Eclipse JGit: Java implementation of Git 5.12.0 Release Review

Features

• Allow to skip detecting content renames for binary files
• RepoCommand: Retry commit on LockFailure
• 371725 ApplyCommand: support binary patches
• 371725 ApplyCommand: add a stream to apply a delta patch
• 371725 ApplyCommand: add streams to read/write binary patch hunks
• 371725 ApplyCommand: add a base-85 codec
• Add git config for conflict style merge/diff3
• 501111 Implement ours and theirs content conflict resolution strategies
• Allow file mode conflicts in virtual base commit on recursive merge.
• Allow info messages in UsernamePasswordCredentialsProvider
• 572103 ssh config: do environment variable replacement
• 572056 sshd: implement server-sig-algs SSH extension (client side)
• Introduce getMergedInto(RevCommit commit, Collection<Ref> refs)
• 571798 HTTP cookies: do tilde expansion on http.cookieFile

Performance Improvements

• Optimize RevWalkUtils.findBranchesReachableFrom()
• Skip detecting content renames for large files

Bug Fixes

• 573328 LockFile: create OutputStream only when needed
• RepoCommand: Do not set 'branch' if the revision is a tag
• pgm: rewrite parents when --parents flag is passed
• ApplyCommand: fix "no newline at end" detection
• ApplyCommand: handle completely empty context lines in text patches
• ApplyCommand: use byte arrays for text patches, not strings
• 571585 ApplyCommand: convert to git internal format before applying patch
• SSH config: fix whitespace handling
• SSH config: fix negated patterns
• 572849 ssh: ensure list is modifiable before using Iterator.remove().
• 559548 sshd: don't lock the known_hosts files on reading

Build and Release Engineering

• Update Orbit to R20210602031627
• Upgrade eclipse-jarsigner-plugin to 1.3.1
• Upgrade maven-javadoc-plugin to 3.3.0
• Update maven-project-info-reports-plugin to 3.1.2
• Update spotbugs-maven-plugin to 4.2.3
• Update jetty to 9.4.41.v20210516
• Upgrade ecj to 3.25.0
• Upgrade wagon-ssh to 3.4.3
• Update spring-boot-maven-plugin to 2.4.4
• Update spotbugs-maven-plugin to 4.2.2
• Update japicmp-maven-plugin to 0.15.3
• Document http options supported by JGit