Eclipse JGit: Java implementation of Git 4.10.0 Release Review

Features

• CloneCommand: option to set FS to be used

• InitCommand: option to set FS to be used

• Add a command to deinitialize submodules

• FileBasedConfig: support for relative includes
• ObjectDirectory: Add pack directory getter
• Add a setting for fsck to check connectivity only
• dfs: reftable backed DfsRefDatabase: DfsReftableDatabase is a new alternative for DfsRefDatabase that handles more operations for the implementor by delegating through reftables.
• Support symbolic references in ReceiveCommand

Performance improvements

• DfsBlockCache.hasBlock0: quickly check for file in cache
• Performance improvement on writing a large index
• BitmapWalker: do not revisit objects in bitmap
• Introduce RawText#load.
• Skip unreachable garbage packs in dfs fsck

Bug Fixes

• WorkingTreeIterator should pass FS to submodules

• Use submodule name instead of path as key in config

• URIish: support for empty ports (bug 519187)

• Strings#convertGlob: fix escaping of patterns like [\[] (bug 528886)

• Config: Drop backslash in invalid escape sequences in subsections

• Config: Match C git behavior more closely in escaping values

• Config: Rewrite subsection and value escaping and parsing

• Fix javadoc errors raised by doclint

• DfsFsck: Skip unborn branches and symrefs to nowhere

• Make Config.readIncludedConfig a noop by default

• Remove use of deprecated X509HostnameVerifier

• TransportHttp: retry on IOException with another mechanism when a 401 occurs on POST and the server advertises Negotiate (bug 501167)
• Reject pack if delta exceeds array size limit
• Avoid loading and merging binary data in ResolveMerger
• Avoid bad rounding "1 year, 12 months" in date formatter (bug 525907)

Build and Release Engineering

• Upgrade error_prone_core to 2.1.3
• Update Jetty to 9.4.8.v20171121
• Add header Automatic-Module-Name for Java 9 (bug 529075)
• Updpate oxygen orbit to R20170919201930 and remove old orbit repos
• Update Apache httpclient to 4.5.2 and httpcore to 4.4.6
• Specify consistent version range for junit in OSGi manifests

• Remove maven profile jgit.java8

• Reenable failing the build on javadoc errors

• Require maven 3.5.2
• Upgrade spotbugs-maven-plugin to 3.1.0-RC8
• Upgrade maven-compiler-plugin to 3.7.0
• Update japicmp-maven-plugin to 0.11.0
• Upgrade spotbugs-maven-plugin to 3.1.0

• Upgrade maven-javadoc-plugin to 3.0.0

• Upgrade maven-surefire{-report}-plugin to 2.20.1

• Upgrade maven-dependency-plugin to 3.0.2

• Upgrade maven-shade-plugin to 3.1.0