Eclipse EGit: Git Integration for Eclipse 5.5.0 Release Review

Features

• History: show diffs for merges in first-parent mode
• 549424 Add "show first parent only" button to the history view
• 438902 Add option to create light weight tags
• 389656 Github client: add events field to RepositoryHook
• 521783 Github client: add missing fields for GitHub push event

Usability enhancements

• History view: shorten view toolbar
• Change status bar label for repository view nodes
• Simplify wording of confirmation questions in dialogs
• 550292, 550293 Shorten confirmation messages for "reset hard" and "discard changes"
• 545044 Show current branch first in pull result dialog
• History: keep commit selected if branches to show change
• 549034 Suppress history for structural RepositoryTreeNodes
• 549618 Show standard message box on paste to repo view error
• 550082 Don't decorate ResourceMappings mapping only unshared resources
• 549206 Handle Java templates initialization error silently
• 545290 Bind F2 on repo node to rename of current branch
• 548495 Clear input of history view when repository is removed
• 549235 Log an error if the reflog cannot be read
• 549426 Don't log info about using Apache MINA sshd SSH client
• 549269 Staging View: put a "presentation" button in the unstaged viewer's toolbar
• Allow cancelling multi repository checkout
• Add command icons for
  • add submodule (repo view context menu)
  • replace with commit, branch, ref (resource context menu)
  • compare with commit, branch, ref (resource context menu)
• 548144 Reword commit dialog - Use verbs instead of OK
• 548170 Hide "Rebase sucessfull" dialog by default
• 548079 Improve reflog view updates

Performance improvements

• 548978 Speed up image decoration for remote branch nodes

Bug fixes

• 550513 Ensure staging view widgets get re-enabled
• 549612 Fix silent failure on conflicting checkout after branch creation.
• 548996 Log exception in create branch wizard
• Always check for merge commit when opening file diff
• 549812 Fix progress reporting for some commands
• Fix typos in localization
• 464949 Fix equals & hashCode of StashedCommitNode
• Fix a few instances where repositories are not closed
• Fix CommitFileDiffViewer/"Show in History" for non-resources
• Avoid duplicate entries in the history view's view history
• 360868 Fix showing selected refs or commits in history view
• 520735 Repositories view: check for submodules when reacting on selection
• Avoid repeatedly querying the ref database when getting the children of a BranchHierarchyNode
• 548158 Enable the "Switch To..." menu for submodule folders
• 548434 Fix NPE in RepositoriesViewPropertyTester
• 548534 Avoid NPE in FetchGerritChangePage
• BranchOperation: fix progress monitor handling
• 548368 Restore behavior of exception reporting during branch switch
• 537774 Github client: change mergeable in PullRequest to boolean

Build and release engineering

• Update Orbit to R20190827152740 (2019-09)
• 550094 Update Jetty to 9.4.20.v20190813
• 450485 Use https in update site URLs
• Delete outdated Orbit target platform definitions
• Fix deprecations caused by Instant based DirCacheEntry
• 549997 Remove duplicate configure fetch/push commands
• [releng] Update target platform & SystemReader to JGit changes
• Stabilize StageUnstageActionTest
• 549178 Simplify RepositoryUtils.mapCommitToRef()
• Replace deprecated getRefs() calls
• Unify bundle name placeholders
• BranchOperation: consistent use of MessageFormat
• Oomph setup: update and rotate API baselines
• Github client: add missing update site URL and name
• 548762 Github client: Use not deprecated hook test URL
• Github client: unify bundle name placeholders