You'll noticeTier: how much it should matter to you
3Useful: my rating, 1 to 5
1Signal: worth watching, 1 to 5
PermissionsArea: what it touches
ImprovementsKind: in v2.1.248,
ImprovementsSection of the release
What
Date-range, formatting and stat flags such as --relative-date are now grouped into reusable sets shared by git show, so more read-only git invocations are recognised as safe. Signature format specifiers are additionally screened by a pattern check.
Evidence
--relative-date
Strings lifted out of the shipped bundle, so the claim above can be checked against them.