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It should return "this".
As noted by Matthias and others, this is a backwards breaking change for clients that have already compiled against it. However, it is a source compatible change since existing clients which build against this will continue to work. It means that adding this will require a major change to JGit.
New Gerrit change created: https://git.eclipse.org/r/c/jgit/jgit/+/178067
There's a suggestion this would be good for JGit 6.0, but I don't see that as a milestone listed here. Could someone create it so we can tag it appropriately?
Gerrit change https://git.eclipse.org/r/c/jgit/jgit/+/178067 was merged to [next]. Commit: http://git.eclipse.org/c/jgit/jgit.git/commit/?id=b6d4844b5d60f63a46f2b8b42189f70de653b385