Eclipse EGit: Git Integration for Eclipse 4.0.0

Features

• Extend EGit to support git-flow to automate git branching workflow
• Introduce internal API to integrate Team merging to prepare support for model merge
• New project import wizard for invoking automated project import
• Prevent Git Staging view to lose data when precommit hook aborts commit
• Show message dialog when hook aborts commit
• Java templates variables for Git config variables

Usability improvements

• Sort branches in "Push to Gerrit" wizard case insensitive
• Automatic wildcard matching in "Add Git repositories" dialog
• Make PushResultDialog non-modal
• Properly style PushResultDialog in dark theme
• Fix styling of staging view and commit dialog for dark theme
• Add interactive rebase tooltip descriptions
• Raise warning if second line of commit message isn't empty
• Add sash to PushResultTable to allow resizing text field used to display push message
• Avoid blinking cursor in merge result dialog
• Accept git clone command as URI in clone wizard
• Close commit editor after deleting stash
• Consider different users and repo suffixes in project import
• Make welcome page contribution more consistent

Performance improvements

• Use image descriptors cache for external programs
• Optimizations for GitResourceDeltaVisitor visit()
• Fix ResourceUtil performance on big repositories/workspaces
• Allow to switch the branch sequence off in the commit message viewer

Build and release engineering

• Update minimum required Java version to Java 7
• Update build to use eclipse-jarsigner-plugin 1.1.2
• Update to Jetty 9.2.10
• Update to javax.servlet 3.1
• Oomph configuration to setup Eclipse for EGit contributors
• Update build to use Tycho 0.23.0

Fixes

• Fixed many errors reported by the automated error reporter
• Avoid deadlocks during resource changes in AutoShareProjects
• Don't let timestamps depend on the timer resolution
• Fix ConfigureGerrit Task to respect http.sslVerify config parameter
• Use try-with-resource to avoid resource leaks
• Fix behavior of EGit when repo is a symlink