diff --git a/Documentation/RelNotes-1.7.2.txt b/Documentation/RelNotes-1.7.2.txt
index 37781b4f14..2dea6ffcf6 100644
--- a/Documentation/RelNotes-1.7.2.txt
+++ b/Documentation/RelNotes-1.7.2.txt
@@ -4,18 +4,6 @@ Git v1.7.2 Release Notes (draft)
 Updates since v1.7.1
 --------------------
 
- * After "git apply --whitespace=fix" removed trailing blank lines in an
-   patch in a patch series, it failed to apply later patches that depend
-   on the presense of such blank lines.
-
- * The output from the textconv filter used by "git diff" can be cached to
-   speed up their reuse.
-
- * "git send-email" learned --smtp-domain option to specify the domainname
-   used in the EHLO/HELO exchange.
-
- * "git revert" learned --strategy option to specify the merge strategy.
-
  * The whitespace rules used in "git apply --whitespace" and "git diff"
    gained a new member in the family (tab-in-indent) to help projects with
    policy to indent only with spaces.
@@ -24,17 +12,120 @@ Updates since v1.7.1
    request can first go to a URL without username, get a 401 response and
    then the client will ask for the username to use.
 
+ * When working from a subdirectory, by default, git does not look for its
+   metadirectory ".git" across filesystems, primarily to help people who
+   have invocations of git in their custom PS1 prompts, as being outside
+   of a git repository would look for ".git" all the way up to the root
+   directory, and NFS mounts are often slow.  DISCOVERY_ACROSS_FILESYSTEM
+   environment variable can be used to tell git not to stop at a
+   filesystem boundary.
+
+ * "git" wrapper learned "-c name=value" option to override configuration
+   variable from the command line.
+
+ * After "git apply --whitespace=fix" removed trailing blank lines in an
+   patch in a patch series, it failed to apply later patches that depend
+   on the presense of such blank lines.
+
+ * "git checkout --orphan newbranch" is similar to "-b newbranch" but
+   prepares to create a root commit that is not connected to any existing
+   commit.
+
+ * "git commit --amend" on a commit with an invalid author-name line that
+   lacks the display name didn't work (fb7749e4).
+
+ * "git cvsserver" can be told to use pserver; its password file can be
+   stored outside the repository.
+
+ * "git describe" tie-breaks tags that point at the same commit better by
+   paying attention to the tagger date (newer ones are preferred).
+
+ * The output from the textconv filter used by "git diff" can be cached to
+   speed up their reuse.
+
+ * "git diff --color" did not paint extended diff headers per line
+   (i.e. the coloring escape sequence didn't end at the end of line),
+   which confused "less -R".
+
+ * "git diff --word-diff=<mode>" extends the existing "--color-words"
+   option, making it more useful in color-challenged environments.
+
+ * The regexp to detect function headers used by "git diff" for PHP has
+   been enhanced for visibility modifiers (public, protected, etc.) to
+   better support PHP5.
+
+ * "git fetch" over HTTP verifies the downloaded packfiles more robustly.
+
+ * "git for-each-ref" learned "%(objectname:short)" that gives the object
+   name abbreviated.
+
+ * Various options to "git grep" (e.g. --count, --name-only) work better
+   with binary files.
+
+ * The memory usage by "git index-pack" (run during "git fetch" and "git
+   push") got leaner.
+
+ * "git log --follow <path>" follows across copies (it used to only follow
+   renames).  This may make the processing more expensive.
+
+ * "git notes prune" learned "-n" (dry-run) and "-v" options, similar to
+   what "git prune" has.
+
+ * "git patch-id" can be fed a mbox without getting confused by the
+   signature line in the format-patch output.
+
+ * "git revert" learned --strategy option to specify the merge strategy.
+
+ * "git send-email" learned --smtp-domain option to specify the domainname
+   used in the EHLO/HELO exchange.
+
+ * "git status [-s] --ignored" can be used to list ignored paths.
+
+ * Various "gitweb" enhancements and clean-ups, including syntax
+   highlighting.
+
 
 Fixes since v1.7.1
 ------------------
 
- * In 1.7.1, "git status" stopped refreshing the index by mistake.
-
 All of the fixes in v1.7.1.X maintenance series are included in this
 release, unless otherwise noted.
 
+ * We didn't recognize timezone "Z" as a synonym for "UTC" (75b37e70).
+
+ * In 1.7.1, "git status" stopped refreshing the index by mistake
+   (e251a7b3^2).
+
+ * We used to mistakenly think "../work" is a subdirectory of the current
+   directory when we are in "../work-xyz" (490544b).
+
+ * "git checkout" and "git rebase" overwrote paths that are marked "assume
+   unchanged" (aecda37c).
+
+ * "git clone/fetch/pull" issued an incorrect error message when a ref and
+   a symref that points to the ref were updated at the same time.  This
+   obviously would update them to the same value, and should not result in
+   an error condition (da3efdb).
+
+ * "git clone" did not configure remote.origin.url correctly for bare
+   clones (df61c889).
+
+ * "git diff" used to tell underlying xdiff machinery to work very hard to
+   minimize the output, but this often was spending too many extra cycles
+   for very little gain (582aa00).
+
+ * "git pull" accepted "--dry-run", gave it to underlying "git fetch" but
+   ignored the option itself, resulting in a bogus attempt to merge
+   unrelated commit (29609e68).
+
+ * "git reset --hard" started from a wrong directory and a working tree in
+   a nonstandard location is in use got confused (560fb6a1).
+
+ * "git stash" incorrectly lost paths in the working tree that were
+   previously removed from the index (7aa5d43).
+
 --
 exec >/var/tmp/1
-O=v1.7.1-77-gb751157
+O=v1.7.1-336-g0925c02
 echo O=$(git describe master)
 git shortlog --no-merges master ^maint ^$O
diff --git a/git-svn.perl b/git-svn.perl
index 09c4ca56f0..19d6848d0e 100755
--- a/git-svn.perl
+++ b/git-svn.perl
@@ -963,6 +963,7 @@ sub cmd_multi_init {
 	}
 	do_git_init_db();
 	if (defined $_trunk) {
+		$_trunk =~ s#^/+##;
 		my $trunk_ref = 'refs/remotes/' . $_prefix . 'trunk';
 		# try both old-style and new-style lookups:
 		my $gs_trunk = eval { Git::SVN->new($trunk_ref) };
@@ -2054,6 +2055,9 @@ sub new {
 		         "\":$ref_id\$\" in config\n";
 		($self->{path}, undef) = split(/\s*:\s*/, $fetch);
 	}
+	$self->{path} =~ s{/+}{/}g;
+	$self->{path} =~ s{\A/}{};
+	$self->{path} =~ s{/\z}{};
 	$self->{url} = command_oneline('config', '--get',
 	                               "svn-remote.$repo_id.url") or
                   die "Failed to read \"svn-remote.$repo_id.url\" in config\n";