Issue and test deprecation warnings by@EliahKagan in#1886
Fix version_info cache invalidation, typing, parsing, and serialization by@EliahKagan in#1838
Document manual refresh path treatment by@EliahKagan in#1839
Improve static typing and docstrings related to git object types by@EliahKagan in#1859

Other Changes

Test in Docker with Alpine Linux on CI by@EliahKagan in#1826
Build online docs (RTD) with -W and dependencies by@EliahKagan in#1843
Suggest full-path refresh() in failure message by@EliahKagan in#1844
repo.blame andrepo.blame_incremental now acceptNone as therev parameter. by@Gaubbe in#1846
Make sure diff always uses the default diff driver whencreate_patch=True by@can-taslicukur in#1832
Revise docstrings, comments, and a few messages by@EliahKagan in#1850
Expand what is included in the API Reference by@EliahKagan in#1855
Restore building of documentation downloads by@EliahKagan in#1856
Revise type annotations slightly by@EliahKagan in#1860
Updating regex pattern to handle unicode whitespaces. by@jcole-crowdstrike in#1853
Use upgraded pip in test fixture virtual environment by@EliahKagan in#1864
lint: replaceflake8 withruff check by@Borda in#1862
lint: switch Black withruff-format by@Borda in#1865
Update readme and tox.ini for recent tooling changes by@EliahKagan in#1868
Split tox lint env into three envs, all safe by@EliahKagan in#1870
Slightly broaden Ruff, and update and clarify tool configuration by@EliahKagan in#1871
Add a "doc" extra for documentation build dependencies by@EliahKagan in#1872
DescribeSubmodule.__init__ parent_commit parameter by@EliahKagan in#1877
Include TagObject in git.types.Tree_ish by@EliahKagan in#1878
Improve Sphinx role usage, including linking Git manpages by@EliahKagan in#1879
Replace all wildcard imports with explicit imports by@EliahKagan in#1880
Clarify how tag objects are usually tree-ish and commit-ish by@EliahKagan in#1881