Copier

Feat

- Add `_copier_operation` variable (1733)
- **context**: expose a `_copier_phase` context variable

Fix

- explicitly specify file encoding for windows (2007)
- auto-detect encoding when reading external data file
- **settings**: auto-detect encoding when reading settings file
- **cli**: auto-detect encoding when reading unicode-encoded file specified with
`--data-file`
- expose only answers in question rendering context
- ignore `$file` if `$file.tmpl` exists when subdirectory is used
- decode external data file content explicitly as UTF-8
- decode answers file content explicitly as UTF-8

Refactor

- use common answers file loader

Feat

- **external_data**: load data from other YAML files
- **settings**: allow to define some trusted repositories or prefixes
- **settings**: add user settings support with `defaults` values (fix 235)
- add dynamic file structures in loop using yield-tag (1855)
- add support for dynamic choices

Fix

- correctly record missing stages in index for merge conflicts (1907)
- allow importing from a file that has a conditional name
- **updating**: don't crash when file is removed from template's `.gitignore` file
(1886)
- **deps**: update dependency packaging to v24.2
- re-render answers file path when producing render context
- restore compatibility with Git prior to v2.31 (1838)
- **updating**: don't validate computed values
- Don't mark files without conflict markers as unmerged (1813)

Fix

- restore support for `preserve_symlinks: false` for directories (1820)

Fix

- **exclude**: support negative exclude matching child of excluded parent
- parse new answer when `--skip-answered` is used
- validate answers to secret questions
- **updating**: do not recreate deleted paths on update (1719)
- support Git config without user identity

Refactor

- set default value for `keep_trailing_newline` more idiomatically
- drop support for Python 3.8

Perf

- **updating**: avoid creating subproject copy

Fix

- pass `--skip-tasks` flag to worker (1688)

Feat

- add simpler migrations configuration syntax (1510)

Fix

- **tasks**: do not consider unsafe if they are being skipped
- add context information to answer validation error message (1609)
- do not overwrite identical files (1576)
- **updating**: unset invalid last answers
- render `default` list items for multi-select choice questions
- **updating**: yield merge conflict when both template and project add same file