JGit/New and Noteworthy/3.6

JGit

Features

• Ignore rule parser was reimplemented to support ** wildcard patterns, negation rules and improve performance
• Add "aggressive" option to GC
• GarbageCollectCommand now supports DfsRepository
• Support for Submodule configuration submodule.<name>.ignore
• Support for new submodule repository layout (.git/modules of the super project contains the submodule repositories)
• InitCommand support for option "--separate-git-dir" to store .git meta data directory in a separate directory
• CloneCommand support to store .git meta data directory in a separate directory
• Permission bits for "executable" attribute are now set according to the umask on Posix/Java7
• BundleWriter now supports including HEAD in bundle
• New config parameter core.trustfolderstat

JGit Command Line

• Add option --bare to clone command
• Add options --heads and --tags to ls-remote command

Performance Improvements

• Reimplemented ignore rule parser to improve performance of ignore rule evaluation
• Enhance SubmoduleWalk with a fast check whether a repo contains submodules

Build and Release Engineering

• The java7 feature is now included in org.eclipse.jgit.feature
• Maven site generation for jgit

Bug Fixes

11 Bugs and 0 enhancement requests were closed

The patches fixing CVE-2014-9390 released in JGit 3.4.2 and 3.5.3 are also included in 3.6.0.

Contributors

The following 11 developers worked on this release of JGit:

Andrey Loskutov, Axel Richard, Christian Halstrick, Dani Megert, Marc Strapetz, Matthias Sohn, Michael Keppler, Robin Stocker, Shawn Pearce, Stefan Beller, Yuxuan 'fishy' Wang