The latest maintenance release Git 1.6.5.6 is available at the
usual places:
http://www.kernel.org/pub/software/scm/git/
git-1.6.5.6.tar.{gz,bz2} (source tarball) git-htmldocs-1.6.5.6.tar.{gz,bz2} (preformatted docs) git-manpages-1.6.5.6.tar.{gz,bz2} (preformatted docs)
The RPM binary packages for a few architectures are found in:
RPMS/$arch/git-*-1.6.5.6-1.fc11.$arch.rpm (RPM)
Hopefully this will be the last update to the 1.6.5.X series before the
upcoming feature release (1.6.6). It fixes a security issue, and users of
older 1.6.5.X series are strongly recommended to update to this version.
Git v1.6.5.6 Release Notes
Fixes since v1.6.5.5
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“git add -p” had a regression since v1.6.5.3 that broke deletion of
non-empty files. -
“git archive -o o.zip — Makefile” produced an archive in o.zip
but in POSIX tar format. -
Error message given to “git pull –rebase” when the user didn’t give
enough clue as to what branch to integrate with still talked about
“merging with” the branch. -
Error messages given by “git merge” when the merge resulted in a
fast-forward still were in plumbing lingo, even though in v1.6.5
we reworded messages in other cases. -
The post-upload-hook run by upload-pack in response to “git fetch” has
been removed, due to security concerns (the hook first appeared in
1.6.5).
Changes since v1.6.5.5 are as follows: Jan Krüger (1): pull: clarify advice for the unconfigured error case Jeff King (1): add-interactive: fix deletion of non-empty files Junio C Hamano (3): Remove post-upload-hook Fix archive format with -- on the command line Git 1.6.5.6 Matthieu Moy (2): merge-recursive: make the error-message generation an extern function builtin-merge: show user-friendly error messages for fast-forward too.