New and Noteworthy 4.7

EGit

Features

• Sort branches by name in ref content assist
• Fetch from Gerrit: checkout branch after resolving checkout conflicts
• Prevent creation of invalid git config keys
• Don't use 3 way compare if the common ancestor is same as one side
• Added branch normalizer to branch rename dialog
• Normalize the branch name in the CreateBranchWizard
• Enable importing multiple projects from working tree
• Improve sorting of FileDiffs
• Staging view should react on editor activation
• Improve reporting from background fetch and push jobs
• Remove double border of CommitMessageArea in staging view
• Give the PushResultDialog an image.
• Display logical line numbers in DiffEditorPage
• Provide a way to configure RepositoryChangeScanner interval
• RepositoryChangeScanner should not query all repos if UI is not active

Cleanup

• Cleanup progress monitor management throughout EGit
• Cleanup duplicate code: Unify saving in preference pages
• Cleanup duplicate code: Unify pattern creation for content assist
• Cleanup duplicate code: Unify scheduling of merge jobs
• Cleanup duplicate code: Unify branch/ref content assist handling
• Cleanup of defaultHandlers

Build and Release Engineering

• Upgrade maven plugins
• Update target platform to jetty 9.3.17.v20170317
• Update com.jcraft.jsch to 0.1.54
• Update build to use Tycho 1.0.0
• Add missing dependency to org.slf4j to org.eclipse.egit.ui
• Update Orbit to S20170306214312
• Add org.eclipse.jgit.junit feature to test classpath of ui tests

Bug Fixes

18 Bugs and 2 enhancement requests were closed

Contributors

The following 10 developers worked on this release:

Andrey Loskutov, David Weiser, David Pursehouse, Jaxsun McCarthy Huggan, Matthias Sohn, Michael Keppler, Ralf M Petter, Simon Delisle, Thomas Wolf, Wim Jongman