bug 521296 - Fix missing RefsChangedEvent when packed refs are used
bug 376369 - Fix Daemon.stop() to actually stop the listener thread
Remove workaround for bug in Java's ReferenceQueue which was fixed in Java 8.
Minimum Java version 8-b100: JGit 4.9 removes a
workaround for a
bug in ReferenceQueue of Sun's Java 5, 6, 7 implementation. This bug was fixed in
JDK 8-b100 hence this is the minimum supported Java version for JGit 4.9.
bug 508801 - Don't assume name = path in .gitmodules
bug 515325 - FetchCommand: pass on CredentialsProvider to submodule fetches
bug 520920 - Exclude file matching: fix backtracking on match failures after "**"
bug 508568 - Fix path pattern matching to work also for gitattributes
bug 519883 - Fix default directory used to clone when setDirectory wasn't called
bug 513043 - Do authentication re-tries on HTTP POST
Fix exception handling for opening bitmap index files
bug 393170 - Do not apply pushInsteadOf to existing pushUris
bug 520702 - Record submodule paths with untracked changes as FileMode.GITLINK
bug 520910 - Ensure EOL stream type is DIRECT when -text attribute is present. Otherwise fancy combinations of attributes (binary or -text in combination with crlf or eol) may result in the corruption of binary data.
bug 520677 - Use relative paths for attribute rule matching
Treat RawText of binary data as file with one single line. This avoids executing mergeAlgorithm.merge on binary data, which is unlikely to be useful.
bug 519887 - Fix JGit set core.fileMode to false by default instead of true for non Windows OS.
Fix matching ignores and attributes pattern of form a/b/**.
Fix deleting symrefs
bug 518377 - Fix bug in multiple tag handling on DescribeCommand
bug 393170 - pushInsteadOf configuration is ignored by EGit.
Note: Up to now JGit mistakenly applied pushInsteadOf also to existing pushUris. If some repositories had relied on this mis-feature, pushes may newly suddenly fail (the uncritical case; the config just needs to be fixed) or even still succeed but push to unexpected places, namely to the non-rewritten pushUrls (the critical case).