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:This change was done mainly to facilitate tunneling HTTPS connections through plain HTTP proxies requiring username/password ("Basic") proxy authentication. OpenJDK does not allow this by default since Java 8u111; for details see [https://bugs.openjdk.java.net/browse/JDK-8210814 JDK-8210814]. | :This change was done mainly to facilitate tunneling HTTPS connections through plain HTTP proxies requiring username/password ("Basic") proxy authentication. OpenJDK does not allow this by default since Java 8u111; for details see [https://bugs.openjdk.java.net/browse/JDK-8210814 JDK-8210814]. | ||
| + | == Performance improvements == | ||
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| + | EGit 5.6.0 has gotten some big performance improvements "under the hood". It accesses git config files far less frequently than before (though there's still work to be done in that area), and the way the Eclipse workspace is refreshed after checking out files, for instance after a branch switch, has been tuned such that it should refresh only files actually modified. | ||
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| + | These changes are basically invisible in the UI but make the UI generally much snappier. Context menus open quicker, and refreshes should take much less time. | ||
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== Other Changes == | == Other Changes == | ||
| − | EGit 5.6 includes lots of less noticeable improvements in the UI, plus a number of bug fixes. The complete list of new features and bug fixes is available in the [https://projects.eclipse.org/projects/technology.egit/releases/5.6.0/ release notes]. | + | EGit 5.6.0 includes lots of less noticeable improvements in the UI, plus a number of bug fixes. The complete list of new features and bug fixes is available in the [https://projects.eclipse.org/projects/technology.egit/releases/5.6.0/ release notes]. |
= Contributors = | = Contributors = | ||
Revision as of 18:13, 11 October 2019
Contents
EGit
Preferences
There is a new preference and a changed default in the EGit preferences:
Pulling in Parallel
The default for the maximum number of parallel pulls has been changed from "1" (no parallelism) to "3". When you pull several repositories at once, EGit will newly by default use up to three threads to execute the git pull commands. This can be significantly faster than pulling one repository after another.
HTTP library
EGit 5.6.0 uses by default the Apache HTTP library for git operations over HTTP(S). The user can choose in the global EGit preferences whether to use the standard built-in HTTP client of Java or the Apache HTTP library.
- This change was done mainly to facilitate tunneling HTTPS connections through plain HTTP proxies requiring username/password ("Basic") proxy authentication. OpenJDK does not allow this by default since Java 8u111; for details see JDK-8210814.
Performance improvements
EGit 5.6.0 has gotten some big performance improvements "under the hood". It accesses git config files far less frequently than before (though there's still work to be done in that area), and the way the Eclipse workspace is refreshed after checking out files, for instance after a branch switch, has been tuned such that it should refresh only files actually modified.
These changes are basically invisible in the UI but make the UI generally much snappier. Context menus open quicker, and refreshes should take much less time.
Other Changes
EGit 5.6.0 includes lots of less noticeable improvements in the UI, plus a number of bug fixes. The complete list of new features and bug fixes is available in the release notes.
Contributors
The following X developers worked on this release:
<TBD: list of contributors, number>
See Also
See also the new features in JGit for additional information.