Under the hoodTier: how much it should matter to you
1Useful: my rating, 1 to 5
2Signal: worth watching, 1 to 5
File SyncArea: what it touches
Internal ChangesKind: in v2.1.239,
Internal ChangesSection of the release
What
Sync statistics and telemetry now count files withheld because of content filtering, separately from files withheld because they looked like tracked credentials.
Details
The local scan result reports which paths are marked skip-worktree in git.
The per-path reader takes an optional backend descriptor and hands off to a different reader whenever the backend is not the by-name one, and skips nested paths when told to handle the root only.
A working-parent-is-not-a-directory error is now classified as a symlink skip, alongside the existing too-many-links errors.
Evidence
withheld_content_filter
Strings lifted out of the shipped bundle, so the claim above can be checked against them.
