New and Noteworthy 4.5

EGit

Features

• Staging view: Fix expansion problems and provide auto selection support.
• Check for running launches before modifying the workspace before checkout, pull, rebase, interactive rebase, merge, reset --hard, replace with, cherry-pick
• GitHistoryPage: move the search widget into the toolbar
• Auto-stage selected files on "Commit..." when staging view is used
• Added context menu support for nested repositories.
• Immediate user feedback on failed push background jobs
• Push to Gerrit in a background job
• Allow to cancel the deletion of branches operation
• Avoid opening dialogs from push/fetch background jobs
• Recompute index diff (git status) on project deletions
• Polish the UI of the rebase interactive view
• Open the smart import wizard if available (Eclipse 4.6 or higher).
• Keyboard shortcuts for the rebase interactive view
• Do not show "Rebase was aborted" dialog if the user pressed abort
• [blame] Don’t open the History view automatically when showing annotations
• Suppress bare repositories in RepositorySearchDialog
• Make columns in Gitflow feature checkout dialog sortable

Performance

• Speed up the IgnoreOperation
• Speed up context menu in staging view
• More efficient label provider for the staging view
• Improve performance of StagingView a little

Releng

• Update and improve Oomph setup for setting up Eclipse for JGit/EGit contributors.
• Documented automated developer setup for JGit/EGit contributors

Bug Fixes

32 Bugs and 5 enhancement requests were closed

Contributors

The following 16 developers worked on this release:

Andre Bossert, Andrey Loskutov, Brandon Dong, Christian Halstrick, David Pursehouse, Ed Merks, Lars Vogel, Laurent Delaigue, Marc-Andre Laperle, Matthias Sohn, Max Hohenegger, Michael Keppler, Stephen Elsemore, Thomas Wolf, Tobias Baumann, Tobias Hein