diff --git a/org.eclipse.jgit.http.server/src/org/eclipse/jgit/http/server/glue/RegexPipeline.java b/org.eclipse.jgit.http.server/src/org/eclipse/jgit/http/server/glue/RegexPipeline.java
index 04266ec33..431202b2b 100644
--- a/org.eclipse.jgit.http.server/src/org/eclipse/jgit/http/server/glue/RegexPipeline.java
+++ b/org.eclipse.jgit.http.server/src/org/eclipse/jgit/http/server/glue/RegexPipeline.java
@@ -105,7 +105,7 @@ class RegexPipeline extends UrlPipeline {
 				// build a request for them so RegexGroupFilter can pick
 				// a different capture group later. Continue using the
 				// first capture group as the path info.
-				WrappedRequest groups[] = new WrappedRequest[cur.groupCount()];
+				WrappedRequest[] groups = new WrappedRequest[cur.groupCount()];
 				for (int groupId = 1; groupId <= cur.groupCount(); groupId++) {
 					final int s = cur.start(groupId);
 					final String path, info;
diff --git a/org.eclipse.jgit.junit/src/org/eclipse/jgit/junit/RepeatRule.java b/org.eclipse.jgit.junit/src/org/eclipse/jgit/junit/RepeatRule.java
index 02734741c..3db3ba90c 100644
--- a/org.eclipse.jgit.junit/src/org/eclipse/jgit/junit/RepeatRule.java
+++ b/org.eclipse.jgit.junit/src/org/eclipse/jgit/junit/RepeatRule.java
@@ -45,7 +45,7 @@ import org.junit.runners.model.Statement;
  */
 public class RepeatRule implements TestRule {
 
-	private static Logger LOG = Logger
+	private static final Logger LOG = Logger
 			.getLogger(RepeatRule.class.getName());
 
 	/**
diff --git a/org.eclipse.jgit.lfs.server/src/org/eclipse/jgit/lfs/server/LfsProtocolServlet.java b/org.eclipse.jgit.lfs.server/src/org/eclipse/jgit/lfs/server/LfsProtocolServlet.java
index eeacbc2f0..3ec08ecc8 100644
--- a/org.eclipse.jgit.lfs.server/src/org/eclipse/jgit/lfs/server/LfsProtocolServlet.java
+++ b/org.eclipse.jgit.lfs.server/src/org/eclipse/jgit/lfs/server/LfsProtocolServlet.java
@@ -60,7 +60,7 @@ import org.slf4j.LoggerFactory;
  * @since 4.3
  */
 public abstract class LfsProtocolServlet extends HttpServlet {
-	private static Logger LOG = LoggerFactory
+	private static final Logger LOG = LoggerFactory
 			.getLogger(LfsProtocolServlet.class);
 
 	private static final long serialVersionUID = 1L;
diff --git a/org.eclipse.jgit.lfs.server/src/org/eclipse/jgit/lfs/server/fs/ObjectDownloadListener.java b/org.eclipse.jgit.lfs.server/src/org/eclipse/jgit/lfs/server/fs/ObjectDownloadListener.java
index 28f3d94c9..cc57947a7 100644
--- a/org.eclipse.jgit.lfs.server/src/org/eclipse/jgit/lfs/server/fs/ObjectDownloadListener.java
+++ b/org.eclipse.jgit.lfs.server/src/org/eclipse/jgit/lfs/server/fs/ObjectDownloadListener.java
@@ -34,7 +34,7 @@ import org.eclipse.jgit.util.HttpSupport;
  */
 public class ObjectDownloadListener implements WriteListener {
 
-	private static Logger LOG = Logger
+	private static final Logger LOG = Logger
 			.getLogger(ObjectDownloadListener.class.getName());
 
 	private final AsyncContext context;
diff --git a/org.eclipse.jgit.lfs.server/src/org/eclipse/jgit/lfs/server/fs/ObjectUploadListener.java b/org.eclipse.jgit.lfs.server/src/org/eclipse/jgit/lfs/server/fs/ObjectUploadListener.java
index 95f941946..f5212fe25 100644
--- a/org.eclipse.jgit.lfs.server/src/org/eclipse/jgit/lfs/server/fs/ObjectUploadListener.java
+++ b/org.eclipse.jgit.lfs.server/src/org/eclipse/jgit/lfs/server/fs/ObjectUploadListener.java
@@ -38,7 +38,7 @@ import org.eclipse.jgit.lfs.lib.Constants;
  */
 public class ObjectUploadListener implements ReadListener {
 
-	private static Logger LOG = Logger
+	private static final Logger LOG = Logger
 			.getLogger(ObjectUploadListener.class.getName());
 
 	private final AsyncContext context;
diff --git a/org.eclipse.jgit.ssh.apache/src/org/eclipse/jgit/internal/transport/sshd/CachingKeyPairProvider.java b/org.eclipse.jgit.ssh.apache/src/org/eclipse/jgit/internal/transport/sshd/CachingKeyPairProvider.java
index 457186ae5..2ce69901c 100644
--- a/org.eclipse.jgit.ssh.apache/src/org/eclipse/jgit/internal/transport/sshd/CachingKeyPairProvider.java
+++ b/org.eclipse.jgit.ssh.apache/src/org/eclipse/jgit/internal/transport/sshd/CachingKeyPairProvider.java
@@ -88,7 +88,7 @@ public class CachingKeyPairProvider extends FileKeyPairProvider
 		if (cache == null) {
 			return loadKey(session, resource, path, getPasswordFinder());
 		}
-		Throwable t[] = { null };
+		Throwable[] t = { null };
 		KeyPair key = cache.get(path, p -> {
 			try {
 				return loadKey(session, resource, p, getPasswordFinder());
diff --git a/org.eclipse.jgit.ssh.apache/src/org/eclipse/jgit/internal/transport/sshd/proxy/HttpParser.java b/org.eclipse.jgit.ssh.apache/src/org/eclipse/jgit/internal/transport/sshd/proxy/HttpParser.java
index 357b7e4f7..d5b80374c 100644
--- a/org.eclipse.jgit.ssh.apache/src/org/eclipse/jgit/internal/transport/sshd/proxy/HttpParser.java
+++ b/org.eclipse.jgit.ssh.apache/src/org/eclipse/jgit/internal/transport/sshd/proxy/HttpParser.java
@@ -216,7 +216,7 @@ public final class HttpParser {
 				start = nextStart + 1;
 			} else {
 				if (header.charAt(nextStart) == '"') {
-					int nextEnd[] = { nextStart + 1 };
+					int[] nextEnd = { nextStart + 1 };
 					String value = scanQuotedString(header, nextStart + 1,
 							nextEnd);
 					challenge.addArgument(header.substring(start, end), value);
diff --git a/org.eclipse.jgit/src/org/eclipse/jgit/diff/RawText.java b/org.eclipse.jgit/src/org/eclipse/jgit/diff/RawText.java
index 6abefc02d..9f4b1fa49 100644
--- a/org.eclipse.jgit/src/org/eclipse/jgit/diff/RawText.java
+++ b/org.eclipse.jgit/src/org/eclipse/jgit/diff/RawText.java
@@ -415,7 +415,7 @@ public class RawText extends Sequence {
 				}
 			}
 
-			byte data[];
+			byte[] data;
 			try {
 				data = new byte[(int)sz];
 			} catch (OutOfMemoryError e) {
diff --git a/org.eclipse.jgit/src/org/eclipse/jgit/dircache/DirCacheCheckout.java b/org.eclipse.jgit/src/org/eclipse/jgit/dircache/DirCacheCheckout.java
index fdc89cd54..e8e198430 100644
--- a/org.eclipse.jgit/src/org/eclipse/jgit/dircache/DirCacheCheckout.java
+++ b/org.eclipse.jgit/src/org/eclipse/jgit/dircache/DirCacheCheckout.java
@@ -79,7 +79,8 @@ import org.slf4j.LoggerFactory;
  * This class handles checking out one or two trees merging with the index.
  */
 public class DirCacheCheckout {
-	private static Logger LOG = LoggerFactory.getLogger(DirCacheCheckout.class);
+	private static final Logger LOG = LoggerFactory
+			.getLogger(DirCacheCheckout.class);
 
