New and Noteworthy 5.0

EGit

Features

• Built-in EGit integration for LFS

  • Register builtin LFS on startup. When EGit starts and the lfs bundle (org.eclipse.jgit.lfs) is available register the LFS implementation and check configuration.
  • Allow install (enablement) of LFS support in Preferences (global) and on the repository (local).
  • Apply smudge/clean filters where applicable and required.
  • LFS integration using built-in JGit lfs filters fully works when using Gerrit with lfs plugin using ssh protocol.
  • Authentication when transporting lfs objects over http still missing, this is tracked in JGit

•  Enable resource selection for launch variables

•  Allow cherry-picking a Gerrit change

•  Allow cherry-picking merge commits

•  Github API: Support diff/patch generation via the Github API

Usability

• Add tracing of low-level JSch log messages

• Natural sort for refs in FetchResultTable

• Allow shortcuts for Gitflow commands

•  Suggest complete repository path in NewRepositoryWizard

•  Natural sort for tags in CreateTagDialog

•  Show affected projects when deleting repository

•  Add support for the "*" as wildcard character in the staging view filter

•  Select repositories via double-click in RepositorySearchDialog

•  Update staging view on repository config changes

•  Remove some margins in staging view

Performance Improvements

• Use hash lookup for TreeViewers

• Ignore IndexChangedEvent if it originates from the same JGit process

•  Improve asynchronous Eclipse workspace refreshes done by EGit

• Speed up the RepositoriesViewContentProvider

• Use PathFilterGroup instead of PathFilter if possible. TreeWalks looking for a single path can use PathFilterGroup instead of PathFilter. This should be a little bit faster.

• In EGit use mmap to map git packfiles into memory. Avoids allocating JGit buffer cache on the Java heap.

Bug Fixes

21 Bugs and 8 enhancement requests were closed

• Fix AssumeUnchangedOperation not working on directory/project

• Don't try to store incomplete credentials in secure store

•  Improve check for uncommitted changes before cherry-pick

•  Respect gitattributes in the compare editor

•  Fix Repositories view blocking Eclipse on startup

•  improve branch name validation performance which was bad for big repositories

•  Fix substring matches in filter in branch selection dialogs

•  Handle Gerrit Change-Ids for merge commits

•  Keep Gerrit Change-Id for conflicting cherry-pick

•  Remove problem characters from task related branch name suggestion

•  Fix invalid thread access in staging view when config changes

•  Don't try to store incomplete credentials in secure store

•  Github API: Fix Repository.getWatchers(); add Repository.getStars()

Removal of deprecated methods

• Remove deprecated UIUtils#applyHyperlinkDetectorStyleRanges and #getHyperlinkDetectorStyleRanges.
• Remove deprecated InitOperation constructor. Use InitOperation#InitOperation(Repository, InitParameters) instead.
• Remove deprecated GitFlowOperation#fetch(IProgressMonitor). Use GitFlowOperation#fetch(IProgressMonitor, int) instead.
• Remove deprecated FeatureTrackOperation constructor. Use FeatureTrackOperation#FeatureTrackOperation(GitFlowRepository, Ref, int) instead.
• Remove deprecated GitSynchronizeData#getSrcRemoteName
• Remove deprecated GitSynchronizeData#getSrcMerge
• Remove deprecated RepositoryMapping#getSubmoduleRepository. Use #getMapping(IResource) and then #getRepository()} on the returned mapping instead; it will return a submodule repository if the resource is in one.
• Remove deprecated RemoveFromIndexOperation(Repository, IResource[]). Use #RemoveFromIndexOperation(Collection) instead.
• Remove deprecated IgnoreOperation#IgnoreOperation(IResource[]). Use #IgnoreOperation(Collection) instead.
• Github API: Remove deprecated WatcherService. Use StargazerService instead.
• Github API: Remove deprecated User#getGravatarId and #setGravatarId
• Github API: Remove deprecated Repository#getMasterBranch and #setMasterBranch
• Github API: Remove deprecated Gist#setUser and #getUser methods

Build and Release Engineering

• Update to latest Photon Orbit R20180606145124

• Update EGit license to EPL-2.0

• Update target platform to use Orbit R20180531190352

•  Update API baseline in Oomph setup

Contributors

The following 5 developers worked on this release:

Christian Barcenas, Markus Duft, Matthias Sohn, Michael Keppler, Thomas Wolf