diff --git a/cgit.changes b/cgit.changes
index 19ec0c1..20c4597 100644
--- a/cgit.changes
+++ b/cgit.changes
@@ -1,3 +1,8 @@
+-------------------------------------------------------------------
+Tue Oct  4 20:27:08 CEST 2011 - tiwai@suse.de
+
+- updated to git 1.7.7; see git changelog for more details
+
 -------------------------------------------------------------------
 Mon Sep 26 12:57:01 CEST 2011 - tiwai@suse.de
 
diff --git a/cgit.spec b/cgit.spec
index 56051d5..d8444c5 100644
--- a/cgit.spec
+++ b/cgit.spec
@@ -17,7 +17,7 @@
 
 # norootforbuild
 
-%define git_version	1.7.6.4
+%define git_version	1.7.7
 
 Name:           cgit
 Url:            http://hjemli.net/git/cgit/
diff --git a/git-1.7.6.4.tar.gz b/git-1.7.6.4.tar.gz
deleted file mode 100644
index 4406297..0000000
--- a/git-1.7.6.4.tar.gz
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,3 +0,0 @@
-version https://git-lfs.github.com/spec/v1
-oid sha256:c95bb6fdfa8276a6cbc1c3150e56ce3dc2fc29a4bcecd9c246ab9df5d9638ec6
-size 3399093
diff --git a/git-1.7.7.tar.gz b/git-1.7.7.tar.gz
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..94ead5b
--- /dev/null
+++ b/git-1.7.7.tar.gz
@@ -0,0 +1,3 @@
+version https://git-lfs.github.com/spec/v1
+oid sha256:5a977bc01e4989b9928345e99aab15ce896cf5897c6e32eb449538574df377f6
+size 3475448
diff --git a/git.changes b/git.changes
index 3c453df..142b093 100644
--- a/git.changes
+++ b/git.changes
@@ -1,3 +1,11 @@
+-------------------------------------------------------------------
+Tue Oct  4 20:20:00 CEST 2011 - tiwai@suse.de
+
+- updated to 1.7.7: major update from 1.7.6.x, including i18n/l10n
+  prepartion, updates of git-p4, gitweb, improved coloring,
+  various updates of git-am, git-bisect, git-cherck-attr, etc.
+  See Documentation/RelNotes/1.7.7.txt for details.
+
 -------------------------------------------------------------------
 Mon Sep 26 12:55:36 CEST 2011 - tiwai@suse.de
 
diff --git a/git.spec b/git.spec
index 7021338..60aa69b 100644
--- a/git.spec
+++ b/git.spec
@@ -39,7 +39,7 @@ BuildRequires:  sgml-skel
 BuildRequires:  xmlto
 BuildRequires:  python
 BuildRequires:  perl-Error
-Version:        1.7.6.4
+Version:        1.7.7
 Release:        1
 Summary:        Fast, scalable, distributed revision control system
 License:        GPLv2+