The latest maintenance release Git 1.7.6.3 is available but unfortunately not at the usual places.
The release tarball is found at:
http://code.google.com/p/git-core/downloads/list and its SHA-1 checksum is:
7264c0b0d97cb6a70447ba3b4b6fa488810d8115 git-1.7.6.3.tar.gz
Also the following public repositories all have a copy of the v1.7.6.3 tag and the maint branch that the tag points at:
url = git://repo.or.cz/alt-git.git
url = https://code.google.com/p/git-core/
url = git://git.sourceforge.jp/gitroot/git-core/git.git
url = git://git-core.git.sourceforge.net/gitroot/git-core/git-core
url = https://github.com/gitster/gitGit v1.7.6.3 Release Notes ==========================
Fixes since v1.7.6.2 --------------------
* "git -c var=value subcmd" misparsed the custom configuration when value contained an equal sign.
* "git fetch" had a major performance regression, wasting many needless cycles in a repository where there is no submodules present. This was especially bad, when there were many refs.
* "git reflog $refname" did not default to the "show" subcommand as the documentation advertised the command to do.
* "git reset" did not leave meaningful log message in the reflog.
* "git status --ignored" did not show ignored items when there is no untracked items.
* "git tag --contains $commit" was unnecessarily inefficient.
Also contains minor fixes and documentation updates.