diff --git a/Documentation/RelNotes/1.9.3.txt b/Documentation/RelNotes/1.9.3.txt
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@@ -0,0 +1,21 @@
+Git v1.9.3 Release Notes
+========================
+
+Fixes since v1.9.2
+------------------
+
+ * "git p4" dealing with changes in binary files were broken by a
+   change in 1.9 release.
+
+ * The shell prompt script (in contrib/), when using the PROMPT_COMMAND
+   interface, used an unsafe construct when showing the branch name in
+   $PS1.
+
+ * "git rebase" used a POSIX shell construct FreeBSD /bin/sh does not
+   work well with.
+
+ * Some more Unicode codepoints defined in Unicode 6.3 as having
+   zero width have been taught to our display column counting logic.
+
+ * Some tests used shell constructs that did not work well on
+   FreeBSD.
diff --git a/Documentation/git-shell.txt b/Documentation/git-shell.txt
index c35051ba58b63cdc489b0ee3f4ffb72631b619e3..e4bdd2235ca4ea9b853e1b568203411da1cc3b84 100644
--- a/Documentation/git-shell.txt
+++ b/Documentation/git-shell.txt
@@ -66,7 +66,7 @@ EXAMPLE
 -------
 
 To disable interactive logins, displaying a greeting instead:
-+
+
 ----------------
 $ chsh -s /usr/bin/git-shell
 $ mkdir $HOME/git-shell-commands