Type
Release
State
Successful
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Release
4.2
Description
API
- Add RemoteAddCommand
- Add RemoteListCommand
- Add RemoteRemoveCommand
- Add option to allow empty commits to CommitCommand
Configuration
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Honor some git-core fsck.* configuration settings
JGit command line
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RepoCommand: Add setRecordRemoteBranch option to record upstream branch
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git rev-parse: Add --verify option
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Add remote command to JGit command line
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Reset command support for the -- <paths> parameters
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Improved online help
Transport
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Support more encryption algorithms for Amazon S3 storage of git repositories
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Support atomic push in JGit client
Git attribute support
- Basic support for .gitattribute handling
Support git-lfs extension
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Add support for pre-push hooks
- Add support for smudge filters. If defined in .gitattributes call smudge filter during checkout.
- Add support for clean filters. If defined in .gitattributes call clean filter during add to index.
These enhancements enable JGit and EGit to support the git-lfs extension [1] for versioning of large files
[1] https://git-lfs.github.com/
Performance Improvements
- Improve performance of DirCacheBuilder
- Speed-up creation of DirCacheEntry
- Speed-up garbage collection by improving generation of bitmap index
- Speed-up delta-packing
- Improve bitmap index calculation to speed-up reachability calculations done during transport
Release Engineering and Build
- Use japicmp [1] instead of clirr to detect API changes since clirr doesn't support Java 8
- Use @Nullable annotations to aid detection of NPEs at design time
- Alternative buck build, much faster than Maven, can't build OSGi artefacts yet
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