New and Noteworthy 3.6

EGit

Features

History View

• New context menu "import changed projects" to import projects changed in the selected commit

Repositories View

• Add "Open With" menu for workspace files

Staging View

• Checkout ours/theirs for files having conflicts

GitHub Connector

• No new features

Usability Improvements

• Handle symlink icon in staging view
• Add new wizard banners
• Improved icons for remote commands
• Link Interactive Rebase view with selected repository
• Show branch name and status besides repository in Git Staging view
• In the History view timestamps are now displayed in local time

Tracing

• Add tracing for selection handling
• Register dynamic tracing options on tracing preference page

Release Engineering and Build

• Update Tycho to 0.21
• Add target platform for Mars using Orbit S-build

Bug Fixes

28 Bugs and 7 enhancement requests were closed

The JGit patches fixing CVE-2014-9390 released in JGit 3.4.2 and 3.5.3 are also included in 3.6.0.

Contributors

The following 16 developers worked on this release:

Andrey Loskutov, Arthur Daussy, Axel Richard, Christian Halstrick, Laurent Goubet, Matthias Sohn, Michael Keppler, Mickael Istria, Reiner Hille-Doering, Robin Stocker, Stephen Elsemore, Tobias Melcher, Tomasz Zarna, Vadim Dmitriev, Wim Jongman, Radim Hopp