diff --git a/Documentation/RelNotes-1.6.4.4.txt b/Documentation/RelNotes-1.6.4.4.txt
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000..0ead45fc72
--- /dev/null
+++ b/Documentation/RelNotes-1.6.4.4.txt
@@ -0,0 +1,26 @@
+GIT v1.6.4.4 Release Notes
+==========================
+
+Fixes since v1.6.4.4
+--------------------
+
+* The workaround for Github server that sometimes gave 500 (Internal server
+  error) response to HEAD requests in 1.6.4.3 introduced a regression that
+  caused re-fetching projects over http to segfault in certain cases due
+  to uninitialized pointer being freed.
+
+* "git pull" on an unborn branch used to consider anything in the work
+  tree and the index discardable.
+
+* "git diff -b/w" did not work well on the incomplete line at the end of
+  the file, due to an incorrect hashing of lines in the low-level xdiff
+  routines.
+
+* "git checkout-index --prefix=$somewhere" used to work when $somewhere is
+  a symbolic link to a directory elsewhere, but v1.6.4.2 broke it.
+
+* "git unpack-objects --strict", invoked when receive.fsckobjects
+  configuration is set in the receiving repository of "git push", did not
+  properly check the objects, especially the submodule links, it received.
+
+Other minor documentation updates are included.
diff --git a/Documentation/git.txt b/Documentation/git.txt
index f91cabb4ce..20b573e37c 100644
--- a/Documentation/git.txt
+++ b/Documentation/git.txt
@@ -43,9 +43,10 @@ unreleased) version of git, that is available from 'master'
 branch of the `git.git` repository.
 Documentation for older releases are available here:
 
-* link:v1.6.4.3/git.html[documentation for release 1.6.4.3]
+* link:v1.6.4.4/git.html[documentation for release 1.6.4.4]
 
 * release notes for
+  link:RelNotes-1.6.4.4.txt[1.6.4.4],
   link:RelNotes-1.6.4.3.txt[1.6.4.3],
   link:RelNotes-1.6.4.2.txt[1.6.4.2],
   link:RelNotes-1.6.4.1.txt[1.6.4.1],
diff --git a/GIT-VERSION-GEN b/GIT-VERSION-GEN
index 7956bc94a3..68b95733c7 100755
--- a/GIT-VERSION-GEN
+++ b/GIT-VERSION-GEN
@@ -1,7 +1,7 @@
 #!/bin/sh
 
 GVF=GIT-VERSION-FILE
-DEF_VER=v1.6.4.3
+DEF_VER=v1.6.4.4
 
 LF='
 '
diff --git a/RelNotes b/RelNotes
index ed984e3b41..2dad8b277d 120000
--- a/RelNotes
+++ b/RelNotes
@@ -1 +1 @@
-Documentation/RelNotes-1.6.4.3.txt
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+Documentation/RelNotes-1.6.4.4.txt
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