Eclipse JGit: Java implementation of Git 7.1.0

New Features

• jgit-44 Implement SSH signing
• Add pack-refs command to the CLI
• Support built-in diff drivers for hunk header function names for C++, DTS, Java, Python, Rust
• Add Union merge strategy support to allow users to specify the union strategy in their .gitattributes file
• Add numberOfObjectsSinceBitmap to RepoStatistics
• Add numberOfPackFilesSinceBitmap to RepoStatistics
• DfsPackCompactor: write object size index

Other Improvements

• PersonIdent: Use java.time instead of older Date and milliseconds, deprecate methods based on old Date API
• GitTimeParser: Alternative time parser using the java.time API
• SystemReader: add method to get LocalDateTime
• DfsGarbageCollector: #setReflogExpire with Instant instead of Date
• SystemReader: Offer methods with java.time API
• GPG: use bouncycastle PGP secret key parsing out of the box and remove the custom S-expression parsing
• ResolveMerger: Allow setting the TreeWalk AttributesNodeProvider
• jgit-96 DfsGarbageCollector: Add setter for reflog expiration time.
• SSH signing: don't require a session in PasswordProviderWrapper
• SSH signing: make OpenSSH pattern matching public
• SSH signing: prepare config
• ssh: add a factory for KeyPasswordProvider
• Record failing paths in recursive merge to help diagnose LOCK_FAILURE errors

Performance Improvements

• RawText: improve performance of isCrLfText and isBinary
• Replace custom encoder Constants#encodeASCII by JDK implementation
• Replace custom encoder `Constants#encode` by JDK implementation

Bug Fixes

• PackDirectory: Filter out tmp GC pack files created by git repacking
• jgit-68 Align request policies with CGit to ensure allow-tip-sha1-in-want and/or allow-reachable-sha1-in-want are reported if uploadpack.allowAnySHA1InWant is enabled
• jgit-110 Change default similarity score to 50(%) to match git's default
• Pack.java: Recover more often in Pack.copyAsIs2() when it cannot find an object which previously was believed to be in its packfile
• ResolveMerger: honor ignoreConflicts also for binary files
• Remove unnecessary argument handler in MergeBase CLI command
• jgit-48 AdvertisedRequestValidator: fix WantNotValidException caused by race

Build and Release Engineering

Update dependencies

• Apache sshd to 2.14.0
• bouncycastle to 1.79
• bytebuddy to 1.15.10
• commons-io:commons-io to 2.17.0
• Jetty to 12.0.15
• mockito to 5.14.2
• org.apache.commons:commons-lang3 to 3.17.0
• orbit-4.34: update junit bundle to 4.13.2.v20240929-1000

Misc

• Add 4.34 target platform for Eclipse 2024-12
• Use 2024-09 release repository in 4.33 target platform