Eclipse JGit: Java implementation of Git 5.2.0 Release Review

Features

• 520927 Apache MINA sshd client: 
  • Include id_ed25519 in the known default identity files
  • Enable support for ed25519 keys
  • Proxy support
  • Add --ssh option to command-line commands
  • Use NumberOfPasswordPrompts for encrypted keys
  • Properly handle HostKeyAlgorithms config
  • Respect NumberOfPasswordPrompts
  • Add gssapi-with-mic authentication
  • Add ssh tests for PreferredAuthentications
  • Add features for the Apache MINA sshd implementation
  • Add a new ssh client implementation based on Apach MINA sshd 2.0.0.
  • Add more ssh tests: pushing, known_host file handling, etc.
  • TransportSftp: eliminate dependency on Jsch
  • Factor out a JSch-independent ssh config parser
  • Ssh tests with an Apache MINA sshd test git server
• UploadPack v2 protocol support
  • UploadPack: Implement deepen-not for protocol v2 to allow clients to use the --shallow-exclude parameter
  • Accept protocol v2 server options on fetch and ls-refs requests
  • UploadPack: Use request instead of field for filterBlobLimt
  • UploadPack: support deepen-since in protocol v2
• Add a method to HttpConnection to get all values of HTTP header defined as list
• New GpgConfig for typed access to GPG settings
• RepoCommand.RemoteReader: Add method to read contents and mode of file
• DfsFsck: Check that .gitmodules in the repository have valid contents
• RefDatabase: Support multiple prefixes when querying refs

Bug Fixes

• 541622 Set git environment variables GIT_DIR and GIT_WORK_TREE when calling hooks
• 467631 Fix IndexDiffs for git links
• Fix DescribeCommand with multiple match options
• Revert C Git 1.7.5 bug workaround which is a patch for dealing with a buggy C Git client v1.7.5 in 2012.
• 520927 Apache MINA sshd client: don't leak HostConfigEntry
• 520927 Apache MINA sshd client: test & fix password authentication
• 538610 Fix git-describe tie-breakers
• DepthGenerator: fix multi-child boundary handling causing invalid repository on shallow clone
• Fix package exports in org.eclipse.jgit MANIFEST.MF
• RepoCommand: Preserve executable bit in <copyfile>
• gitignore/gitattributes: fix matching of \r
• Throw error when deepen-since excludes all commits in "git fetch --shallow-since=<date> origin <ref>"
• UploadPack v0: Extract "agent" client capability at parse time. This makes the treatment of "agent" consistent in v0/v1 and v2.
• Ensure pre-push hook properly terminates ref lines by \n
• CheckoutCommand: force flag now allows overwrite ensuring a force checkout will overwrite conflicting files
• UploadPack: Return correct peer user agent on v2 requests
• InternalPushConnection: don't swallow RuntimeException
• 497290 Fix handling of core.eol=native and of crlf attribute on Windows
• TextBuiltin: Default to UTF-8 when i18n.logOutputEncoding is not set
• SidebandInputStream: Specify charset when calling String.getBytes()
• Fix Mylyn commit message template
• 538270 Config.set-methods should not touch lines from included files
• 529825 Don't inline included configs on FileBasedConfig.save()
• 538768 Set TagOpt.AUTO_FOLLOW when not cloning all branches
• 466858 Fix fetch refspecs when not cloning all branches
• Fix potential NPE in SmudgeFilter#downloadLfsResource
• SpotBugs: don't rely on default encoding

Build and Release Engineering

• Update Apache commons compress to 1.18.0, fixes CVE-2018-1324 and CVE-2018-11771
• Update bcprov-jdk15on used in tests to 1.59
• Update Ant to 1.10.5
• Update mockito to 2.13.0
• Upgrade maven-shade-plugin to 3.2.1
• Upgrade Spotbugs to 3.1.8
• Update eclipse compiler org.eclipse.jdt:ecj to 3.15.0
• Upgrade maven-pmd-plugin to 3.11.0
• Upgrade maven-surefire plugins to 2.22.1
• Upgrade error_prone_core to 2.3.2
• Upgrade wagon-ssh to 3.2.0
• Upgrade maven-jxr-plugin to 3.0.0
• Upgrade maven-shade-plugin to 3.2.0
• Upgrade jacoco-maven-plugin to 0.8.2
• Upgrade maven-project-info-reports-plugin to 3.0.0
• Upgrade maven-enforcer-plugin to 3.0.0-M2
• Ensure same version of maven-surefire-plugin and maven-surefire-report-plugin
• Update staging target platform for eclipse platform 4.10
• New target platform for 4.9
• Bazel: Consume versions directly from lib:versions.bzl in skylib
• Bazel: Add missing test dependency on ObjectIdMatcher
• Upgrade to Bazel 0.19.0
• Bazel: Increase severity of DefaultCharset to ERROR
• Bazel: Increase severity of MissingFail to ERROR
• Bazel: Increase severity of ExpectedExceptionChecker to ERROR
• Bazel: Provide toolchain with activated error prone warnings
• Update .mailmap