "git rev-parse --show-prefix" used to emit nothing when run at the
-   top-level of the working tree, but now it gives a blank line.
-
- * Minor memory leak during unpack_trees (hence "merge" and "checkout"
-   to check out another branch) has been plugged.
-
  * More lower-level commands learned to use the streaming API to read
    from the object store without keeping everything in core.
 
+ * The weighting parameters to suggestion command name typo have been
+   tweaked, so that "git tags" will suggest "tag?" and not "stage?".
+
  * Because "sh" on the user's PATH may be utterly broken on some
    systems, run-command API now uses SHELL_PATH, not /bin/sh, when
    spawning an external command (not applicable to Windows port).
 
- * The API to iterate over refs/ hierarchy has been tweaked to allow
-   walking only a subset of it more efficiently.
+ * The API to iterate over the refs/ hierarchy has been tweaked to
+   allow walking only a subset of it more efficiently.
 
 Also contains minor documentation updates and code clean-ups.
 
@@ -124,22 +130,10 @@ Unless otherwise noted, all the fixes since v1.7.10 in the maintenance
 releases are contained in this release (see release notes to them for
 details).
 
+ * "git submodule init" used to report "registered for path ..."
+   even for submodules that were registered earlier.
+   (cherry-pick c1c259e jl/submodule-report-new-path-once later to maint).
+
  * "git diff --stat" used to fully count a binary file with modified
    execution bits whose contents is unmodified, which was not quite
    right.
-
- * "log -z --pretty=tformat:..." did not terminate each record with
-   NUL.  The fix is not entirely correct when the output also asks for
-   --patch and/or --stat, though.
-   (merge fafd382 jk/maint-tformat-with-z later to maint).
-
- * "git push" over smart-http lost progress output a few releases ago.
-   (merge e304aeb jk/maint-push-progress later to maint).
-
- * A contrib script "rerere-train" did not work out of the box unless
-   user futzed with her $PATH.
-   (merge 53876fc jc/rerere-train later to maint).
-
- * "log --graph" was not very friendly with "--stat" option and its
-   output had line breaks at wrong places.
-   (merge bafa16e lp/diffstat-with-graph later to maint).
diff --git a/Documentation/RelNotes/1.7.12.txt b/Documentation/RelNotes/1.7.12.txt
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000..067c476e3c
--- /dev/null
+++ b/Documentation/RelNotes/1.7.12.txt
@@ -0,0 +1,138 @@
+Git v1.7.12 Release Notes
+=========================
+
+Updates since v1.7.11
+---------------------
+
+UI, Workflows & Features
+
+ * Git can be told to normalize pathnames it read from readdir(3) and
+   all arguments it got from the command line into precomposed UTF-8
+   (assuming that they come as decomposed UTF-8), in order to work
+   around issues on Mac OS.
+
+   I think there still are other places that need conversion
+   (e.g. paths that are read from stdin for some commands), but this
+   should be a good first step in the right direction.
+
+ * Per-user $HOME/.gitconfig file can optionally be stored in
+   $HOME/.config/git/config instead, which is in line with XDG.
+
+ * The value of core.attributesfile and core.excludesfile default to
+   $HOME/.config/attributes and $HOME/.config/ignore respectively when
+   these files exist.
+
+ * Scripted Porcelain writers now have access to the credential API via
+   the "git credential" plumbing command.
+
+ * "git help" used to always default to "man" format even on platforms
+   where "man" viewer is not widely available.
+
+ * "git clone --local $path" started its life as an experiment to
+   optionally use link/copy when cloning a repository on the disk, but
+   we didn't deprecate it after we made the option a no-op to always
+   use the optimization.  The command learned "--no-local" option to
+   turn this off, as a more explicit alternative over use of file://
+   URL.
+
+ * "git fetch" and friends used to say "remote side hung up
+   unexpectedly" when they failed to get response they expect from the
+   other side, but one common reason why they don't get expected
+   response is that the remote repository does not exist or cannot be
+   read. The error message in this case was updated to give better
+   hints to the user.
+
+ * git native protocol agents learned to show software version over
+   the wire, so that the server log can be examined to see the vintage
+   distribution of clients.
+
+ * "git help -w $cmd" can show HTML version of documentation for
+   "git-$cmd" by setting help.htmlpath to somewhere other than the
+   default location where the build procedure installs them locally;
+   the variable can even point at a http:// URL.
+
+ * "git rebase -i" learned "-x <cmd>" to insert "exec <cmd>" after
+   each commit in the resulting history.
+
+ * "git status" gives finer classification to various states of paths
+   in conflicted state and offer advice messages in its output.
+
+ * "git submodule" learned to deal with nested submodule structure
+   where a module is contained within a module whose origin is
+   specified as a relative URL to its superproject's origin.
+
+ * A rather heavy-ish "git completion" script has been split to create
+   a separate "git prompting" script, to help lazy-autoloading of the
+   completion part while making prompting part always available.
+
+
+Foreign Interface
+
+ * "mediawiki" remote helper (in contrib/) learned to handle file
+   attachments.
+
+ * vcs-svn has been updated to clean-up compilation, lift 32-bit
+   limitations, etc.
+
+
+Performance, Internal Implementation, etc. (please report possible regressions)
+
+ * Some tests showed false failures caused by a bug in ecryptofs.
+
+ * We no longer use AsciiDoc7 syntax in our documentation and favor a
+   more modern style.
+
+ * "git am --rebasing" codepath was taught to grab authorship, log
+   message and the patch text directly out of existing commits.  This
+   will help rebasing commits that have confusing "diff" output in
+   their log messages.
+
+ * "git index-pack" and "git pack-objects" use streaming API to read
+   from the object store to avoid having to hold a large blob object
+   in-core while they are doing their thing.
+
+ * Code to match paths with exclude patterns learned to avoid calling
+   fnmatch() by comparing fixed leading substring literally when
+   possible.
+
+
+Also contains minor documentation updates and code clean-ups.
+
+
+Fixes since v1.7.11
+-------------------
+
+Unless otherwise noted, all the fixes since v1.7.11 in the maintenance
+releases are contained in this release (see release notes to them for
+details).
+
+ * "git show"'s auto-walking behaviour was an unreliable and
+   unpredictable hack; it now behaves just like "git log" does when it
+   walks.
+   (merge c5941f1 tr/maint-show-walk later to maint).
+
+ * "git diff", "git status" and anything that internally uses the
+   comparison machinery was utterly broken when the difference
+   involved a file with "-" as its name.  This was due to the way "git
+   diff --no-index" was incorrectly bolted on to the system, making
+   any comparison that involves a file "-" at the root level
+   incorrectly read from the standard input.
+   (merge 4682d85 jc/refactor-diff-stdin later to maint).
+
+ * We did not have test to make sure "git rebase" without extra options
+   filters out an empty commit in the original history.
+   (merge 2b5ba7b mz/empty-rebase-test later to maint).
+
+ * "git fast-export" produced an input stream for fast-import without
+   properly quoting pathnames when they contain SPs in them.
+   (merge ff59f6d js/fast-export-paths-with-spaces later to maint).
+
+ * "git checkout --detach", when you are still on an unborn branch,
+   should be forbidden, but it wasn't.
+   (merge 8ced1aa cw/no-detaching-an-unborn later to maint).
+
+ * Some implementations of Perl terminates "lines" with CRLF even when
+   the script is operating on just a sequence of bytes.  Make sure to
+   use "$PERL_PATH", the version of Perl the user told Git to use, in
+   our tests to avoid unnecessary breakages in tests.
+   (merge ad78585 vr/use-our-perl-in-tests later to maint).