6.2.0

New Features

552840 Teach JGit to handle external diff/merge tools defined in .gitattributes
356832 Support external diff and merge tools, see https://git-scm.com/docs/git-mergetool
- Adapt diff- and merge tool code for PGM and EGit usage
- Add availability check of pre-defined tools
- Add filtering with help of DirCacheCheckout.getContent()
- Add mergetool merge feature (execute external tool)
- Add command line support for "git mergetool"
- Add config reader for user-defined mergetools
- Add difftool compare feature (execute external tool)
571390 [sshd] Better user feedback on authentication failure
Fetch: Introduce negative refspecs.
579325 Use git config core.commentChar when committing, creating merge conflict messages and creating and editing squash messages.
579325 CommitConfig: add support for core.commentChar
546567 [push, lfs] Tell the pre-push hook whether the push is a dry run

Fix connection leak for smart http connections
579445 Remove stray files (probes or lock files) created by background threads
579676 HTTP Smart: set correct HTTP status on error
579550 De-couple ServiceLoader calls from class loading
579550 GpgSigner: prevent class lock inversion on the default signer
CommitCommand: call GpgSigner.getDefault() only if indeed signing
DirCacheCheckout: use a LinkedHashMap instead of HashMap. This guarantees that updates are checked out in git order, which is important for LFS if a .lfsconfig file is used
579116 Re-try reading a file when there are concurrent writes and the filesystem does not support atomic rename
575629 [sideband] Ensure last bit of progress channel is written
544769 LsRemoteCommand: apply url.*.insteadOf to ensure remote URI is translated if used without repository

Release Date:

Wednesday, June 15, 2022

This release is part of Eclipse IDE 2022-06.

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Minor release

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