JGit/New and Noteworthy/2.1

Garbage Collector for FileRepositories

JGit now provides an implementation for git gc for FileRepositories.

Updated Porcelain Commands

MergeCommand

• now supports "--squash" option

CheckoutCommand

• now passes modified files through result to the caller

Command Line

• new JGit command line command "show" for any object

Performance improvements

• performance of persisting Git index was improved
• handling of index state after merge/cherry-pick/rebase was improved which improves performance

Bug Fixes

14 Bugs and 1 enhancement requests were closed