5 files changed, 64 insertions, 24 deletions
diff --git a/Documentation/RelNotes/1.7.10.txt b/Documentation/RelNotes/1.7.10.txt
index e255901356..be3001afe2 100644
--- a/Documentation/RelNotes/1.7.10.txt
+++ b/Documentation/RelNotes/1.7.10.txt
@@ -8,6 +8,8 @@ UI, Workflows & Features
 
  * Improved handling of views, labels and branches in git-p4 (in contrib).
 
+ * Updated command line arguments completion script for zsh (in contrib).
+
  * "vcs-svn"/"svn-fe" learned to read dumps with svn-deltas and
    support incremental imports.
 
@@ -20,6 +22,11 @@ UI, Workflows & Features
  * "git clone" learned to detach the HEAD in the resulting repository
    when the source repository's HEAD does not point to a branch.
 
+ * The commands in the "git diff" family and "git apply --stat" that
+   count the number of files changed and the number of lines
+   inserted/deleted have been updated to match the output from
+   "diffstat".  This also opens the door to i18n this line.
+
  * When showing a patch while ignoring whitespace changes, the context
    lines are taken from the postimage, in order to make it easier to
    view the output.
@@ -62,30 +69,35 @@ Unless otherwise noted, all the fixes since v1.7.9 in the maintenance
 releases are contained in this release (see release notes to them for
 details).
 
- * "add -e" learned not to show a diff for an otherwise unmodified
-   submodule that only has uncommitted local changes in the patch
-   prepared by for the user to edit.
-   (merge 701825d js/add-e-submodule-fix later to maint).
+ * The error message emitted when we see an empty loose object was
+   not phrased correctly.
+   (merge 33e42de mm/empty-loose-error-message later to maint).
+
+ * "git commit" refused to create a commit when entries added with
+   "add -N" remained in the index, without telling Git what their content
+   in the next commit should be. We should have created the commit without
+   these paths.
+   (merge 3f6d56d jc/maint-commit-ignore-i-t-a later to maint).
 
- * "rebase" and "commit --amend" failed to work on commits with ancient
-   timestamps near year 1970.
-   (merge 2c733fb jc/parse-date-raw later to maint).
+ * Search box in "gitweb" did not accept non-ASCII characters correctly.
+   (merge 84d9e2d jn/gitweb-search-utf-8 later to maint).
 
- * "git merge --ff-only $tag" failed because it cannot record the
-   required mergetag without creating a merge, but this is so common
-   operation for branch that is used _only_ to follow the upstream, so
-   it is allowed to fast-forward without recording the mergetag.
-   (merge b5c9f1c jc/merge-ff-only-stronger-than-signed-merge later to maint).
+ * The code to ask for password did not fall back to the terminal
+   input when GIT_ASKPASS is set but does not work (e.g. lack of X
+   with GUI askpass helper).
+   (merge 84d7273 jk/prompt-fallback-to-tty later to maint).
 
- * Typo in "git branch --edit-description my-tpoic" was not diagnosed.
-   (merge c2d17ba jc/branch-desc-typoavoidance later to maint).
+ * map_user() was not rewriting its output correctly, which resulted
+   in the user visible symptom that "git blame -e" sometimes showed
+   excess '>' at the end of email addresses.
+   (merge f026358 jc/maint-mailmap-output later to maint).
 
- * rpmbuild noticed an unpackaged but installed *.mo file and failed.
-   (merge 3a9f58c jn/rpm-spec later to maint).
+ * "checkout -b" did not allow switching out of an unborn branch.
+   (merge abe1998 jc/checkout-out-of-unborn later to maint).
 
 ---
 exec >/var/tmp/1
-O=v1.7.9-208-gee8d52f
+O=v1.7.9-249-gaa47ec9
 echo O=$(git describe)
 git log --first-parent --oneline ^maint $O..
 echo
diff --git a/Documentation/RelNotes/1.7.9.1.txt b/Documentation/RelNotes/1.7.9.1.txt
index a6c15e5d52..6957183dbb 100644
--- a/Documentation/RelNotes/1.7.9.1.txt
+++ b/Documentation/RelNotes/1.7.9.1.txt
@@ -4,9 +4,24 @@ Git v1.7.9.1 Release Notes
 Fixes since v1.7.9
 ------------------
 
+ * The makefile allowed environment variable X seep into it result in
+   command names suffixed with unnecessary strings.
+
+ * The set of included header files in compat/inet-{ntop,pton}
+   wrappers was updated for Windows some time ago, but in a way that
+   broke Solaris build.
+
+ * rpmbuild noticed an unpackaged but installed *.mo file and failed.
+
  * Subprocesses spawned from various git programs were often left running
    to completion even when the top-level process was killed.
 
