You'll noticeTier: how much it should matter to you
3Useful: my rating, 1 to 5
2Signal: worth watching, 1 to 5
BashArea: what it touches
New FeaturesKind: in v2.1.251,
New FeaturesSection of the release
What
When a sed-based edit targets a symbolic link, the preview now says the file is a link whose target cannot be edited in place, and that sed -i reads through the link and writes a regular file in the link's place instead of changing the target. Previously the diff was withheld or described inaccurately.
Details
Applies to every sed edit on a symlinked path, with no flag.
Evidence
is a symbolic link whose target is not editable in place here
Strings lifted out of the shipped bundle, so the claim above can be checked against them.
