New and Noteworthy 2.0

New Porcelain Commands

• Provides applying the changes in a stashed commit to the local working directory and index

• Provides support to stash the index and working directory changes in a commit stored in refs/stash

• Provides support for dropping a stashed commit

• Provides applying patches on a git index file and a working tree.

Updated Porcelain Commands

• Supports

• Supports "all paths" option. This will perform the equivalent of running a at the root of a repository

Other Features

• Support for git configuration parameters and supporting URL rewriting, e.g.

  [url "mirror1.example.org:/pub/git/"]
    insteadOf = mirror1.example.org:/pub/git/core/

• Support to write tests with git command line syntax

• Enable large file support to add files with size over 2 GB.

• now validates paths to detect malformed, potentially malicious tree entries

• Add switch to jgit command line interface

• Add command to jgit command line interface

• support fixed, it defaults to false but is no longer set explicitly when a new repository is created

• Cleaned up exceptions in , see bug 366914

• Clirr API change report listing API changes between 1.3 and 2.0 will be published on the JGit download page

• New features and to provision the JGit command line interface bundle via the EGit p2 repository.

Performance improvements

• Performance of reading git configuration files was improved
• Handling of smudged index entries was improved in order to improve git index performance

Bug Fixes

20 Bugs and 8 enhancement requests were closed