Special thanks go to@EliahKagan who reported the issue and fixed it in a single stroke, while being responsible for an incredible amount of improvements that he contributed over the last couple of months ❤️.

What's Changed

Add__all__ in git.exc by@EliahKagan in#1719
Set submodule update cadence to weekly by@EliahKagan in#1721
Never modify sys.path by@EliahKagan in#1720
Bump git/ext/gitdb from8ec2390 toec58b7e by@dependabot in#1722
Revise comments, docstrings, some messages, and a bit of code by@EliahKagan in#1725
Use zero-argument super() by@EliahKagan in#1726
Remove obsolete note in _iter_packed_refs by@EliahKagan in#1727
Reorganize test_util and make xfail marks precise by@EliahKagan in#1729
Clarify license and make module top comments more consistent by@EliahKagan in#1730
Deprecate compat.is_, rewriting all uses by@EliahKagan in#1732
Revise and restore some module docstrings by@EliahKagan in#1735
Make the rmtree callback Windows-only by@EliahKagan in#1739
List all non-passing tests in test summaries by@EliahKagan in#1740
Document some minor subtleties in test_util.py by@EliahKagan in#1749
Always read metadata files as UTF-8 in setup.py by@EliahKagan in#1748
Test native Windows on CI by@EliahKagan in#1745
Test macOS on CI by@EliahKagan in#1752
Let close_fds be True on all platforms by@EliahKagan in#1753
Fix IndexFile.from_tree on Windows by@EliahKagan in#1751
Remove unused TASKKILL fallback in AutoInterrupt by@EliahKagan in#1754
Don't return with operand when conceptually void by@EliahKagan in#1755
Group .gitignore entries by purpose by@EliahKagan in#1758
Adding dubious ownership handling by@marioaag in#1746
Avoid brittle assumptions about preexisting temporary files in tests by@EliahKagan in#1759
Overhaul noqa directives by@EliahKagan in#1760
Clarify some Git.execute kill_after_timeout limitations by@EliahKagan in#1761
Bump actions/setup-python from 4 to 5 by@dependabot in#1763
Don't install black on Cygwin by@EliahKagan in#1766
Extract all "import gc" to module level by@EliahKagan in#1765
Extract remaining local "import gc" to module level by@EliahKagan in#1768
Replace xfail with gc.collect in TestSubmodule.test_rename by@EliahKagan in#1767
Enable CodeQL by@EliahKagan in#1769
Replace some uses of the deprecated mktemp function by@EliahKagan in#1770
Bump github/codeql-action from 2 to 3 by@dependabot in#1773
Run some Windows environment variable tests only on Windows by@EliahKagan in#1774
Fix TemporaryFileSwap regression where file_path could not be Path by@EliahKagan in#1776
Improve hooks tests by@EliahKagan in#1777
Fix if items of Index is of type PathLike by@stegm in#1778
Better document IterableObj.iter_items and improve some subclasses by@EliahKagan in#1780
Revert "Don't install black on Cygwin" by@EliahKagan in#1783
Add missing pip in $PATH on Cygwin CI by@EliahKagan in#1784
Shorten Iterable docstrings and put IterableObj first by@EliahKagan in#1785
Fix incompletely revised Iterable/IterableObj docstrings by@EliahKagan in#1786
Pre-deprecate setting Git.USE_SHELL by@EliahKagan in#1782
Deprecate Git.USE_SHELL by@EliahKagan in#1787
In handle_process_output don't forward finalizer result by@EliahKagan in#1788
Fix mypy warning "Missing return statement" by@EliahKagan in#1789
Fix two remaining Windows untrusted search path cases by@EliahKagan in#1792