New and Noteworthy 3.3

Features

• Add symlink support to JGit (Java 7 only, including newer Windows versions provided the user has SeCreateSymbolicLinkPrivilege).
• Abstraction for HTTP connections and alternate implementation using Apache HttpClient
• Use branch..mergeoptions and merge.ff as defaults for merging
• Support fetch.prune and remote..prune to set prune mode when fetching
• Add git checkout --orphan implementation
• Suppport the GIT_CONFIG_NOSYSTEM environment variable
• Include entries for directories for archive command
• Prepend a specified prefix to all entry filenames for archive command
• Add delete support to FS
• Ban dangerous ref names on Windows
• Allow programmatic remote configuration for PullCommand

Command Line

• Add option --millis / -m to debug-show-dir-cache command

Performance Improvements

• Use fileAttributes to get more attributes in one go on Java 7
• Non-Fast-Forward Ref-Updates: Omit isMergedInto() calls

Build and Release Engineering

• Update Kepler target platform to use Kepler SR2 orbit R-build
• Update Luna target platform to use Luna M5 orbit repository
• Update com.jcraft.jsch to 0.1.50
• Update commons-compress to 1.6
• Upgrade javaewah to version 0.7.9

Bug Fixes

6 Bugs and 0 enhancement requests were closed

Contributors

The following 15 developers worked on this release of JGit:

Axel Richard, Christian Halstrick, Colby Ranger, Dave Borowitz, James Yonan, Jonathan Nieder, Konrad Kügler, Matthias Sohn, Roberto Tyley, Robin Rosenberg, Robin Stocker, Sato Taichi, Shawn Pearce, Stefan Lay, Tomasz Zarna