EGit/New and Noteworthy/3.4

EGit

Features

• Add ability to edit a commit directly from the history view.
• Add ability to reword a commit directly from the history view.
• Enable creating a new git repository in a non-empty folder
• Honor "branch.<name>.mergeoptions" to set merge defaults
• Add a flag in the create stash dialog to allow including untracked changes in a stash
• Enable staging view for submodule repositories
• Add compare mode to CompareTreeView
• Provide extensibility for suggesting branch names

Usability

• Fix Package Explorer text colors on dark theme
• Interactive Rebase View: Action buttons toggle
• Provide an option to fetch from Gerrit without checking out the branch
• Provide "Show in History" in toolbar of commit viewer
• Store the commit message edited in staging view on Eclipse shutdown
• Allow to disable logical model from preferences
• Use more space-efficient labels on commits with multiple tags in history view
• Warn when switching branches and a launch is running for the repo
• Show dialog if there are uncommitted changes on pull with rebase strategy
• Show first line of commit message in editor tooltip of commit viewer
• Double click on commit in interactive rebase view opens Commit Viewer
• Offer to reset to a reflog entry via the context menu in reflog view
• Enable "Push to Upstream" when default remote has push spec
• Pre-fill branch name of upstream config if available in "Push Branch" dialog
• Allow to move multiple commits simultaneously in interactive rebase view
• Open workspace version from context menu of the compare editor
• Check for uncommitted changes before rewording commits.
• Check for uncommitted changes before squashing commits.
• Don't ask for merge mode per default when opening merge tool
• Allow canceling the commit operation after save-during-commit
• Sort refs in the 'Switch To' menu in natural order

Performance Improvements

• Only fetch when synchronizing with remote-tracking branch
• Only sample the progress when computing the compare tree view
• Accelerate calculation of content of CompareTreeView.

Build and Release Engineering

• Update Luna target platform to Orbit release R20140525021250
• Update build to use Tycho 0.20.0
• Add script to create EGit release

Bug Fixes

72 Bugs and 14 enhancement requests were closed

Contributors

The following zz developers worked on this release: