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egit/jgit: Upate Index (refresh) causes NullPointerException for "external" projects

Subject: egit/jgit: Upate Index (refresh) causes NullPointerException for "external" projects

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One message between Apr 15, 2009 and Apr 15, 2009.

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HeX· Apr 15, 2009, 08:40 UTC · lore
Hi,

I think I found a bug in egit/jgit and can pin it down to "external" projects, i.e., projects which reside in different directories than the default workspace location.

Steps to reproduce:
 1. In Eclipse create a new project "foo" in an external location
(outside the default workspace location), say ~/bar/
 2. execute "git init" in that dir
 3. share project with git
 4. do a "Update Index (refresh)" operation and you'll get something
similar to
>Counted 168 items to update in 0.0s
java.lang.NullPointerException
	at org.spearce.egit.core.internal.UpdateJob.run(UpdateJob.java:91)
	at org.eclipse.core.internal.jobs.Worker.run(Worker.java:55)

All other git operations will also fail. However it will work if you create project which is created in the default workspace and which content is simply symlinked.

/HeX

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