 	private static final int MAX_EXCEPTION_TEXT_SIZE = 10 * 1024;
 
diff --git a/org.eclipse.jgit/src/org/eclipse/jgit/internal/storage/file/FileReftableStack.java b/org.eclipse.jgit/src/org/eclipse/jgit/internal/storage/file/FileReftableStack.java
index cded6700a..bc2039c56 100644
--- a/org.eclipse.jgit/src/org/eclipse/jgit/internal/storage/file/FileReftableStack.java
+++ b/org.eclipse.jgit/src/org/eclipse/jgit/internal/storage/file/FileReftableStack.java
@@ -649,7 +649,7 @@ public class FileReftableStack implements AutoCloseable {
 		}
 	}
 
-	static List<Segment> segmentSizes(long sizes[]) {
+	static List<Segment> segmentSizes(long[] sizes) {
 		List<Segment> segments = new ArrayList<>();
 		Segment cur = new Segment();
 		for (int i = 0; i < sizes.length; i++) {
@@ -669,7 +669,7 @@ public class FileReftableStack implements AutoCloseable {
 		return segments;
 	}
 
-	private static Optional<Segment> autoCompactCandidate(long sizes[]) {
+	private static Optional<Segment> autoCompactCandidate(long[] sizes) {
 		if (sizes.length == 0) {
 			return Optional.empty();
 		}
diff --git a/org.eclipse.jgit/src/org/eclipse/jgit/internal/storage/pack/PackWriter.java b/org.eclipse.jgit/src/org/eclipse/jgit/internal/storage/pack/PackWriter.java
index 057970eca..75dd345f4 100644
--- a/org.eclipse.jgit/src/org/eclipse/jgit/internal/storage/pack/PackWriter.java
+++ b/org.eclipse.jgit/src/org/eclipse/jgit/internal/storage/pack/PackWriter.java
@@ -191,7 +191,7 @@ public class PackWriter implements AutoCloseable {
 	}
 
 	@SuppressWarnings("unchecked")
-	BlockList<ObjectToPack> objectsLists[] = new BlockList[OBJ_TAG + 1];
+	BlockList<ObjectToPack>[] objectsLists = new BlockList[OBJ_TAG + 1];
 	{
 		objectsLists[OBJ_COMMIT] = new BlockList<>();
 		objectsLists[OBJ_TREE] = new BlockList<>();
@@ -236,7 +236,7 @@ public class PackWriter implements AutoCloseable {
 
 	private List<ObjectToPack> sortedByName;
 
-	private byte packcsum[];
+	private byte[] packcsum;
 
 	private boolean deltaBaseAsOffset;
 
diff --git a/org.eclipse.jgit/src/org/eclipse/jgit/merge/ResolveMerger.java b/org.eclipse.jgit/src/org/eclipse/jgit/merge/ResolveMerger.java
index 4b301c41f..575e7bd28 100644
--- a/org.eclipse.jgit/src/org/eclipse/jgit/merge/ResolveMerger.java
+++ b/org.eclipse.jgit/src/org/eclipse/jgit/merge/ResolveMerger.java
@@ -110,7 +110,7 @@ public class ResolveMerger extends ThreeWayMerger {
 	 *
 	 * @since 3.0
 	 */
-	protected String commitNames[];
+	protected String[] commitNames;
 
 	/**
 	 * Index of the base tree within the {@link #tw tree walk}.
diff --git a/org.eclipse.jgit/src/org/eclipse/jgit/transport/UploadPack.java b/org.eclipse.jgit/src/org/eclipse/jgit/transport/UploadPack.java
index 09ca7ca60..35196c6e3 100644
--- a/org.eclipse.jgit/src/org/eclipse/jgit/transport/UploadPack.java
+++ b/org.eclipse.jgit/src/org/eclipse/jgit/transport/UploadPack.java
@@ -2378,12 +2378,12 @@ public class UploadPack {
 		}
 
 		@Override
-		public void write(byte b[]) throws IOException {
+		public void write(byte[] b) throws IOException {
 			out.write(b);
 		}
 
