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diff --git a/Documentation/RelNotes-1.6.0.txt b/Documentation/RelNotes-1.6.0.txt
index 2542cf53d..de7ef166b 100644
--- a/Documentation/RelNotes-1.6.0.txt
+++ b/Documentation/RelNotes-1.6.0.txt
@@ -5,7 +5,7 @@ User visible changes
 --------------------
 
 With the default Makefile settings, most of the programs are now
-installed outside your $PATH, except for "git", "gitk", "git-gui" and
+installed outside your $PATH, except for "git", "gitk" and
 some server side programs that need to be accessible for technical
 reasons.  Invoking a git subcommand as "git-xyzzy" from the command
 line has been deprecated since early 2006 (and officially announced in
@@ -28,6 +28,16 @@ introduced in v1.5.2 and v1.4.4.5.  If you want to keep your repositories
 backwards compatible past these versions, set repack.useDeltaBaseOffset
 to false or pack.indexVersion to 1, respectively.
 
+We used to prevent sample hook scripts shipped in templates/ from
+triggering by default by relying on the fact that we install them as
+unexecutable, but on some filesystems, this approach does not work.
+They are now shipped with ".sample" suffix.  If you want to activate
+any of these samples as-is, rename them to drop the ".sample" suffix,
+instead of running "chmod +x" on them.  For example, you can rename
+hooks/post-update.sample to hooks/post-update to enable the sample
+hook that runs update-server-info, in order to make repositories
+friendly to dumb protocols (i.e. HTTP).
+
 GIT_CONFIG, which was only documented as affecting "git config", but
 actually affected all git commands, now only affects "git config".
 GIT_LOCAL_CONFIG, also only documented as affecting "git config" and
@@ -56,11 +66,7 @@ Updates since v1.5.6
   gangs.
 
 * Sample hook scripts shipped in templates/ are now suffixed with
-  *.sample.  We used to prevent them from triggering by default by
-  relying on the fact that we install them as unexecutable, but on
-  some filesystems this approach does not work.  Instead of running
-  "chmod +x" on them, the users who want to activate these samples
-  as-is can now rename them dropping *.sample suffix.
+  *.sample.
 
 * perl's in-place edit (-i) does not work well without backup files on Windows;
   some tests are rewritten to cope with this.
@@ -142,6 +148,10 @@ Updates since v1.5.6
 * git-archive uses the zlib default compression level when creating
   zip archive.
 
+* git-archive's command line options --exec and --remote can take their
+  parameters as separate command line arguments, similar to other commands.
+  IOW, both "--exec=path" and "--exec path" are now supported.
+
 * With -v option, git-branch describes the remote tracking statistics
   similar to the way git-checkout reports by how many commits your branch
   is ahead/behind.
@@ -161,10 +171,16 @@ Updates since v1.5.6
 * git-clone can clone from a remote whose URL would be rewritten by
   configuration stored in $HOME/.gitconfig now.
 
+* "git-clone --mirror" is a handy way to set up a bare mirror repository.
+
 * git-cvsserver learned to respond to "cvs co -c".
 
 * git-diff --check now checks leftover merge conflict markers.
 
+* "git-diff -p" learned to grab a better hunk header lines in
+  BibTex, Pascal/Delphi, and Ruby files and also pays attention to
+  chapter and part boundary in TeX documents.
+
 * When remote side used to have branch 'foo' and git-fetch finds that now
   it has branch 'foo/bar', it refuses to lose the existing remote tracking
   branch and its reflog.  The error message has been improved to suggest
@@ -176,6 +192,10 @@ Updates since v1.5.6
 
 * fast-import and fast-export learned to export and import gitlinks.
 
+* "gitk" left background process behind after being asked to dig very deep
+  history and the user killed the UI; the process is killed when the UI goes
+  away now.
+
 * git-rebase records the original tip of branch in ORIG_HEAD before it is
   rewound.
 
@@ -187,7 +207,7 @@ Updates since v1.5.6
   command internally uses rev-parse to interpret its arguments.
 
 * git-rev-list learned --children option to show child commits it
-  encountered during the traversal, instead of shoing parent commits.
+  encountered during the traversal, instead of showing parent commits.
 
 * git-send-mail can talk not just over SSL but over TLS now.
 
@@ -225,15 +245,14 @@ Fixes since v1.5.6
 All of the fixes in v1.5.6 maintenance series are included in
 this release, unless otherwise noted.
 
-* git-clone ignored its -u option; the fix needs to be backported to
-  'maint';
+ * git-clone ignored its -u option; the fix needs to be backported to
+   'maint';
+
+ * git-mv used to lose the distinction between changes that are staged
+   and that are only in the working tree, by staging both in the index
+   after moving such a path.
 
-* git-mv used to lose the distinction between changes that are staged
-  and that are only in the working tree, by staging both in the index
-  after moving such a path.
+ * "git-rebase -i -p" rewrote the parents to wrong ones when amending
+   (either edit or squash) was involved, and did not work correctly
+   when fast forwarding.
 
----
-exec >/var/tmp/1
-O=v1.6.0-rc0-104-g81dc230
-echo O=$(git describe refs/heads/master)
-git shortlog --no-merges $O..refs/heads/master ^refs/heads/maint