New and Noteworthy 4.8

EGit

Features

• Support pulling remote branches to apply them on detached HEAD
• Support multiple ICommitMessageProvider implementations

Usability Improvements

• Use action verbs as button label
  • Change confirm hard reset dialog Yes- and No-button label
  • Change discard local changes dialog OK-button label
  • Use verbs in PullResultDialog instead of OK
• Set focus when context menu in staging view appears
• Adds mnemonics to the buttons in the git staging view
• Make double click on a staging view folder node expand it
• Improve progress reporting for submodules
• Open the clone wizard when a git URL is dropped anywhere on Eclipse
• Non-blocking content-assist in FetchGerritChangePage
• Refactor and simplify FetchGerritChangePage, remove foreground execution option
• Improve pasting into Change field in FetchGerritChangePage
• Give the tag field in FetchGerritChangePage a BranchNameNormalizer
• Expand/collapse folder nodes in DiffEditorOutline on double click
• Improve branch name field in FetchGerritChangePage
• Add a BranchNameNormalizer to the PushBranchPage
• Adds mnemonics to the buttons in the git staging view
• Add mnemonic to "Continue" button in "Running Launch" dialog

Performance Improvements

• Avoid multiple tree-walks in model-aware git synchronizations
• Throttle updates of the EclipseGitProgressTransformer

Build and Release Engineering

• Update jetty to 9.4.5
• Update maven plugins
• Update Oomph setup
• Update Orbit dependencies to the Oxygen version R20170516192513

Bug Fixes

27 Bugs and 4 enhancement requests were closed

• Don't auto-share for closed projects or for bare repositories
• Prevent NoWorkTreeException in GitProjectData
• Fix NPE in RepositorySelectionPage
• Remove many default handlers
• CommitEditor: fix check-out button display
• Fix synchronize with deleted resources
• Fix node selection in AbstractBranchSelectionDialog
• Workaround for HiDPI line number rulers on macOS retina
• Look for core_defaultRepositoryDir in all preference scopes
• Fix NPE in SubmoduleUpdateCommand
• SpellCheckingMessageArea cleanup & prevent NPE when spellcheck disabled
• Workaround to enable linking multiple resources to HistoryView
• Make HyperlinkTokenScanner more robust
• Load the reflog view asynchronously
• Fix representation toggle commands in the repositories view
• Update EGit state when only FETCH_HEAD changes
• Don't decorate when the workspace is not yet ready.
• Add a sanity check against misbehaving IAdaptables
• Fix "checkout" used as a verb to "check out"

Contributors

The following 14 developers worked on this release:

Andrey Loskutov, David Pursehouse, David Weiser, Fabian Pfaff, Ian Pun, Lars Vogel, Markus Keller, Martin Fleck, Matthias Sohn, Michael Keppler, Philip Langer, Stefan Cordes, Stefan Rademacher, Thomas Wolf