JGit and EGit are holding the line on Java 5 support; that means
that String.isEmpty() must be spelled as String.length() == 0
(isEmpty was added in Java 6).
just looked in the project settings for org.spearce.egit.core and it has
java 1.5 style specified _and_ eclipse does not give me a warning on the
*.isEmpty() calls. Am i missing something here?