1.2.0 (2024-02-02)

🐛 Bug Fixes

• Fix an invalid escape sequence in a regex that caused a syntax warning.
  Fixes #602 via
  #603 (by @mih)

💫 Enhancements and new features

• Speed up of status reports for repositories with many submodules.
  An early presence check for submodules skips unnecessary evaluation
  steps. Fixes #606 via
  #607 (by @mih)

🏠 Internal

• Fix implementation error in ParamDictator class that caused a test
  failure. The class itself is unused and has been scheduled for removal.
  See #611 and
  #610 (by @christian-monch)

🛡 Tests

• Promote a previously internal fixture to provide a standard
  modified_dataset fixture. This fixture is sessions-scope, and
  yields a dataset with many facets of modification, suitable for
  testing change reporting. The fixture verifies that no
  modifications have been applied to the testbed. (by @mih)

• iterable_subprocess tests have been robustified to better handle the
  observed diversity of execution environments. This addresseses, for example,
  https://bugs.debian.org/1061739.
  #614 (by @christian-monch)