Git 2.19.6

Signed-off-by: Johannes Schindelin <johannes.schindelin@gmx.de>

3 files changed, 8 insertions, 2 deletions

diff --git a/Documentation/RelNotes/2.19.6.txt b/Documentation/RelNotes/2.19.6.txt
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000..bcca6cd258
--- /dev/null
+++ b/Documentation/RelNotes/2.19.6.txt
@@ -0,0 +1,6 @@
+Git v2.19.6 Release Notes
+=========================
+
+This release merges up the fixes that appear in v2.17.6 and
+v2.18.5 to address the security issue CVE-2021-21300; see the
+release notes for these versions for details.
diff --git a/GIT-VERSION-GEN b/GIT-VERSION-GEN
index 2dbaf7d035..df1f288df8 100755
--- a/GIT-VERSION-GEN
+++ b/GIT-VERSION-GEN
@@ -1,7 +1,7 @@
 #!/bin/sh
 
 GVF=GIT-VERSION-FILE
-DEF_VER=v2.19.5
+DEF_VER=v2.19.6
 
 LF='
 '
diff --git a/RelNotes b/RelNotes
index 5b8f82f343..464f50634f 120000
--- a/RelNotes
+++ b/RelNotes
@@ -1 +1 @@
-Documentation/RelNotes/2.19.5.txt
\ No newline at end of file
+Documentation/RelNotes/2.19.6.txt
\ No newline at end of file