diff --git a/cgit.changes b/cgit.changes
index 8799788..8ba5382 100644
--- a/cgit.changes
+++ b/cgit.changes
@@ -1,3 +1,8 @@
+-------------------------------------------------------------------
+Thu Aug 25 12:23:22 CEST 2011 - tiwai@suse.de
+
+- update to git 1.7.6.1: see git changelog for more details
+
 -------------------------------------------------------------------
 Fri Aug  5 15:13:43 CEST 2011 - tiwai@suse.de
 
diff --git a/cgit.spec b/cgit.spec
index 9d77db4..2f37a06 100644
--- a/cgit.spec
+++ b/cgit.spec
@@ -17,7 +17,7 @@
 
 # norootforbuild
 
-%define git_version	1.7.6
+%define git_version	1.7.6.1
 
 Name:           cgit
 Url:            http://hjemli.net/git/cgit/
diff --git a/git-1.7.6.1.tar.bz2 b/git-1.7.6.1.tar.bz2
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..0fdf024
--- /dev/null
+++ b/git-1.7.6.1.tar.bz2
@@ -0,0 +1,3 @@
+version https://git-lfs.github.com/spec/v1
+oid sha256:856d4197ef7172938b0b44e55174c7d7ddfaf5e844e04960322c49eda9f3a246
+size 2811203
diff --git a/git-1.7.6.tar.bz2 b/git-1.7.6.tar.bz2
deleted file mode 100644
index 5d2e13c..0000000
--- a/git-1.7.6.tar.bz2
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,3 +0,0 @@
-version https://git-lfs.github.com/spec/v1
-oid sha256:778795cece63cd758192378f3a999870cea290181b3a4c9de573c77192561082
-size 2806337
diff --git a/git.changes b/git.changes
index b68805a..9e32fc4 100644
--- a/git.changes
+++ b/git.changes
@@ -1,3 +1,10 @@
+-------------------------------------------------------------------
+Thu Aug 25 12:15:47 CEST 2011 - tiwai@suse.de
+
+- updated to 1.7.6.1: bug fix release; many fixes for e.g. git
+  checkout, git diff, git fetch, etc.
+  See Documentation/RelNotes/1.7.6.1.txt for details.
+
 -------------------------------------------------------------------
 Wed Jun 29 17:38:24 CEST 2011 - tiwai@suse.de
 
diff --git a/git.spec b/git.spec
index 5522899..dae4a91 100644
--- a/git.spec
+++ b/git.spec
@@ -39,8 +39,8 @@ BuildRequires:  sgml-skel
 BuildRequires:  xmlto
 BuildRequires:  python
 BuildRequires:  perl-Error
-Version:        1.7.6
-Release:        5
+Version:        1.7.6.1
+Release:        1
 Summary:        Fast, scalable, distributed revision control system
 License:        GPLv2+
 Group:          Development/Tools/Version Control