Sixth batch for 2.13

diff --git a/Documentation/RelNotes/1.7.4.txt b/Documentation/RelNotes/1.7.4.txt
index 48dd9640d3e0264224b92801f38b9dca00b004b6..d5bca731b589dde2b8a1edad2977e9376e0ec433 100644 (file)
--- a/Documentation/RelNotes/1.7.4.txt
+++ b/Documentation/RelNotes/1.7.4.txt
@@ -1,5 +1,5 @@
-Git v1.7.4 Release Notes (draft)
-================================
+Git v1.7.4 Release Notes
+========================
 
 Updates since v1.7.3
 --------------------
@@ -66,7 +66,7 @@ Updates since v1.7.3
    objects unnecessarily.
 
  * "git diff" and "git grep" learned what functions and subroutines
-   in Fortran look like.
+   in Fortran, Pascal and Perl look like.
 
  * "git fetch" learned the "--recurse-submodules" option.
 
@@ -91,6 +91,14 @@ Updates since v1.7.3
    directory in one branch while a new file is created in place of that
    directory in the other branch.
 
+ * "git merge" learned the "--abort" option, synonymous to
+   "git reset --merge" when a merge is in progress.
+
+ * "git notes" learned the "merge" subcommand to merge notes refs.
+   In addition to the default manual conflict resolution, there are
+   also several notes merge strategies for automatically resolving
+   notes merge conflicts.
+
  * "git rebase --autosquash" can use SHA-1 object names to name the
    commit which is to be fixed up (e.g. "fixup! e83c5163").
 
@@ -138,14 +146,11 @@ release, unless otherwise noted.
 
  * "git push --progress" shows progress indicators now.
 
+ * "git rebase -i" showed a confusing error message when given a
+   branch name that does not exist.
+
  * "git repack" places its temporary packs under $GIT_OBJECT_DIRECTORY/pack
    instead of $GIT_OBJECT_DIRECTORY/ to avoid cross directory renames.
 
  * "git submodule update --recursive --other-flags" passes flags down
    to its subinvocations.
-
----
-exec >/var/tmp/1
-O=v1.7.4-rc1
-echo O=$(git describe master)
-git shortlog --no-merges ^maint ^$O master