New and Noteworthy 3.7

EGit

Features

• Enable using staging view for submodule repositories
• Double click on conflicting files in staging view opens the merge tool instead of compare view
• Consider URLs with and without ".git" when importing project sets
• Handle external files in CommitUI.getSelectedFiles()

GitHub Connector

• No new features

Usability Improvements

• "Updating index" should indicate that view is "busy"
• "Refresh" operation should indicate that view is "busy"
• Case insensitive order of remotes in push branch dialog
• Transparent icons in push branch dialog
• Make EGit Eclipse welcome page more consistent with other team providers
• Automatically configure gerrit for projects cloned from a Gerrit server

Performance Improvements

• Scalability: don't run incremental update if there are too many changes
• Scalability: label decorator should cache computed repository branch state. This heavily speeds up resource decoration for large repositories
• Fixed many UI freezes reported via Mars automated error reporting (see issue list).

Release Engineering and Build

• Update build to Tycho 0.22
• Use target platform DSL and generator to maintain target platforms

Bug Fixes

22 Bugs and 1 enhancement requests were closed

Contributors

The following 11 developers worked on this release:

Alexander Kurtakov, Andreas Hermann, Andrey Loskutov, Christian Georgi, Christian Halstrick, Johannes Dorn, Markus Keller, Matthias Sohn, Michael Keppler, Robin Stocker, Tomasz Zarna