EGit/New and Noteworthy/5.8

EGit

Diff Viewer

The outline view of the diff viewer has now a toolbar:

There's a button to collapse all folders, and a button to toggle the presentation from a flat folder list to a hierarchical display.

When clicked, the content is shown using nested folders.

Additionally, the diff viewer now also has a "quick outline" that can be opened with the standard keybinding Ctrl/Cmd-O.

TODO:

• Repositories View
  • Tag filtering; describe pattern syntax (substring, wildcards allowed, ^ and $ anchors; #<number>)

• Cloning
  • Can select a git bundle file to clone from.

• API
  • org.eclipse.egit.ui.RepositoriesViewClone command newly has a command parameter "repositoryUri". The value should be a string containing a clone URI. The command opens the clone wizard, if repositoryUri is set, it is used to pre-fill the dialog from the given clone URI. If the value cannot be parsed as a URI, it is silently ignored.

Other Changes

EGit 5.8 includes lots of less noticeable improvements in the UI, plus a number of bug fixes. The complete list of new features and bug fixes is available in the release notes.

Contributors

The following X developers worked on this release:

<TBD: list of contributors, number>

See Also

See also the new features in JGit for additional information.