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Clone empty remote repository -> Null pointer exception [message #663101]

Sun, 03 April 2011 15:49

Frank

Messages: 3
Registered: September 2010

Junior Member

Hello,

I'm using eclipse 3.6 and EGit 0.11.3.
On the remote linux git server is git (1.7.0.4) and gitosis installed.
I cloned the gitosis-admin.git repo and added a new project to the gitosis.conf. Then I successfully pushed that to the remote server.
I tried to clone that none existing project with Eclipse but I got a Null pointer Exception. The project folder was created on the remote server (in /srv/gitosis/repositories) but I cannot clone this empty project.
Is this a known bug?

As a workaround I initialized the project directly on the remote server.

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Re: Clone empty remote repository -> Null pointer exception [message #663127 is a reply to message #663101]

Sun, 03 April 2011 20:37

Manuel Doninger

Messages: 119
Registered: October 2010

Senior Member

Can you clone a new project with the command line Git?

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Re: Clone empty remote repository -> Null pointer exception [message #663232 is a reply to message #663127]

Mon, 04 April 2011 12:36

Frank

Messages: 3
Registered: September 2010

Junior Member

Yes, that works.

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Re: Clone empty remote repository -> Null pointer exception [message #664739 is a reply to message #663101]

Mon, 11 April 2011 18:49

No real name

Messages: 3
Registered: April 2011

Junior Member

This seems to be a known limitation of egit (and it used to be an limitation of git as well until recently). Workarounds are either your method or simply adding an empty file (or a .gitignore etc) to the repository to make it no longer empty.

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