+ * "git add -e" learned not to show a diff for an otherwise unmodified
+   submodule that only has uncommitted local changes in the patch
+   prepared by for the user to edit.
+
+ * Typo in "git branch --edit-description my-tpoic" was not diagnosed.
+
  * Using "git grep -l/-L" together with options -W or --break may not
    make much sense as the output is to only count the number of hits
    and there is no place for file breaks, but the latter options made
@@ -16,15 +31,25 @@ Fixes since v1.7.9
    chain and veered into side branch from which the whole change to the
    specified paths came.
 
- * "git push -q" was not sufficiently quiet.
+ * "git merge --no-edit $tag" failed to honor the --no-edit option.
 
- * When "git push" fails to update any refs, the client side did not
-   report an error correctly to the end user.
+ * "git merge --ff-only $tag" failed because it cannot record the
+   required mergetag without creating a merge, but this is so common
+   operation for branch that is used _only_ to follow the upstream, so
+   it was changed to allow fast-forwarding without recording the mergetag.
 
  * "git mergetool" now gives an empty file as the common base version
    to the backend when dealing with the "both sides added, differently"
    case.
 
+ * "git push -q" was not sufficiently quiet.
+
+ * When "git push" fails to update any refs, the client side did not
+   report an error correctly to the end user.
+
+ * "rebase" and "commit --amend" failed to work on commits with ancient
+   timestamps near year 1970.
+
  * When asking for a tag to be pulled, "request-pull" did not show the
    name of the tag prefixed with "tags/", which would have helped older
    clients.
@@ -33,4 +58,6 @@ Fixes since v1.7.9
    in .gitmodules when the submodule at $path was once added to the
    superproject and already initialized.
 
+ * Many small corner case bugs on "git tag -n" was corrected.
+
 Also contains minor fixes and documentation updates.
diff --git a/Documentation/git.txt b/Documentation/git.txt
index f7e201fae3..a12d15fb98 100644
--- a/Documentation/git.txt
+++ b/Documentation/git.txt
@@ -44,9 +44,10 @@ unreleased) version of git, that is available from 'master'
 branch of the `git.git` repository.
 Documentation for older releases are available here:
 
-* link:v1.7.9/git.html[documentation for release 1.7.9]
+* link:v1.7.9.1/git.html[documentation for release 1.7.9.1]
 
 * release notes for
+  link:RelNotes/1.7.9.1.txt[1.7.9.1],
   link:RelNotes/1.7.9.txt[1.7.9].
 
 * link:v1.7.8.4/git.html[documentation for release 1.7.8.4]
diff --git a/Documentation/gitcore-tutorial.txt b/Documentation/gitcore-tutorial.txt
index c27d086f68..fb0d5692a4 100644
--- a/Documentation/gitcore-tutorial.txt
+++ b/Documentation/gitcore-tutorial.txt
@@ -1004,7 +1004,7 @@ Updating from ae3a2da... to a80b4aa....
 Fast-forward (no commit created; -m option ignored)
  example |    1 +
  hello   |    1 +
- 2 files changed, 2 insertions(+), 0 deletions(-)
+ 2 files changed, 2 insertions(+)
 ----------------
 
 Because your branch did not contain anything more than what had
diff --git a/Documentation/gittutorial-2.txt b/Documentation/gittutorial-2.txt
index f1e4422acc..e00a4d2170 100644
--- a/Documentation/gittutorial-2.txt
+++ b/Documentation/gittutorial-2.txt
@@ -34,12 +34,12 @@ $ echo 'hello world' > file.txt
 $ git add .
 $ git commit -a -m "initial commit"
 [master (root-commit) 54196cc] initial commit
- 1 files changed, 1 insertions(+), 0 deletions(-)
+ 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+)
  create mode 100644 file.txt
 $ echo 'hello world!' >file.txt
 $ git commit -a -m "add emphasis"
 [master c4d59f3] add emphasis
- 1 files changed, 1 insertions(+), 1 deletions(-)
+ 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)
 ------------------------------------------------
 
 What are the 7 digits of hex that git responded to the commit with?