Eclipse EGit: Git Integration for Eclipse 5.7.0 Release Review

Features

• 558980 Provide a public adapter factory for IHistoryPageSource. This facilitates third-party bundles showing a git history determined by objects unknown to EGit.
• 550673 [repo view] Add compare commands. Allow comparing two branches/tags as in the history view, using the older commit as base.
• 558561 Create branch from repository group
• [diff editor] Enable "Save As..." on unified diffs
• 544510 [rebase interactive view] Add "Show Unified Diff" command
• 544510 [reflog view] Add "Show Unified Diff" command
• 544510 [history view] Add a new "Show Unified Diff" command
• 544510 Make the job to compute a unified diff in the background public
• 544510 Extract a stand-alone DiffEditor
• 544510 Eliminate NestedContentOutlinePage
• 544510 Extract DiffEditorInput
• 558561 Switch branch from repository group
• 558561 Pull from repository group
• 451817 CommitMessageEditorDialog: allow clients to specify button labels
• 345466 CommitSelectionDialog: Offer search functionality
• 558649 Github client: Milestone creation needs a special DTO

Usability Improvements

• 553501 [repo view] Expand repository group when a repository is assigned
• 441940 Dynamic label for Push to/Fetch from Upstream
• 560410 Sort files case insensitive in diff editor and outline
• [history] Icon for "Compare with Each Other"
• [repo view] Border for inline renaming of groups
• Shorten cancel the commit message
• 558538 Gitflow start operations should support branch name normalization.
• [ref filters] Keyboard activation for editing filters
• 553841 [repo view] Simpler refresh, better decorator setup, simpler listeners
• 558003 Make "Updating file differences of commit..." a system job

Performance Improvements

• 560528 Startup: Call FS.FileStoreAttributes.setBackground directly to avoid loading unnecessary FS related classes
• 546455 [repo view] Single Ref cache for content provider and decorator

Bug Fixes

• 493952 Fix: Gitflow Publish is silent on failure.
• 558496 [repo view] Work-around for SWT regression on GTK
• [ref filters] Prevent exception on canceling the dialog
• 558336 Fix false positive Error on Gitflow Branch Creation.
• 558360 Staging View: fix title label updates
• 558323 [deco cache] Reset BranchStatus cache on ConfigChangedEvent
• [repo view] Re-set uiTask to null atomically when run
• 558012 Fix parent of LoginDialog

Build and Release Engineering

• 559533 Use 2 GB heap in Egit Oomph setup
• Add 4.14 and 4.15-staging target platforms
• Update Orbit to R20200224183213 for 2020-03
• [releng] Update year in copyright notices for features & branding
• 560438 Add Orbit version used in target platform to EGit repository
• 559526 Replaced TokenizedPattern from ant with PathMatcher from jgit. This allows us to remove dependency from egit.ui to org.apache.ant bundle.
• Oomph setup: filter jgit.benchmarks and jgit.coverage from import
• Speed up target resolution in Maven builds
• Update maven-assembly-plugin to 3.2.0
• Update maven-enforcer-plugin to 3.0.0-M3
• Update maven-pmd-plugin to 3.12.0
• Update spotbugs-maven-plugin to 3.1.12
• Replace deprecated junit assertion methods with hamcrest
• Update jboss tycho-plugins repository-utils to 1.5.1
• Update to Tycho 1.6.0
• Update javaewah to 1.1.7.v20200107-0831
• Update org.apache.commons.codec to 1.13.0.v20200108-0001
• Update org.apache.commons.compress to 1.19.0.v20200106-2343
• Update org.apache.httpcomponents.httpclient to 4.5.10.v20200114-1512
• Update org.apache.httpcomponents.httpcore to 4.4.12.v20200108-1212
• Upgrade jetty to 9.4.25.v20191220
• Upgrade project properties to 2019-12 format
• Update jetty to 9.4.24.v20191120
• Add Mylyn project properties to gitflow projects
• [oomph] Remove unrecognized XML attributes and elements
• [oomph] Update and cycle API baselines
• [tests] List directory contents if a directory cannot be deleted