With the release of v3.1.15 a few breaking bugs were discovered. This caused yanking the version ~14h later.
Here we collect the kind of breakage and track their fixes to allow for a new release.

Until this issue is resolved no new releases can be made.

Issues

• GitCommand missing stderr #1221 GitCommand missing stderr - fixed with Fix missing stderr when the progress parameter of _clone is None #1224
• GitCommand errors are stringifying bytes in 3.1.15 #1220 GitCommand errors are stringifying bytes in 3.1.15 - fixed with Revert compiling GitCommand shell messages #1222
• Python 3.5 failing with AttributeError: module 'os' has no attribute 'PathLike' #1219 Python 3.5 to 3.8 failing with AttributeError: module 'os' has no attribute 'PathLike'
  • Even though it cropped up after the release CI doesn't yet pick it up. Typing should be evaluated to catch this.

Causes

My reviews aren't good enough and heavily rely heavily on the test-suite to pass. The latter, however, is far from complete, and the lack of static types makes it hard for tooling to expose issues at compile time.

Solutions

Please chime in if you have ideas on how to prevent breaking releases in future.

CC: @muggenhor @jmcgill298