New and Noteworthy 4.3

EGit

Improve support for submodules and nested repositories

• Update index diff of parent repository when submodule changes
• Extended support for nested repositories in project.
• Fix refresh after re-connecting a project with submodules inside
• Handle submodules in auto-sharing
• Delegate detection of git repositories to JGit
• RepositoryCache: do not prematurely remove submodules
• RepositoriesViewLabelProvider: mark dirty submodules
• Fix recognition of submodules in folders.

Staging View

• When running "Commit" action open staging view instead of commit dialog
• Auto-switch between horizontal and vertical StagingView layout

GitFlow

• Allow filtering of Gitflow feature branches in checkout and track dialog
• Added Gitflow convenience command for checking out develop branch

Gerrit support

• Staging View: Treat "Commit and Push" as Gerrit push for the currently checked out branch when the repository has a gerrit configuration.
• Auto-fill "Fetch from Gerrit" wizard for more clipboard contents

Miscellaneous enhancements

• Wizard to configure pull operation
• Use default preferences for preferred MergeStrategy
• Support copy/move of workspace if Git repository is under workspace
• Distinguish unchanged/deleted files in logical models
• In order to allow headless reuse move EclipseSshSessionFactory, EclipseAuthenticator and EclipseProxySelector to org.eclipse.egit.core

EGit Github Client

• Add the assigner attribute to IssueEvent

Build and release engineering

• Update to latest SWTBot to get more meaningful screenshots on test errors

Bug Fixes

19 Bugs and 1 enhancement requests were closed

Contributors

The following 11 developers worked on this release:

Andre Bossert, Andrey Loskutov, Dani Megert, Frank Jakop, Lars Vogel, Laurent Delaigue, Markus Keller, Matthias Sohn, Max Hohenegger, Mickael Istria, Thomas Wolf