A maintenance release Git 1.7.8.6 is now available at the usual places.
This contains minor documentation fixes and code clean-ups.
The release tarballs are found at:
http://code.google.com/p/git-core/downloads/list
and their SHA-1 checksums are:
b204ae56e511c541425c5db757132fcd35f64117 git-1.7.8.6.tar.gz 0618da00f11a6bb91da7d639f348bb806b153650 git-htmldocs-1.7.8.6.tar.gz 2d2da141cebb2d7cce03abb556ee52c3dbad3831 git-manpages-1.7.8.6.tar.gz
Also the following public repositories all have a copy of the v1.7.8.6 tag and the maint-1.7.8 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/git