Eclipse EGit: Git Integration for Eclipse 3.5.0 Release Review

New Features

Interactive Rebase View

• Make commit order in the interactive rebase view configurable
• Add context menu for plan modification
• Allow to move multiple commits by drag & drop

Stash Support

• Add "Stashes" menu to Team context menu and toolbar
• Add stash commit viewer
• Optimize layouts of Commit and Stash Viewer

History View

• Add support for cherry-picking multiple commits at once.
• Use separate diff viewer instead of embedding into message
• Add menu action for deleting tags
• Support searching for branches/tags with find toolbar
• Track renamed paths and provide to actions
• Enable Create Patch for first commit in the history view
• Add support for reverting multiple commits at once

Miscellaneous

• Offer interactive and preserve merges options when selecting rebase target
• Github connector: PullRequest supports the review_comments field

Usability Improvements

Expose important actions in additional menus

• Add team menu on working sets
• Add "Repository" submenu in Team menu of files and folders
• Add "Show Annotations" to ruler menu of revision editor

Sorting of lists

• Repositories View
  • Sort tags in natural order
  • Sort folders before files in working dir
• Staging view: sort content by name if file names are shown first

Commit Dialog

• Add "Select for Commit" to files context menu
• Replace help button with link to Staging view

Cherry-pick

• Show a rebase result dialog if cherry-picking fails.
• Provide more context in cherry-pick confirmation dialog

Push

• Improve simple push wizard
• Simple push wizard links to advanced push wizard
• When "Commit and Push" opens a wizard, use simple push wizard
• Push Branch: Don't suggest branch name of local upstream branch
• Assist in Push dialog and allow to push to custom refs
• Reverse src/dest order of push result dialog

Performance Improvements

• Improved performance of staging view on large repositories / working directories
• In staging view don't reload repository on selection if current repository is same as selected
• Use faster method of setting styles for commit message viewer