# [ANNOUNCE] Git 1.6.5.6

1 messages from 2009-12-11 to 2009-12-11. Participants: Junio C Hamano.
Thread: https://gitlist.dev/t/21935

## Junio C Hamano, 2009-12-11 06:09

Subject: [ANNOUNCE] Git 1.6.5.6
Message-ID: <7vljha59fb.fsf@alter.siamese.dyndns.org>
URL: https://gitlist.dev/e/7vljha59fb.fsf%40alter.siamese.dyndns.org

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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).

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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.

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