Backport fixes to 1.x #1320
Description
The following bugs would benefit from being back ported to the version 1 branch. I plan to prepare a release as well.
- Blocked string literals in commitConfig.diff.block.literals incorrectly handled as RegExp #1238
- Z_DATA_ERROR during push parsing #1040 & fix: reimplement push parsing to prevent Z_DATA_ERROR #1187
- fix: defer reading of database configuration until needed to fix race #1316
- fix: allow all default config to be replaced by user config #742