diff --git a/Documentation/RelNotes/2.7.2.txt b/Documentation/RelNotes/2.7.2.txt
index f7846a2..4feef76 100644
--- a/Documentation/RelNotes/2.7.2.txt
+++ b/Documentation/RelNotes/2.7.2.txt
@@ -24,4 +24,18 @@
    that is not used, to help those who test on Windows where it would
    not stop until it fills the pipe buffer due to lack of SIGPIPE.
 
+ * The vimdiff backend for "git mergetool" has been tweaked to arrange
+   and number buffers in the order that would match the expectation of
+   majority of people who read left to right, then top down and assign
+   buffers 1 2 3 4 "mentally" to local base remote merge windows based
+   on that order.
+
+ * The documentation for "git clean" has been corrected; it mentioned
+   that .git/modules/* are removed by giving two "-f", which has never
+   been the case.
+
+ * Paths that have been told the index about with "add -N" are not
+   quite yet in the index, but a few commands behaved as if they
+   already are in a harmful way.
+
 Also includes tiny documentation and test updates.
diff --git a/Documentation/git.txt b/Documentation/git.txt
index d987ad2..68a71b4 100644
--- a/Documentation/git.txt
+++ b/Documentation/git.txt
@@ -43,9 +43,10 @@
 branch of the `git.git` repository.
 Documentation for older releases are available here:
 
-* link:v2.7.1/git.html[documentation for release 2.7.1]
+* link:v2.7.2/git.html[documentation for release 2.7.2]
 
 * release notes for
+  link:RelNotes/2.7.2.txt[2.7.2],
   link:RelNotes/2.7.1.txt[2.7.1],
   link:RelNotes/2.7.0.txt[2.7].
 
diff --git a/GIT-VERSION-GEN b/GIT-VERSION-GEN
index 330b339..d7ab24e 100755
--- a/GIT-VERSION-GEN
+++ b/GIT-VERSION-GEN
@@ -1,7 +1,7 @@
 #!/bin/sh
 
 GVF=GIT-VERSION-FILE
-DEF_VER=v2.7.1
+DEF_VER=v2.7.2
 
 LF='
 '