Under the hoodTier: how much it should matter to you
1Useful: my rating, 1 to 5
1Signal: worth watching, 1 to 5
Cloud SyncArea: what it touches
Internal ChangesKind: in v2.1.281,
Internal ChangesSection of the release
What
Directory sync checks whether your local and remote history have split apart. The git merge-base step of that check now runs on its own, with its own deadline and cancel. It is skipped when your current commit already matches the remote. If it runs out of time, the log says "deadline or abort during the ancestry read".
Why
A slow history lookup can no longer hold up the check indefinitely, and it is skipped when it is not needed.