New and Noteworthy 4.6

EGit

Features

• Add hyperlinks to unified Diff Viewer to enable opening
• Open the previous version in an editor
• Open the workspace version (if it exists) in an editor
• Open "this" version (i.e., the “current” one of the diff) in an editor
• Open a two-way diff between the previous and this version in a compare editor
• Turn the DiffEditorPage used to display unified diffs into a real TextEditor. This enables many standard text editor actions like "Find" or "Go to line".
• Add an outline view for the diff tab of the Commit Viewer and enable text editor toolbar items
• Handle rebase modes 'preserve' and 'interactive' in EGit
• Introduce GitSynchronizer for logical model support
• Make auto-staging of files being moved configurable
• Make auto-staging of files being deleted configurable
• Compare/ReplaceWithPrevious support for multiple resources (in mappings)

Usability Improvements

• Show accurate progress reports for pull
• Use "Revision Information" label in preferences and update job
• Hide warning when reconfiguring upstream from local to remote branch
• Suppress the "Interactive rebase has been prepared" dialog
• Give focus to commit message when auto-staging is enabled
• More configurable date formatting
• Improve listing in "Report Bug or Enhancement" dialog
• Use "Show Revision Information" instead of "Show Annotations"
• Save and restore previously selected reset type
• Show Git Staging view in Git Repositories view's Show In menu
• Improve search implementation in RepositorySearchDialog

Performance Improvements

• Fix that click on search result caused EGit to stat the repository directory

Build and Release Engineering

• Change EGit minimum execution environment to JavaSE-1.8
• Change EGit Github Client's minimum execution environment to JavaSE-1.8
• Add Oxygen target platform, remove target platforms older than Mars
• Automatic Oomph Developer Setup
  • Add branding
  • Activate Change-Id
  • Update Oomph egit setup
  • Enforce UTF8 encoding of workspace

Bug Fixes

32 Bugs and 5 enhancement requests were closed

Contributors

The following 13 developers worked on this release:

Andrey Loskutov, Andrey Rodionov, Dani Megert, Gunnar Wagenknecht, Lars Vogel, Laurent Delaigue, Marc-Andre Laperle, Matthias Sohn, Max Hohenegger, Michael Keppler, Stefan Dirix, Thomas Wolf, Tomasz Zarna