EGit/New and Noteworthy/5.1

EGit

Features

• bug 339796 History table: let the user define which columns are shown
• bug 529850 Github client: Get user's teams across GitHub organizations

Usability

• bug 538322 Allow horizontal space in file:// URIishs in GitUrlChecker
• bug 536205 Restrict visibility of Gitflow menu items
• bug 538505 Focus file list in commit editor
• bug 537931 Commit editor: Abbreviate parent SHA-1 with 7 characters
• Reorder reflog view context menu
• bug 538490 Icon for "Stash Changes..." menu
• bug 538502 Have ellipsis at "Create patch" menu
• bug 538488 Sort upstream branch configuration case insensitive
• Focus default button in PullResultDialog
• Radio button style configuration selection of repository properties
• bug 537200 [staging] use icons for author and committer
• bug 537690 Sort branches before tags in pull result dialog
• bug 537482 Use multi-line text fields for merge and rebase result dialogs
• bug 537672 Commit Editor: use proper create branch and create tag icons
• bug 536324 Handle cancellation of rename detection
• bug 537181 History table: adapt column widths when view size changes
• bug 536863 - No feedback on "Import changed projects"
• Add 2 missing icons for cherry-pick and rename branch entrie in reflog
• bug 536799 Disable "Compare with previous" for deletions
• Mark more jobs as system or user
• bug 463906 Better default editor opening for file revisions
• bug 536360 Sort decoration variables alphabetically
• bug 535577 Normalize tag name when typing
• bug 536236 Move clean menu item before garbage collect menu item
• bug 536097 Set RepositoryPropertyPage zero pixel margin
• bug 535678 Improve share wizard window title
• bug 536204 Sort gerrit remote refs naturally
• bug 535742 History view: Activate compare mode by default
• bug 535160 Reveal newly created entry in configuration editor
• bug 533596 Do not display "[NO-HEAD]" for empty repository
  • Complete the hovers in the history view
  • On the commit ID column, display the full SHA1 and the short commit message.
• On the message column, display the short message if not over a ref.
• bug 535171 FetchGerritChangePage: automatic content-assist on paste
• bug 537469 Add missing blank in github wizard labels

Performance Improvements

• Avoid more UI freezes in ReflogView: redraw once only
• Avoid UI blocks in ReflogView
• bug 536814 Use an asynchronous lightweight decorator in the repositories view
• bug 485743 Avoid that loading the history blocks updating the commit table
• bug 440588, bug 485743 Git history page: move expensive operations in the background
• Computing the file diffs
• Preparing to load the history
• bug 535950 Batch resource refreshes
• bug 535856 Speed up staging view tree viewer management
• Reload commit info in history only if selection really changed

Bug Fixes

• bug 538855 Don't log an error on save in comparisons if resource out of sync
• bug 538846 Don't auto-refresh projects with missing .project file
• Gitflow: Fix that EGit allowed starting features with diverging develop branches
• Fix Findbugs RV_NEGATING_RESULT_OF_COMPARETO
• bug 538492 Fix NPE in git model synchronization
• bug 537959 Fix layout and title in CommitSelectionDialog
• bug 537937 Replace PlotWalk usage by RevWalk
• Fix comparison of SWTCommit to detect changed selection
• bug 537813 Avoid refresh on up-to-date pull operation
• bug 537900 Remove "Change-Id" line properly on CR-LF operating systems
• bug 537492 Fix filter in reflog view
• bug 537790 Ensure that JSch knows HostKeyAlgorithms ssh-rsa and ssh-dss
• bug 537331 Hide $GIT_DIR and friends from JGit
• Fix wrapping label in DateFormatPreferencePage
• bug 536880 Ensure IProjects are not refreshed via IFile handles
• bug 536799 Fix "Compare with Previous" in history view and commit editor outline
• bug 536471 Fix error marker updates in staging view
• bug 533019 Staging view: update author/committer on config changes
• bug 536472 Do not refresh projects that use a PessimisticResourceRuleFactory
• bug 536357 Fix history preference page field editor layout
• bug 533005 Disable commit buttons immediately on committing
• bug 536356 Fix DatePreferencePage which did not wrap explanation label
• bug 536240 Fix sort order in Staging view
• bug 535749 Fix StagingView which wrongly sorted by state initially
• bug 532940 History search: use CSS for text field background color
• bug 535796 Fix CommitUI.getSelectedFiles()
• bug 531489 Add version tag prefix for closing gitflow hotfix

Build and Release Engineering

• Fixed: GitFlow test launch config: Added missing dependencies
• Update Orbit 2018-09 to R20180905201904
• bug 538414 Use new TPD update site
• Update Photon orbit repository to R20180606145124
• Update to spotbugs 3.1.6
• Organize OSGi manifests
• Update Jetty to 9.4.11.v20180605
• Update org.apache.httpcomponents.httpclient to 4.5.5.v20180409-1525
• Update org.apache.httpcomponents.httpcore to 4.4.9.v20180409-1525
• Fix validation errors for all target platforms
• [releng] Update Oomph API baseline
• Update Maven plugins
  • eclipse-jarsigner-plugin 1.1.5
  • jboss repository-utils 1.1.0
  • maven-pmd-plugin 3.10.0
  • maven-resources-plugin 3.1.0
  • spotbugs-maven-plugin 3.1.3.1
• Upgrade Tycho to 1.2.0

Contributors

The following 7 developers worked on this release:

David Pursehouse, Luís Copetti, Mat Booth, Matthias Sohn, Max Hohenegger, Michael Keppler, Thomas Wolf