EGit/New and Noteworthy/5.0

EGit

Features

• Built-in EGit integration for LFS
  • Register builtin LFS on startup. When EGit starts and the lfs bundle (org.eclipse.jgit.lfs) is available register the LFS implementation and check configuration.
  • Allow install (enablement) of LFS support in Preferences (global) and on the repository (local).
  • Apply smudge/clean filters where applicable and required.
  • LFS integration using built-in JGit lfs filters fully works when using Gerrit with lfs plugin using ssh protocol.
  • Authentication when transporting lfs objects over http still missing, this is tracked in JGit bug 535814
• bug 534604 Enable resource selection for launch variables
• bug 533344 Allow cherry-picking a Gerrit change
• bug 531953 Allow cherry-picking merge commits
• bug 529255 Github API: Support diff/patch generation via the Github API

Usability

• Add tracing of low-level JSch log messages
• Natural sort for refs in FetchResultTable
• Allow shortcuts for Gitflow commands
• bug 534404 Suggest complete repository path in NewRepositoryWizard
• bug 529449 Natural sort for tags in CreateTagDialog
• bug 478159 Show affected projects when deleting repository
• bug 510132 Add support for the "*" as wildcard character in the staging view filter
• bug 511628 Select repositories via double-click in RepositorySearchDialog
• bug 533019 Update staging view on repository config changes
• bug 532458 Remove some margins in staging view

Performance Improvements

• bug 535516 Use hash lookup for TreeViewers
• Ignore IndexChangedEvent if it originates from the same JGit process
• bug 500106 Improve asynchronous Eclipse workspace refreshes done by EGit
• Speed up the RepositoriesViewContentProvider
• Use PathFilterGroup instead of PathFilter if possible. TreeWalks looking for a single path can use PathFilterGroup instead of PathFilter. This should be a little bit faster.
• In EGit use mmap to map git packfiles into memory. Avoids allocating JGit buffer cache on the Java heap.

Bug Fixes

21 Bugs and 8 enhancement requests were closed

• bug 529141 Fix AssumeUnchangedOperation not working on directory/project
• bug 525769 Don't try to store incomplete credentials in secure store
• bug 470452 Improve check for uncommitted changes before cherry-pick
• bug 520693 Respect gitattributes in the compare editor
• bug 533230 Fix Repositories view blocking Eclipse on startup
• bug 533198 improve branch name validation performance which was bad for big repositories
• bug 533477 Fix substring matches in filter in branch selection dialogs
• bug 358206 Handle Gerrit Change-Ids for merge commits
• bug 533336 Keep Gerrit Change-Id for conflicting cherry-pick
• bug 531171 Remove problem characters from task related branch name suggestion
• bug 533019 Fix invalid thread access in staging view when config changes
• bug 525769 Don't try to store incomplete credentials in secure store
• bug 534440 Github API: Fix Repository.getWatchers(); add Repository.getStars()

Removal of deprecated methods

• Remove deprecated UIUtils#applyHyperlinkDetectorStyleRanges and #getHyperlinkDetectorStyleRanges.
• Remove deprecated InitOperation constructor. Use InitOperation#InitOperation(Repository, InitParameters) instead.
• Remove deprecated GitFlowOperation#fetch(IProgressMonitor). Use GitFlowOperation#fetch(IProgressMonitor, int) instead.
• Remove deprecated FeatureTrackOperation constructor. Use FeatureTrackOperation#FeatureTrackOperation(GitFlowRepository, Ref, int) instead.
• Remove deprecated GitSynchronizeData#getSrcRemoteName
• Remove deprecated GitSynchronizeData#getSrcMerge
• Remove deprecated RepositoryMapping#getSubmoduleRepository. Use #getMapping(IResource) and then #getRepository()} on the returned mapping instead; it will return a submodule repository if the resource is in one.
• Remove deprecated RemoveFromIndexOperation(Repository, IResource[]). Use #RemoveFromIndexOperation(Collection) instead.
• Remove deprecated IgnoreOperation#IgnoreOperation(IResource[]). Use #IgnoreOperation(Collection) instead.
• Github API: Remove deprecated WatcherService. Use StargazerService instead.
• Github API: Remove deprecated User#getGravatarId and #setGravatarId
• Github API: Remove deprecated Repository#getMasterBranch and #setMasterBranch
• Github API: Remove deprecated Gist#setUser and #getUser methods

Build and Release Engineering

• Update to latest Photon Orbit R20180606145124
• bug 530393 Update EGit license to EPL-2.0
• Update target platform to use Orbit R20180531190352
• bug 532272 Update API baseline in Oomph setup

Contributors

The following 5 developers worked on this release:

Christian Barcenas, Markus Duft, Matthias Sohn, Michael Keppler, Thomas Wolf