1 files changed, 101 insertions, 2 deletions
diff --git a/Documentation/RelNotes/2.13.0.txt b/Documentation/RelNotes/2.13.0.txt
index 3c92403c6..b757fd119 100644
--- a/Documentation/RelNotes/2.13.0.txt
+++ b/Documentation/RelNotes/2.13.0.txt
@@ -176,6 +176,16 @@ UI, Workflows & Features
  * The default behaviour of "git log" in an interactive session has
    been changed to enable "--decorate".
 
+ * The output from "git status --short" has been extended to show
+   various kinds of dirtyness in submodules differently; instead of to
+   "M" for modified, 'm' and '?' can be shown to signal changes only
+   to the working tree of the submodule but not the commit that is
+   checked out.
+
+ * Allow the http.postbuffer configuration variable to be set to a
+   size that can be expressed in size_t, which can be larger than
+   ulong on some platforms.
+
 
 Performance, Internal Implementation, Development Support etc.
 
@@ -236,8 +246,6 @@ Performance, Internal Implementation, Development Support etc.
    older one and the newer one interoperate happily has now become
    possible.
 
- * "uchar [40]" to "struct object_id" conversion continues.
-
  * "git tag --contains" used to (ab)use the object bits to keep track
    of the state of object reachability without clearing them after
    use; this has been cleaned up and made to use the newer commit-slab
@@ -272,6 +280,28 @@ Performance, Internal Implementation, Development Support etc.
  * Define a new task in .travis.yml that triggers a test session on
    Windows run elsewhere.
 
+ * Conversion from uchar[20] to struct object_id continues.
+
+ * The "submodule" specific field in the ref_store structure is
+   replaced with a more generic "gitdir" that can later be used also
+   when dealing with ref_store that represents the set of refs visible
+   from the other worktrees.
+
+ * The string-list API used a custom reallocation strategy that was
+   very inefficient, instead of using the usual ALLOC_GROW() macro,
+   which has been fixed.
+   (merge 950a234cbd jh/string-list-micro-optim later to maint).
+
+ * In a 2- and 3-way merge of trees, more than one source trees often
+   end up sharing an identical subtree; optimize by not reading the
+   same tree multiple times in such a case.
+   (merge d12a8cf0af jh/unpack-trees-micro-optim later to maint).
+
+ * The index file has a trailing SHA-1 checksum to detect file
+   corruption, and historically we checked it every time the index
+   file is used.  Omit the validation during normal use, and instead
+   verify only in "git fsck".
+
 Also contains various documentation updates and code clean-ups.
 
 
@@ -449,6 +479,62 @@ notes for details).
    certificate; this has been fixed.
    (merge f2214dede9 bc/push-cert-receive-fix later to maint).
 
+ * Update error handling for codepath that deals with corrupt loose
+   objects.
+   (merge 51054177b3 jk/loose-object-info-report-error later to maint).
+
+ * "git diff --submodule=diff" learned to work better in a project
+   with a submodule that in turn has its own submodules.
+   (merge 17b254cda6 sb/show-diff-for-submodule-in-diff-fix later to maint).
+
+ * Update the build dependency so that an update to /usr/bin/perl
+   etc. result in recomputation of perl.mak file.
+   (merge c59c4939c2 ab/regen-perl-mak-with-different-perl later to maint).
+
+ * "git push --recurse-submodules --push-option=<string>" learned to
+   propagate the push option recursively down to pushes in submodules.
+
+ * If a patch e-mail had its first paragraph after an in-body header
+   indented (even after a blank line after the in-body header line),
+   the indented line was mistook as a continuation of the in-body
+   header.  This has been fixed.
+   (merge fd1062e52e lt/mailinfo-in-body-header-continuation later to maint).
+
+ * Clean up fallouts from recent tightening of the set-up sequence,
+   where Git barfs when repository information is accessed without
+   first ensuring that it was started in a repository.
+   (merge bccb22cbb1 jk/no-looking-at-dotgit-outside-repo later to maint).
+
+ * "git p4" used "name-rev HEAD" when it wants to learn what branch is
+   checked out; it should use "symbolic-ref HEAD".
+   (merge eff451101d ld/p4-current-branch-fix later to maint).
+
+ * "http.proxy" set to an empty string is used to disable the usage of
+   proxy.  We broke this early last year.
+   (merge ae51d91105 sr/http-proxy-configuration-fix later to maint).
+
+ * $GIT_DIR may in some cases be normalized with all symlinks resolved
+   while "gitdir" path expansion in the pattern does not receive the
+   same treatment, leading to incorrect mismatch.  This has been fixed.
+
+ * "git submodule" script does not work well with strange pathnames.
+   Protect it from a path with slashes in them, at least.
+
+ * "git fetch-pack" was not prepared to accept ERR packet that the
+   upload-pack can send with a human-readable error message.  It
+   showed the packet contents with ERR prefix, so there was no data
+   loss, but it was redundant to say "ERR" in an error message.
+   (merge 8e2c7bef03 jt/fetch-pack-error-reporting later to maint).
+
+ * "ls-files --recurse-submodules" did not quite work well in a
+   project with nested submodules.
+
+ * gethostname(2) may not NUL terminate the buffer if hostname does
+   not fit; unfortunately there is no easy way to see if our buffer
+   was too small, but at least this will make sure we will not end up
+   using garbage past the end of the buffer.
+   (merge 5781a9a270 dt/xgethostname-nul-termination later to maint).
+
  * Other minor doc, test and build updates and code cleanups.
    (merge df2a6e38b7 jk/pager-in-use later to maint).
    (merge 75ec4a6cb0 ab/branch-list-doc later to maint).
@@ -458,3 +544,16 @@ notes for details).
    (merge 48a96972fd ab/doc-submitting later to maint).
    (merge f5c2bc2b96 jk/make-coccicheck-detect-errors later to maint).
    (merge c105f563d1 cc/untracked later to maint).
+   (merge 8668976b53 jc/unused-symbols later to maint).
+   (merge fba275dc93 jc/bs-t-is-not-a-tab-for-sed later to maint).
+   (merge be6ed145de mm/ls-files-s-doc later to maint).
+   (merge 60b091c679 qp/bisect-docfix later to maint).
+   (merge 47242cd103 ah/diff-files-ours-theirs-doc later to maint).
+   (merge 35ad44cbd8 sb/submodule-rm-absorb later to maint).
+   (merge 0301f1fd92 va/i18n-perl-scripts later to maint).
+   (merge 733e064d98 vn/revision-shorthand-for-side-branch-log later to maint).
+   (merge 85999743e7 tb/doc-eol-normalization later to maint).
+   (merge 0747fb49fd jk/loose-object-fsck later to maint).
+   (merge d8f4481c4f jk/quarantine-received-objects later to maint).
+   (merge 7ba1ceef95 xy/format-patch-base later to maint).
+   (merge fa1912c89a rs/misc-cppcheck-fixes later to maint).