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EGit/New and Noteworthy/1.3

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Revision as of 17:37, 5 February 2012 by Matthias.sohn.sap.com (Talk | contribs) (→‎Redesigned Import/Clone Wizard)

Features

Major

Branch Status Decoration

The number of commits that a local branch is ahead & behind a remote branch is now displayed in the project and repository decoration.

Egit-13-branch-decorations.png

Redesigned Import/Clone Wizard

  • Supports extension point which allows third-party repository providers to integrate into the wizard.
    • The GitHub Mylyn connector contains an implementation of this extension point
    • The Mylyn Reviews Gerrit connector will provide an implementation of this extension point for Git repositories hosted on Gerrit servers shortly after EGit 1.3 has been released.

Egit-13-import-wizard.png

Submodule Support

Clone wizard now supports optionally cloning all submodule repositories after the parent repository has finished cloning.

Egit-13-clone-submodules-wizard.png

Submodules are now displayed in Git Repositories view

Egit-13-submodules-node.png

Branch Project Tracking

Projects are now closed when checking out a branch where that project does not exist and reopened when the previous branch is checked back out. This option can be disabled from the Team > Git > Projects preference page.

Minor

  • Team > Create Patch... now supported on resource selections and patches can now be created from file changes in the working directory
  • Lightweight tags are now displayed in the history view and commit editor
  • Previously entered messages are now available in the commit dialog content assist window
  • Branches can now be renamed using the F2 key from the Git Repositories view
  • The maximum length to display for tags and branches in the History view is now configurable from the Team > Git > History preference page
  • Different diff header formats are now supported from the Create Patch... wizard
  • Stashed commits are now displayed in the Git Repositories view
  • Compare with Working Directory is now a menu option on files displayed in the History view and commit viewer
  • Working sets are now decorated with Git status
  • Selecting untracked files by default in the commit dialog can now configured from the Team > Git > Commit Dialog preference page
  • Date format used in the History view now uses the JVM date formatter

Bugs Closed

26 bugs and 4 enhancement requests were closed.

GitHub Mylyn Connector

  • GitHub Java API now supports the v3 events API
  • Apache HttpComponents is no longer a dependency of the GitHub Java API
  • GitHub is now an option in the EGit clone & import wizard
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