Under the hoodTier: how much it should matter to you
3Useful: my rating, 1 to 5
3Signal: worth watching, 1 to 5
GitArea: what it touches
Internal ChangesKind: in v2.1.224,
Internal ChangesSection of the release
What
Remote and cloud git operations no longer write a helper script to disk. They pass an inline shell function on the command line that emits a fixed username and reads the password from a named environment variable, after clearing any existing credential helper for the remote.
Evidence
printf 'username=unused
Strings lifted out of the shipped bundle, so the claim above can be checked against them.
