diff --git a/Documentation/RelNotes-1.5.0.1.txt b/Documentation/RelNotes-1.5.0.1.txt
index 5dff2a212d9..fea3f9935b7 100644
--- a/Documentation/RelNotes-1.5.0.1.txt
+++ b/Documentation/RelNotes-1.5.0.1.txt
@@ -15,8 +15,16 @@ Fixes since v1.5.0
   - Converted remaining mentions of update-index on Porcelain
     documents to git-add/git-rm.
 
+  - Some i18n.* configuration variables were incorrectly
+    described as core.*; fixed.
+
 * Bugfixes
 
+  - git-add and git-update-index on a filesystem on which
+    executable bits are unreliable incorrectly reused st_mode
+    bits even when the path changed between symlink and regular
+    file.
+
   - git-daemon marks the listening sockets with FD_CLOEXEC so
     that it won't be leaked into the children.
 
@@ -24,14 +32,11 @@ Fixes since v1.5.0
     parameter was missing was fixed; usage() message is given
     instead.
 
+  - git-rev-list did not read $GIT_DIR/config file, which means
+    that did not honor i18n.logoutputencoding correctly.
+
 * Tweaks
 
   - sliding mmap() inefficiently mmaped the same region of a
     packfile with an access pattern that used objects in the
     reverse order.  This has been made more efficient.
-
---
-exec >/var/tmp/1
-O=v1.5.0-24-g460ca30
-echo O=`git describe maint`
-git shortlog --no-merges $O..maint
diff --git a/Documentation/i18n.txt b/Documentation/i18n.txt
index b4cbb3830e8..b95f99be6c3 100644
--- a/Documentation/i18n.txt
+++ b/Documentation/i18n.txt
@@ -25,15 +25,15 @@ mind.
   an warning if the commit log message given to it does not look
   like a valid UTF-8 string, unless you explicitly say your
   project uses a legacy encoding.  The way to say this is to
-  have core.commitencoding in `.git/config` file, like this:
+  have i18n.commitencoding in `.git/config` file, like this:
 +
 ------------
-[core]
+[i18n]
 	commitencoding = ISO-8859-1
 ------------
 +
 Commit objects created with the above setting record the value
-of `core.commitencoding` in its `encoding` header.  This is to
+of `i18n.commitencoding` in its `encoding` header.  This is to
 help other people who look at them later.  Lack of this header
 implies that the commit log message is encoded in UTF-8.
 
@@ -41,15 +41,15 @@ implies that the commit log message is encoded in UTF-8.
   header of a commit object, and tries to re-code the log
   message into UTF-8 unless otherwise specified.  You can
   specify the desired output encoding with
-  `core.logoutputencoding` in `.git/config` file, like this:
+  `i18n.logoutputencoding` in `.git/config` file, like this:
 +
 ------------
-[core]
+[i18n]
 	logoutputencoding = ISO-8859-1
 ------------
 +
 If you do not have this configuration variable, the value of
-`core.commitencoding` is used instead.
+`i18n.commitencoding` is used instead.
 
 Note that we deliberately chose not to re-code the commit log
 message when a commit is made to force UTF-8 at the commit
diff --git a/builtin-rev-list.c b/builtin-rev-list.c
index 1bb3a066801..c2db5a5b037 100644
--- a/builtin-rev-list.c
+++ b/builtin-rev-list.c
@@ -226,6 +226,7 @@ int cmd_rev_list(int argc, const char **argv, const char *prefix)
 	int i;
 	int read_from_stdin = 0;
 
+	git_config(git_default_config);
 	init_revisions(&revs, prefix);
 	revs.abbrev = 0;
 	revs.commit_format = CMIT_FMT_UNSPECIFIED;