diff --git a/Documentation/RelNotes/1.7.9.4.txt b/Documentation/RelNotes/1.7.9.4.txt
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..e5217a1889cfd6a12f420050bcdc75beb1fb5693
--- /dev/null
+++ b/Documentation/RelNotes/1.7.9.4.txt
@@ -0,0 +1,24 @@
+Git v1.7.9.4 Release Notes
+==========================
+
+Fixes since v1.7.9.3
+--------------------
+
+ * The code to synthesize the fake ancestor tree used by 3-way merge
+   fallback in "git am" was not prepared to read a patch created with
+   a non-standard -p<num> value.
+
+ * "git bundle" did not record boundary commits correctly when there
+   are many of them.
+
+ * "git diff-index" and its friends at the plumbing level showed the
+   "diff --git" header and nothing else for a path whose cached stat
+   info is dirty without actual difference when asked to produce a
+   patch. This was a longstanding bug that we could have fixed long
+   time ago.
+
+ * "gitweb" did use quotemeta() to prepare search string when asked to
+   do a fixed-string project search, but did not use it by mistake and
+   used the user-supplied string instead.
+
+Also contains minor fixes and documentation updates.
diff --git a/Documentation/git.txt b/Documentation/git.txt
index b257d80c756cb7bf45ff1a57abd5488e3ad8f5f6..d5b7667c15ef45e371b3fd3c4ecdf513f8f7cc02 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:v1.7.9.3/git.html[documentation for release 1.7.9.3]
+* link:v1.7.9.4/git.html[documentation for release 1.7.9.4]
 
 * release notes for
+  link:RelNotes/1.7.9.4.txt[1.7.9.4],
   link:RelNotes/1.7.9.3.txt[1.7.9.3],
   link:RelNotes/1.7.9.2.txt[1.7.9.2],
   link:RelNotes/1.7.9.1.txt[1.7.9.1],
diff --git a/GIT-VERSION-GEN b/GIT-VERSION-GEN
index de203dd288267f134a83e754148587a5545d15b6..8ddc96d952c48bd87055591f5b03118f00724010 100755
--- a/GIT-VERSION-GEN
+++ b/GIT-VERSION-GEN
@@ -1,7 +1,7 @@
 #!/bin/sh
 
 GVF=GIT-VERSION-FILE
-DEF_VER=v1.7.9.3
+DEF_VER=v1.7.9.4
 
 LF='
 '
diff --git a/RelNotes b/RelNotes
index 36a588545842e8fcebf31f7ab59fa890f1ef5e8e..f9f04dd382737edd1e0caba5326e892017224a1d 120000
--- a/RelNotes
+++ b/RelNotes
@@ -1 +1 @@
-Documentation/RelNotes/1.7.9.3.txt
\ No newline at end of file
+Documentation/RelNotes/1.7.9.4.txt
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