Git 1.8.5.6
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
diff --git a/Documentation/RelNotes/1.8.5.6.txt b/Documentation/RelNotes/1.8.5.6.txt
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+Git v1.8.5.6 Release Notes
+==========================
+
+Fixes since v1.8.5.5
+--------------------
+
+ * We used to allow committing a path ".Git/config" with Git that is
+ running on a case sensitive filesystem, but an attempt to check out
+ such a path with Git that runs on a case insensitive filesystem
+ would have clobbered ".git/config", which is definitely not what
+ the user would have expected. Git now prevents you from tracking
+ a path with ".Git" (in any case combination) as a path component.
+
+ * On Windows, certain path components that are different from ".git"
+ are mapped to ".git", e.g. "git~1/config" is treated as if it were
+ ".git/config". HFS+ has a similar issue, where certain unicode
+ codepoints are ignored, e.g. ".g\u200cit/config" is treated as if
+ it were ".git/config". Pathnames with these potential issues are
+ rejected on the affected systems. Git on systems that are not
+ affected by this issue (e.g. Linux) can also be configured to
+ reject them to ensure cross platform interoperability of the hosted
+ projects.
+
+ * "git fsck" notices a tree object that records such a path that can
+ be confused with ".git", and with receive.fsckObjects configuration
+ set to true, an attempt to "git push" such a tree object will be
+ rejected. Such a path may not be a problem on a well behaving
+ filesystem but in order to protect those on HFS+ and on case
+ insensitive filesystems, this check is enabled on all platforms.
+
+A big "thanks!" for bringing this issue to us goes to our friends in
+the Mercurial land, namely, Matt Mackall and Augie Fackler.
+
+Also contains typofixes, documentation updates and trivial code clean-ups.
diff --git a/Documentation/git.txt b/Documentation/git.txt
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--- a/Documentation/git.txt
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branch of the `git.git` repository.
Documentation for older releases are available here:
-* link:v1.8.5.5/git.html[documentation for release 1.8.5.5]
+* link:v1.8.5.6/git.html[documentation for release 1.8.5.6]
* release notes for
+ link:RelNotes/1.8.5.6.txt[1.8.5.6],
link:RelNotes/1.8.5.5.txt[1.8.5.5],
link:RelNotes/1.8.5.4.txt[1.8.5.4],
link:RelNotes/1.8.5.3.txt[1.8.5.3],
diff --git a/GIT-VERSION-GEN b/GIT-VERSION-GEN
index c1b7e2d..4e1cc6c 100755
--- a/GIT-VERSION-GEN
+++ b/GIT-VERSION-GEN
@@ -1,7 +1,7 @@
#!/bin/sh
GVF=GIT-VERSION-FILE
-DEF_VER=v1.8.5.5
+DEF_VER=v1.8.5.6
LF='
'
diff --git a/RelNotes b/RelNotes
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-Documentation/RelNotes/1.8.5.5.txt
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+Documentation/RelNotes/1.8.5.6.txt
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