New and Noteworthy 3.7

JGit

Features

• Add basic support for .gitattributes
• Use slf4j for logging
• Introduce hook support into the FS implementations (on Posix and Cygwin)
• Support for the pre-commit hook
• Provide more details in exceptions thrown when packfile is invalid

JGit Command Line

• JGit command line: add option --orphan for checkout command

Build and Release Engineering

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

Bug Fixes

3 Bugs and 0 enhancement requests were closed

Contributors

The following 14 developers worked on this release of JGit:

Alexander Kurtakov, Andrey Loskutov, Arthur Daussy, Christian Halstrick, Dave Borowitz, David Pletcher, Frank Wagner, Ilmars Poikans, Jonathan Nieder, Laurent Goubet, Matthias Sohn, Rüdiger Herrmann, Shawn Pearce, Stefan Beller