Merge branch 'master' into next

* master:
  Git 1.7.9
  INSTALL: warn about recent Fedora breakage

Documentation/git.txt

@@ -44,6 +44,11 @@ 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/git.html[documentation for release 1.7.9]
+
+* release notes for
+  link:RelNotes/1.7.9.txt[1.7.9].
+
 * link:v1.7.8.4/git.html[documentation for release 1.7.8.4]
 
 * release notes for

GIT-VERSION-GEN

@@ -1,7 +1,7 @@
 #!/bin/sh
 
 GVF=GIT-VERSION-FILE
-DEF_VER=v1.7.9-rc2
+DEF_VER=v1.7.9
 
 LF='
 '

INSTALL

@@ -83,7 +83,11 @@ Issues of note:
 	- "Perl" version 5.8 or later is needed to use some of the
 	  features (e.g. preparing a partial commit using "git add -i/-p",
 	  interacting with svn repositories with "git svn").  If you can
-	  live without these, use NO_PERL.
+	  live without these, use NO_PERL.  Note that recent releases of
+	  Redhat/Fedora are reported to ship Perl binary package with some
+	  core modules stripped away (see http://lwn.net/Articles/477234/),
+	  so you might need to install additional packages other than Perl
+	  itself, e.g. Time::HiRes.
 
 	- "openssl" library is used by git-imap-send to use IMAP over SSL.
 	  If you don't need it, use NO_OPENSSL.