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diff --git a/Documentation/RelNotes/1.7.7.txt b/Documentation/RelNotes/1.7.7.txt
index 8d0404d6f..8de880f83 100644
--- a/Documentation/RelNotes/1.7.7.txt
+++ b/Documentation/RelNotes/1.7.7.txt
@@ -22,6 +22,15 @@ Updates since v1.7.6
  * "git archive" can be told to pass the output to gzip compression and
    produce "archive.tar.gz".
 
+ * "git bisect" can be used in a bare repository (provided if the test
+   you perform per each iteration does not need a working tree, of
+   course).
+
+ * "git check-attr" can take relative paths from the command line.
+
+ * "git check-attr" learned "--all" option to list the attributes for a
+   given path.
+
  * "git checkout" (both the code to update the files upon checking out a
    different branch, the code to checkout specific set of files) learned
    to stream the data from object store when possible, without having to
@@ -38,6 +47,10 @@ Updates since v1.7.6
  * "git diff --stat" learned --stat-count option to limit the output of
    diffstat report.
 
+ * "git diff" learned "--histogram" option, to use a different diff
+   generation machinery stolen from jgit, which might give better
+   performance.
+
  * "git fetch", "git push" and friends no longer show connection
    errors for addresses that couldn't be connected when at least one
    address succeeds (this is arguably a regression but a deliberate
@@ -58,6 +71,11 @@ Updates since v1.7.6
    submodule; it now goes on to update other submodules that can be
    updated, and reports the ones with errors at the end.
 
+ * "git upload-pack" and "git receive-pack" learned to pretend only a
+   subset of the refs exist in a repository. This may help a site to
+   put many tiny repositories into one repository (this would not be
+   useful for larger repositories as repacking would be problematic).
+
  * "git verify-pack" has been rewritten to use the "index-pack" machinery
    that is more efficient in reading objects in packfiles.
 
@@ -74,58 +92,25 @@ Fixes since v1.7.6
 Unless otherwise noted, all the fixes in 1.7.6.X maintenance track are
 included in this release.
 
- * "git checkout -b <branch>" sometimes wrote a bogus reflog entry,
-   causing later "git checkout -" fail.
-   (merge 71ee7fd jc/checkout-reflog-fix~1 later).
-
- * "git diff --cc" learned to correctly ignore binary files.
-   (merge 0508fe5 jk/combine-diff-binary-etc later)
-
- * "git fast-export" forgot to quote pathnames with unsafe characters
-   in its output.
-   (merge 6280dfd jk/fast-export-quote-path later)
-
- * "git fetch" did not recurse into submodules in subdirectories.
-   (merge ea2d325 jl/maint-fetch-recursive-fix later)
-
- * "git ls-tree" did not error out when asked to show a corrupt tree.
-   (merge 04f8925 js/ls-tree-error later)
-
- * "git pull" without any argument left an extra whitespace after the
-   command name in its reflog.
-   (merge c98d1e4 oa/pull-reflog later)
-
- * "git rebase -i -p" incorrectly dropped commits from side branches.
-   (merge 12bf828 aw/rebase-i-p later)
-
- * "git reset [<commit>] paths..." did not reset the index entry correctly
-   for unmerged paths.
-   (merge ff00b682 jc/maint-reset-unmerged-path later)
-
- * "git submodule add" did not allow a relative repository path when
-   the superproject did not have any default remote url.
-   (merge f22a17e8 jl/submodule-add-relurl-wo-upstream later)
-
- * "git submodule foreach" failed to correctly give the standard input to
-   the user-supplied command it invoked.
-   (merge 4dca1aa bc/submodule-foreach-stdin-fix-1.7.4 later)
+ * Error exits from $PAGER were silently ignored.
+   (merge fc1b56f cb/maint-exec-error-report later).
 
- * "git submodule update --quiet" was not really quiet.
-   (merge 7e60407 jl/submodule-update-quiet later)
+ * "git diff -c/--cc" mishandled a deletion that resolves a conflict, and
+   looked in the working tree instead.
+   (merge 9969454 jc/maint-combined-diff-work-tree later).
 
- * submodules that the user has never showed interest in by running
-   "git submodule init" was incorrectly marked as interesting by "git
-   submodule sync".
-   (merge 2cd9de3 jc/submodule-sync-no-auto-vivify later)
+ * "git fetch" over smart-http transport used to abort when the
+   repository was updated between the initial connection and the
+   subsequent object transfer.
+   (merge 051e400 jc/maint-smart-http-race-upload-pack later).
 
- * "git tag -l <glob>..." did not take multiple glob patterns from the
-   command line.
-   (merge 588d0e8 jk/tag-list-multiple-patterns later)
+ * "git push --quiet" was not really quiet.
+   (merge 0d086b8 cb/maint-quiet-push later).
 
 --
 exec >/var/tmp/1
 echo O=$(git describe master)
-O=v1.7.6-446-g0af53e1
+O=v1.7.6-548-g324b6b1
 git log --first-parent --oneline $O..master
 echo
 git shortlog --no-merges ^maint ^$O master