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JGit/New and Noteworthy/4.0

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Revision as of 15:47, 8 June 2015 by Matthias.sohn.sap.com (Talk | contribs) (→‎Build and release engineering)

JGit

Update to Java 7

  • Update minimum required Java version from Java 5 to Java 7
  • Remove bundles org.eclipse.jgit.console and org.eclipse.jgit.java7 which are no longer needed due to update to Java 7
  • Implement AutoClosable and use it to ensure resource held by JGit get released when they are no longer needed

API cleanup

  • Replace release() methods by close() to support AutoClosable
  • Delete some deprecated classes and methods, details are available in Clirr API change report
  • ObjectReader: remove the walkAdvice API

Configuration

  • Remove the gitprefix logic and rework detecting Git system config file
  • Allow to manually set the path to the Git system config file
  • Add fsck.allowInvalidPersonIdent to accept invalid author/committers

Protocol

  • Add support for quiet capability to ReceivePack
  • Support agent= capability in wire protocol

Hooks

  • Support for the commit-msg hook

Misc. Enhancements

  • Allow ObjectWalk to be filtered by an arbitrary predicate
  • Use ANY_DIFF filter in ResolveMerger for bare repositories
  • ObjectWalk: make setRetainBody(false) the default
  • Make MyersDiff interruptible
  • Support --untracked-files in command line status command
  • Support "--long" option in DescribeCommand and command line describe command
  • Make s3 domain dynamic to support different s3 regions in AmazonS3 transport
  • Allow public access to PackIndex
  • Enhance ArchiveCommand to allow passing options to underlying stream

Introduce logging

  • Use slf4j API to enable logging in JGit
  • Use log4j-slf4j to log from org.eclipse.jgit.pgm

Performance Improvements

  • Optimize EolAwareOutputStream for bulk output
  • Buffer TemporaryBuffer's overflow output stream used by ResolveMerger to improve performance
  • RevWalk: Discard uninteresting commits unless RevSort.BOUNDARY

Build and release engineering

  • Update build to use eclipse-jarsigner-plugin 1.1.2
  • Update build to use Tycho 0.23.0
  • Update all standard maven plugins to latest versions
  • Update to Jetty 9.2.10
  • Update to javax.servlet 3.1
  • Added more reports to Maven site

Bug Fixes

? Bugs and ? enhancement requests were closed

Contributors

The following ?? developers worked on this release of JGit:

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