New and Noteworthy 7.8 - eclipse-egit/egit GitHub Wiki

EGit

EGit 7.8.0 requires Eclipse 2025-06 (4.36) or newer.

Usability Improvements

  • #204 Enable Pull for mixed selections containing at least one Git repository
  • #185 Add menu item for "simple fetch" for each remote to Remote submenu
  • Add "Close Projects Outside Repository" command
  • Staging View: open the submodule's repository on double-click
  • Add batch project open/close commands in Git Repositories view
  • #167 GenerateHistoryJob: update the UI even if not all commits are fetched
  • Team Synchronizing: add context menu entry "Replace with HEAD revision"

Other changes

Find the complete list of changes in the Release Notes.

Contributors

The following 7 developers worked on this release:

  • Federico Jeanne, Florian Schwabe, Jan Peter Stotz, Lars Vogel, Matthias Sohn, Stephan Wahlbrink, Thomas Wolf