What's Changed

• test: cover subdirectory discovery and pathspec commands in bare-repository worktrees by @christianvuerings in #2228
• Read git's yes/no and on/off booleans in get_value by @rawsun007 in #2229
• Clarify detached HEAD access and isolate test branch state by @Byron in #2231
• Reject submodule move destinations through intermediate symlinks by @Byron in #2232
• fix: validate checkout positional reference options by @Byron in #2233
• Fix timeout child-process lookup on non-GNU systems by @aprylewu in #2236
• Preserve implicit boolean config keys by @Byron in #2238
• Reject comments after implicit boolean config keys by @Byron in #2239
• Fix case-insensitive Git config name matching by @Byron in #2241
• Move project metadata to pyproject.toml by @mwtoews in #2242
• Move [doc] extra to a PEP 735 dependency group; add uv-sync CI check by @mwtoews in #2243
• fix: strip inline config comments the way git does by @rawsun007 in #2245
• Drop Python 3.7 by @mwtoews in #2246
• fix: preserve positional operands in high-level Git commands by @Byron in #2247
• submodule: option to update without fetching by @jeffro256 in #2244
• bump minor version to indicate drop of python 3.7 support by @Byron in #2248
• fix: skip a UTF-8 BOM when reading config files by @geek-alpha in #2249
• fix: complete safety checks in Git command wrappers by @Byron in #2251
• build(deps): bump astral-sh/setup-uv from 10.1.0 to 10.2.0 by @dependabot[bot] in #2252
• fix: bound actor and date parsing by @Byron in #2253
• fix(repo): preserve literal separate Git directory paths by @Byron in #2255
• fix: validate object types when loading binary SHAs by @Byron in #2256
• fix(commit): bound co_authors trailer parsing by @Keerthana-64 in #2257
• various fixes by @Byron in #2258
• fix(config): bound option-line parsing by @radhika1314 in #2259

New Contributors

• @christianvuerings made their first contribution in #2228
• @rawsun007 made their first contribution in #2229
• @aprylewu made their first contribution in #2236
• @mwtoews made their first contribution in #2242
• @jeffro256 made their first contribution in #2244
• @geek-alpha made their first contribution in #2249
• @Keerthana-64 made their first contribution in #2257
• @radhika1314 made their first contribution in #2259

Full Changelog: 3.1.62...3.2.0