[ANNOUNCE] GIT 1.6.0.6

From: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Date: Dec 20, 2008, 06:40 UTC
Message-ID: <7vljub1h92.fsf@gitster.siamese.dyndns.org>

The latest maintenance release GIT 1.6.0.6 is available at the usual places:

  http://www.kernel.org/pub/software/scm/git/

  git-1.6.0.6.tar.{gz,bz2}			(source tarball)
  git-htmldocs-1.6.0.6.tar.{gz,bz2}		(preformatted docs)
  git-manpages-1.6.0.6.tar.{gz,bz2}		(preformatted docs)

The RPM binary packages for a few architectures are also provided as courtesy.

  RPMS/$arch/git-*-1.6.0.6-1.fc9.$arch.rpm	(RPM)

Among miscellaneous fixes, this contains a local gitweb security fix. Maintenance releases for older versions (v1.5.4.7, v1.5.5.6 and v1.5.6.6) are also available at the same place.

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Changes since v1.6.0.5 are as follows:

David Aguilar (1):
      git-mergetool: properly handle "git mergetool -- filename"

Deskin Miller (1):
      git-svn: Make following parents atomic

Jim Meyering (1):
      git-config.txt: fix a typo

Johannes Schindelin (2):
      fast-import: close pack before unlinking it
      fast-export: deal with tag objects that do not have a tagger

Junio C Hamano (6):
      work around Python warnings from AsciiDoc
      git-show: do not segfault when showing a bad tag
      pager: do not dup2 stderr if it is already redirected
      gitweb: do not run "git diff" that is Porcelain
      GIT 1.5.4.7
      fast-import: make tagger information optional

Linus Torvalds (1):
      fsck: reduce stack footprint

Markus Heidelberg (1):
      Documentation: fix typos, grammar, asciidoc syntax

Miklos Vajna (1):
      SubmittingPatches: mention the usage of real name in Signed-off-by: lines

Nicolas Pitre (1):
      make sure packs to be replaced are closed beforehand

Wu Fengguang (1):
      git-send-email: handle email address with quoted comma