Features
- Support pulling remote branches to apply them on detached HEAD (Bug 485396).
- Support multiple ICommitMessageProvider implementations (Bug 376388)
Usability Improvements
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Use action verbs as button label
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Change confirm hard reset dialog Yes- and No-button label (Bug 514470)
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Change discard local changes dialog OK-button label
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Use verbs in PullResultDialog instead of OK (Bug 514320)
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- Set focus when context menu in staging view appears
- Adds mnemonics to the buttons in the git staging view
- Make double click on a staging view folder node expand it
- Improve progress reporting for submodules
- Open the clone wizard when a git URL is dropped anywhere on Eclipse (Bug 513247)
- Non-blocking content-assist in FetchGerritChangePage (Bug 515733)
- Refactor and simplify FetchGerritChangePage, remove foreground execution option (Bug 496493)
- Improve pasting into Change field in FetchGerritChangePage
- Give the tag field in FetchGerritChangePage a BranchNameNormalizer
- Expand/collapse folder nodes in DiffEditorOutline on double click
- Improve branch name field in FetchGerritChangePage
- Add a BranchNameNormalizer to the PushBranchPage (Bug 515279)
- Adds mnemonics to the buttons in the git staging view (Bug 515040)
- Add mnemonic to "Continue" button in "Running Launch" dialog (Bug 514480)
Performance Improvements
- Avoid multiple tree-walks in model-aware git synchronizations (Bug 516358)
- Throttle updates of the EclipseGitProgressTransformer (Bug 516276)
Build and Release Engineering
- Update jetty to 9.4.5
- Update maven plugins
- Update Oomph setup
- Update Orbit dependencies to the Oxygen version R20170516192513
Bug Fixes
- Don't auto-share for closed projects or for bare repositories
- Prevent NoWorkTreeException in GitProjectData (Bug 517056)
- Fix NPE in RepositorySelectionPage (Bug 517044)
- Remove many default handlers (Bug 495064)
- CommitEditor: fix check-out button display (Bug 516679)
- Fix synchronize with deleted resources (Bug 516426)
- Fix node selection in AbstractBranchSelectionDialog (Bug 516411)
- Workaround for HiDPI line number rulers on macOS retina (Bug 516322)
- Look for core_defaultRepositoryDir in all preference scopes (Bug 496737)
- Fix NPE in SubmoduleUpdateCommand (Bug 514936)
- SpellCheckingMessageArea cleanup & prevent NPE when spellcheck disabled (Bug 515999)
- Workaround to enable linking multiple resources to HistoryView (Bug 392948)
- Make HyperlinkTokenScanner more robust (Bug 515730)
- Load the reflog view asynchronously (Bug 515606)
- Fix representation toggle commands in the repositories view (Bug 495064)
- Update EGit state when only FETCH_HEAD changes (Bug 437362)
- Don't decorate when the workspace is not yet ready. (Bug 515994)
- Add a sanity check against misbehaving IAdaptables (Bug 515993)
- Fix "checkout" used as a verb to "check out"
Release Date:
Wednesday, June 28, 2017
This release is part of Eclipse Oxygen.
Review:
Release Type:
Minor release