[ANNOUNCE] Git 1.6.6.rc4

A release candidate Git 1.6.6.rc4 is available at the usual places for final testing:

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

  git-1.6.6.rc4.tar.{gz,bz2}			(source tarball)
  git-htmldocs-1.6.6.rc4.tar.{gz,bz2}		(preformatted docs)
  git-manpages-1.6.6.rc4.tar.{gz,bz2}		(preformatted docs)

The RPM binary packages for a few architectures are found in:

  testing/git-*-1.6.6.rc4-1.fc11.$arch.rpm	(RPM)

Hopefully I'll do the final this Wednesday to make 1.6.6 a holiday gift to everybody.

I would very much prefer news outlets like kernelpodcast.org and lwn.net _not_ to say "... is released; it comes with many _fixes_". Fixes to released versions have indeed been included in the 'master' branch, but they all appear in the maintenance release. The main _point_ of using a new feature release like 1.6.6 is to get new _features_, so it is more appropriate to say "it comes with many new features."

Thanks for all contributors who have worked hard to whip this release into shape.

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Changes since v1.6.6-rc3 are as follows:

Björn Gustavsson (1):
      rebase -i: abort cleanly if the editor fails to launch

Eric Wong (2):
      git svn: make empty directory creation gc-aware
      t9146: use 'svn_cmd' wrapper

Junio C Hamano (1):
      Git 1.6.6-rc4

Stephen Boyd (2):
      api-strbuf.txt: fix typos and document launch_editor()
      technical-docs: document hash API