3 files changed, 49 insertions, 4 deletions
diff --git a/Documentation/RelNotes/1.8.1.6.txt b/Documentation/RelNotes/1.8.1.6.txt
index d9de639080..c15cf2e805 100644
--- a/Documentation/RelNotes/1.8.1.6.txt
+++ b/Documentation/RelNotes/1.8.1.6.txt
@@ -4,6 +4,11 @@ Git 1.8.1.6 Release Notes
 Fixes since v1.8.1.5
 --------------------
 
+ * An earlier change to the attribute system introduced at v1.8.1.2 by
+   mistake stopped a pattern "dir" (without trailing slash) from
+   matching a directory "dir" (it only wanted to allow pattern "dir/"
+   to also match).
+
  * The code to keep track of what directory names are known to Git on
    platforms with case insensitive filesystems can get confused upon a
    hash collision between these pathnames and looped forever.
diff --git a/Documentation/RelNotes/1.8.2.1.txt b/Documentation/RelNotes/1.8.2.1.txt
index 1ded500fc3..1354ad03f5 100644
--- a/Documentation/RelNotes/1.8.2.1.txt
+++ b/Documentation/RelNotes/1.8.2.1.txt
@@ -4,6 +4,11 @@ Git v1.8.2.1 Release Notes
 Fixes since v1.8.2
 ------------------
 
+ * An earlier change to the attribute system introduced at v1.8.1.2 by
+   mistake stopped a pattern "dir" (without trailing slash) from
+   matching a directory "dir" (it only wanted to allow pattern "dir/"
+   to also match).
+
  * Verification of signed tags were not done correctly when not in C
    or en/US locale.
 
diff --git a/Documentation/RelNotes/1.8.3.txt b/Documentation/RelNotes/1.8.3.txt
index a05c70fe1d..bcbcf15696 100644
--- a/Documentation/RelNotes/1.8.3.txt
+++ b/Documentation/RelNotes/1.8.3.txt
@@ -32,8 +32,23 @@ Updates since v1.8.2
 
 UI, Workflows & Features
 
+ * "git help" learned "-g" option to show the list of guides just like
+   list of commands are given with "-a".
+
+ * A triangular "pull from one place, push to another place" workflow
+   is supported better by new remote.pushdefault (overrides the
+   "origin" thing) and branch.*.pushremote (overrides the
+   branch.*.remote) configuration variables.
+
+ * "git status" learned to report that you are in the middle of a
+   revert session, just like it does for a cherry-pick and a bisect
+   session.
+
+ * The handling by "git branch --set-upstream-to" against various forms
+   of erroneous inputs was suboptimal and has been improved.
+
  * When the interactive access to git-shell is not enabled, it issues
-   a message meant to help the system admininstrator to enable it.
+   a message meant to help the system administrator to enable it.
    An explicit way to help the end users who connect to the service by
    issuing custom messages to refuse such an access has been added.
 
@@ -101,6 +116,13 @@ Performance, Internal Implementation, etc.
 
  * Updates for building under msvc.
 
+ * The logic to coalesce the same lines removed from the parents in
+   the output from "diff -c/--cc" has been updated, but with an O(n^2)
+   complexity, so this might turn out to be undesirable.
+
+ * The code to enforce permission bits on files in $GIT_DIR/ for
+   shared repositories have been simplified.
+
  * A few codepaths knew how much data they need to put in the
    hashtables they use upfront, but still started from a small table
    repeatedly growing and rehashing.
@@ -124,6 +146,9 @@ Performance, Internal Implementation, etc.
    which have been consolidated.  Also a bug in "git checkout dir/"
    that is started from an unmerged index has been fixed.
 
+ * A few bugfixes to "git rerere" working on corner case merge
+   conflicts have been applied.
+
 
 Also contains minor documentation updates and code clean-ups.
 
@@ -135,6 +160,16 @@ Unless otherwise noted, all the fixes since v1.8.2 in the maintenance
 track are contained in this release (see release notes to them for
 details).
 
+ * "git log -S/-G" started paying attention to textconv filter, but
+   there was no way to disable this.  Make it honor --no-textconv
+   option.
+   (merge 61690bf sr/log-SG-no-textconv later to maint).
+
+ * When used with "-d temporary-directory" option, "git filter-branch"
+   failed to come back to the original working tree to perform the
+   final clean-up procedure.
+   (merge 9727601 jk/filter-branch-come-back-to-original later to maint).
+
  * "git merge $(git rev-parse v1.8.2)" behaved quite differently from
    "git merge v1.8.2", as if v1.8.2 were written as v1.8.2^0 and did
    not pay much attention to the annotated tag payload.  Make the code
@@ -159,8 +194,8 @@ details).
    "--option=value" form.
    (merge 862ae6c rs/submodule-summary-limit later to maint).
 
- * "index-pack --fix-thin" used uninitialize value to compute delta
-   depths of objects it appends to the resulting pack.
+ * "index-pack --fix-thin" used an uninitialized value to compute
+   delta depths of objects it appends to the resulting pack.
    (merge 57165db jk/index-pack-correct-depth-fix later to maint).
 
  * "index-pack --verify-stat" used a few counters outside protection
@@ -274,4 +309,4 @@ details).
    alphabetical order.
 
  * "git submodule update", when recursed into sub-submodules, did not
-   acccumulate the prefix paths.
+   accumulate the prefix paths.