It seems the stable version is getting slightly dated, so perhaps a bump can be done (and, possibly clean-out the dev-vcs/git directory - 32 ebuilds currently!). It looks a little too early for 1.7.1, only in the tree for a few weeks, but perhaps 1.7.0.4 would work. Reproducible: Always
Handling stabilization on a newer bug. *** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of bug 321899 ***