 		@Override
-		public void write(byte b[], int off, int len) throws IOException {
+		public void write(byte[] b, int off, int len) throws IOException {
 			out.write(b, off, len);
 		}
 
diff --git a/org.eclipse.jgit/src/org/eclipse/jgit/util/FS.java b/org.eclipse.jgit/src/org/eclipse/jgit/util/FS.java
index f747d1a15..cae3c394c 100644
--- a/org.eclipse.jgit/src/org/eclipse/jgit/util/FS.java
+++ b/org.eclipse.jgit/src/org/eclipse/jgit/util/FS.java
@@ -2270,7 +2270,7 @@ public abstract class FS {
 
 		void copy() throws IOException {
 			boolean writeFailure = false;
-			byte buffer[] = new byte[4096];
+			byte[] buffer = new byte[4096];
 			int readBytes;
 			while ((readBytes = in.read(buffer)) != -1) {
 				// Do not try to write again after a failure, but keep
diff --git a/org.eclipse.jgit/src/org/eclipse/jgit/util/FS_Win32_Cygwin.java b/org.eclipse.jgit/src/org/eclipse/jgit/util/FS_Win32_Cygwin.java
index dd39416bb..82b2818a4 100644
--- a/org.eclipse.jgit/src/org/eclipse/jgit/util/FS_Win32_Cygwin.java
+++ b/org.eclipse.jgit/src/org/eclipse/jgit/util/FS_Win32_Cygwin.java
@@ -117,7 +117,7 @@ public class FS_Win32_Cygwin extends FS_Win32 {
 		argv.add("sh.exe"); //$NON-NLS-1$
 		argv.add("-c"); //$NON-NLS-1$
 		argv.add("$0 \"$@\""); //$NON-NLS-1$
-		argv.add(cmd);
+		argv.add(cmd.replace(File.separatorChar, '/'));
 		argv.addAll(Arrays.asList(args));
 		ProcessBuilder proc = new ProcessBuilder();
 		proc.command(argv);
diff --git a/org.eclipse.jgit/src/org/eclipse/jgit/util/LfsFactory.java b/org.eclipse.jgit/src/org/eclipse/jgit/util/LfsFactory.java
index 230d89008..7456c71f5 100644
--- a/org.eclipse.jgit/src/org/eclipse/jgit/util/LfsFactory.java
+++ b/org.eclipse.jgit/src/org/eclipse/jgit/util/LfsFactory.java
@@ -280,7 +280,7 @@ public class LfsFactory {
 		}
 
 		@Override
-		public int read(byte b[], int off, int len) throws IOException {
+		public int read(byte[] b, int off, int len) throws IOException {
 			return stream.read(b, off, len);
 		}
 
diff --git a/org.eclipse.jgit/src/org/eclipse/jgit/util/Monitoring.java b/org.eclipse.jgit/src/org/eclipse/jgit/util/Monitoring.java
index cd2a8e672..500c23673 100644
--- a/org.eclipse.jgit/src/org/eclipse/jgit/util/Monitoring.java
+++ b/org.eclipse.jgit/src/org/eclipse/jgit/util/Monitoring.java
@@ -49,7 +49,7 @@ public class Monitoring {
 			String metricName) {
 		boolean register = false;
 		try {
-			Class<?> interfaces[] = mbean.getClass().getInterfaces();
+			Class<?>[] interfaces = mbean.getClass().getInterfaces();
 			for (Class<?> i : interfaces) {
 				register = SystemReader.getInstance().getUserConfig()
 						.getBoolean(
diff --git a/org.eclipse.jgit/src/org/eclipse/jgit/util/sha1/SHA1.java b/org.eclipse.jgit/src/org/eclipse/jgit/util/sha1/SHA1.java
index c896daf7e..1420add66 100644
--- a/org.eclipse.jgit/src/org/eclipse/jgit/util/sha1/SHA1.java
+++ b/org.eclipse.jgit/src/org/eclipse/jgit/util/sha1/SHA1.java
@@ -45,7 +45,7 @@ import org.slf4j.LoggerFactory;
  * @since 4.7
  */
 public class SHA1 {
-	private static Logger LOG = LoggerFactory.getLogger(SHA1.class);
+	private static final Logger LOG = LoggerFactory.getLogger(SHA1.class);
 	private static final boolean DETECT_COLLISIONS;
 
 	static {