Git 2.56-rc2

Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>

Documentation/RelNotes/2.56.0.adoc

diff --git a/Documentation/RelNotes/2.56.0.adoc b/Documentation/RelNotes/2.56.0.adoc
index 7056e99..b2a7440 100644
--- a/Documentation/RelNotes/2.56.0.adoc
+++ b/Documentation/RelNotes/2.56.0.adoc
@@ -888,7 +888,8 @@
    (merge ec602484bd kh/doc-datamodel later to maint).
 
  * Running "git history" in a corrupt repository can (unsurprisingly)
-   segfault when a necessary tree object is not found.
+   segfault when a necessary tree object is not found, which has been
+   made to die more gracefully.
    (merge 76621488e8 jc/history-missing-tree-errorfix later to maint).
 
  * The development helper script to lint gitlink references in the

GIT-VERSION-GEN

diff --git a/GIT-VERSION-GEN b/GIT-VERSION-GEN
index e1ba549..3b5fe08 100755
--- a/GIT-VERSION-GEN
+++ b/GIT-VERSION-GEN
@@ -1,6 +1,6 @@
 #!/bin/sh
 
-DEF_VER=v2.56.0-rc1
+DEF_VER=v2.56.0-rc2
 
 LF='
 '