4.2
Description
Features
- Support for symlinks in compare editor
- Improve auto-filling the repository URL from clipboard in clone wizard
- Make "Fetch from gerrit" trim input text
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Harmonize menus
- Remove the restriction on a single-element selection if selection belongs to one repository
- Enable more actions also for working sets(Push to Upstream, Fetch from Upstream, Pull, and Reset)
- Enable Team->Repository->Pull when file or folder is selected
- Git Repositories Dialog should give the repository filter text focus
- Do not wrap commit message footer lines
- Use available space in Rebase Interactive view
- Pre-select local branch if a commit is selected which multiple branches but only one local branch refer to
- Configurable date format used consistently throughout EGit, new preference page to configure date format
- Make the IgnoreOperation work for non-workspace files.
- Enable diff on double-click from staged area for non-workspace files
- Refresh status if a file outside the workspace was edited in Eclipse
- Allow to open external files in the editor directly from Staging view
- Make diff from staging view also work for files not in the workspace
GitHub Client
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Add the ReleaseEvent and its corresponding Payload
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Enable getting owners of an organization
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Implement starring API
Performance improvements
- Removed TreeIterators using Eclipse resource model, this improves status performance by factor 5-10 on Mac/Linux (observed no effect on Windows)
- Don't explicitly refresh Eclipse project when auto-sharing a project
Release engineering and build
- Use @Nullable annotations to aid detection of NPEs at design time
- Use shared license feature