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Bug 322935

Summary: NPE in RevCommit.getAuthorIdent()
Product: [Technology] JGit Reporter: Dariusz Luksza <dariusz.luksza>
Component: JGitAssignee: Project Inbox <jgit.core-inbox>
Status: RESOLVED INVALID QA Contact:
Severity: minor    
Priority: P3 CC: caniszczyk, jamesblackburn+eclipse
Version: 0.9.0   
Target Milestone: 0.9.0   
Hardware: PC   
OS: Linux   
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Bug Depends on:    
Bug Blocks: 322732    

Description Dariusz Luksza CLA 2010-08-17 13:08:52 EDT 
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It looks like JGit for some strange reasons lost reference to author indent.

As far as I investigate it, this occurs only in EGit Synchronization and *only* for latest commit that is displayed in Sync-view.

Initially for obtaining base commit in GitModelCommit class I use remote commit parent using this call:
remoteCommit.getParent(0);
But during debugging it occurs that sometimes:
remoteCommit.getParent(0).getAuthorIdent();
throws NPE even when theirs ObjectId were returned properly. Therefore I've used RevWalk to re-parse RevCommit object. This seams to work because none of baseCommit.getAuthorIdent() throws NPE.

But suddenly it occur that re-parsed object few moments after it is re-parsed also loses reference to author indent

Reproducible: Always
Comment 1 Chris Aniszczyk CLA 2010-08-19 10:03:39 EDT 
*** Bug 323123 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***
Comment 2 Chris Aniszczyk CLA 2010-08-19 10:04:24 EDT 
Upping the severity as people are hitting this in the field more often now when playing with the nightlies.
Comment 3 Dariusz Luksza CLA 2010-08-19 10:23:32 EDT 
According to Shawn's mail on jgit-dev[1], this isn't a bug but consequence of keeping high performance on JGit implementation. I'll fix this in EGit in a few moments ;)

1. http://dev.eclipse.org/mhonarc/lists/jgit-dev/msg00566.html