JGit/New and Noteworthy/2.0

New Porcelain Commands

StashApplyCommand

• Provides applying the changes in a stashed commit to the local working directory and index

StashCreateCommand

• Provides support to stash the index and working directory changes in a commit stored in refs/stash

StashDropCommand

• Provides support for dropping a stashed commit

ApplyCommand

• Provides applying patches on a git index file and a working tree.

Updated Porcelain Commands

CloneCommand

• Supports autosetuprebase

CheckoutCommand

• Supports "all paths" option. This will perform the equivalent of running a git checkout -- . at the root of a repository

Other Features

• Support for git configuration parameters url.insteadOf and url.pushInsteadOf supporting URL rewriting, e.g.

  [url "mirror1.example.org:/pub/git/"]
    insteadOf = mirror1.example.org:/pub/git/core/

• Support to write tests with git command line syntax
• Enable large file support to add files with size over 2 GB.
• DirCheckout now validates paths to detect malformed, potentially malicious tree entries
• Add commit --all switch to jgit command line interface
• Add config --list command to jgit command line interface
• core.autocrlf support fixed, it defaults to false but is no longer set explicitly when a new repository is created
• Cleaned up exceptions in org.eclipse.jgit.api, see bug 366914
• Clirr API change report listing API changes between 1.3 and 2.0 will be published on the JGit download page
• New features org.eclipse.jgit.pgm and org.eclipse.jgit.pgm.source to provision the JGit command line interface bundle via the EGit p2 repository.

Performance improvements

• Performance of reading git configuration files was improved
• Handling of smudged index entries was improved in order to improve git index performance

Bug Fixes

20 Bugs and 8 enhancement requests were closed