diff --git a/Documentation/RelNotes-1.5.2.2.txt b/Documentation/RelNotes-1.5.2.2.txt
index f6393f8a94..7bfa341750 100644
--- a/Documentation/RelNotes-1.5.2.2.txt
+++ b/Documentation/RelNotes-1.5.2.2.txt
@@ -45,7 +45,7 @@ Fixes since v1.5.2.1
     correctly when the branch name had slash in it.
 
   - The email address of the user specified with user.email
-    configuration was overriden by EMAIL environment variable.
+    configuration was overridden by EMAIL environment variable.
 
   - The tree parser did not warn about tree entries with
     nonsense file modes, and assumed they must be blobs.
diff --git a/Documentation/RelNotes-1.6.0.2.txt b/Documentation/RelNotes-1.6.0.2.txt
index 7a9646fc4f..51b32f5d94 100644
--- a/Documentation/RelNotes-1.6.0.2.txt
+++ b/Documentation/RelNotes-1.6.0.2.txt
@@ -7,7 +7,7 @@ Fixes since v1.6.0.1
 * Installation on platforms that needs .exe suffix to git-* programs were
   broken in 1.6.0.1.
 
-* Installation on filesystems without symbolic links support did nto
+* Installation on filesystems without symbolic links support did not
   work well.
 
 * In-tree documentations and test scripts now use "git foo" form to set a
diff --git a/Documentation/RelNotes-1.6.1.1.txt b/Documentation/RelNotes-1.6.1.1.txt
index 88454c1973..8c594ba02f 100644
--- a/Documentation/RelNotes-1.6.1.1.txt
+++ b/Documentation/RelNotes-1.6.1.1.txt
@@ -41,11 +41,11 @@ Fixes since v1.6.1
   work tree upon delete/modify conflict.
 
 * "git merge -s recursive" didn't leave the index unmerged for entries with
-  rename/delete conflictd.
+  rename/delete conflicts.
 
 * "git merge -s recursive" clobbered untracked files in the work tree.
 
-* "git mv -k" with more than one errorneous paths misbehaved.
+* "git mv -k" with more than one erroneous paths misbehaved.
 
 * "git read-tree -m -u" hence branch switching incorrectly lost a
   subdirectory in rare cases.
diff --git a/Documentation/RelNotes-1.6.1.2.txt b/Documentation/RelNotes-1.6.1.2.txt
index 230aa3d8e8..be37cbb858 100644
--- a/Documentation/RelNotes-1.6.1.2.txt
+++ b/Documentation/RelNotes-1.6.1.2.txt
@@ -4,8 +4,8 @@ GIT v1.6.1.2 Release Notes
 Fixes since v1.6.1.1
 --------------------
 
-* The logic for rename detectin in internal diff used by commands like
-  "git diff" and "git blame" have been optimized to avoid loading the same
+* The logic for rename detection in internal diff used by commands like
+  "git diff" and "git blame" has been optimized to avoid loading the same
   blob repeatedly.
 
 * We did not allow writing out a blob that is larger than 2GB for no good