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Internal error GitDecoratorJob NullPointerException [message #658024]

Sat, 05 March 2011 02:28

Eclipse User

I got this error when I tried to deploy EGit in my project:

An internal error occurred during: "GitDecoratorJob[/Users/nyholku/jDraftProject/.git]".
java.lang.NullPointerException

this is with the latest Helios and EGit

Eclipse JGit (Incubation) 0.11.3 org.eclipse.jgit.feature.group

Eclipse SDK 3.6.2.M20110210-1200 org.eclipse.sdk.ide

Anything I could try or should I file a bug?

br Kusti

Re: Internal error GitDecoratorJob NullPointerException [message #658230 is a reply to message #658024]

Mon, 07 March 2011 08:59

Eclipse User

Hi Kusti,

please open a bug with the stacktrace of the Exception from the Eclipse
Error Log view.

Thanks and Best Regards,
Stefan

"Kustaa Nyholm" <kustaa.nyholm@planmeca.com> wrote in message
news:iksoad$mjm$1@news.eclipse.org...
>I got this error when I tried to deploy EGit in my project:
>
> An internal error occurred during:
> "GitDecoratorJob[/Users/nyholku/jDraftProject/.git]".
> java.lang.NullPointerException
>
> this is with the latest Helios and EGit
>
>
> Eclipse JGit (Incubation) 0.11.3 org.eclipse.jgit.feature.group
>
> Eclipse SDK 3.6.2.M20110210-1200 org.eclipse.sdk.ide
>
> Anything I could try or should I file a bug?
>
> br Kusti
>

Re: Internal error GitDecoratorJob NullPointerException [message #658241 is a reply to message #658024]

Mon, 07 March 2011 09:49

Eclipse User

Hi Stefan,

thanks for answering. I will see if I can re-procude the case (to generate the stack trace) as I've 'solved' the problem.

The problem was that there was file in the project which I think was actually a link/alias and which was somehow damaged. I could not even delete it from the workspace/project. In the end I opened the '.project' file and deleted every reference to that file, I think it was in a section called 'linked something'

I will see if my Time Machine has a copy of the damager .project file so I can file a proper bug report.

Anyway, it looks clear that GitDecoratorJob chokes on a bad file in the 'project' and does not gracefully ignore or report it.

br Kusti

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