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Bug 323123

Summary:	NPE in RawParseUtils.author
Product:	[Technology] JGit	Reporter:	James Blackburn <jamesblackburn+eclipse>
Component:	JGit	Assignee:	Project Inbox <egit.core-inbox>
Status:	CLOSED DUPLICATE	QA Contact:
Severity:	normal
Priority:	P3	CC:	caniszczyk
Version:	0.9.0
Target Milestone:	---
Hardware:	PC
OS:	Linux-GTK
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Description James Blackburn

2010-08-19 06:41:33 EDT

Updated to the current nightly build: 
  Eclipse EGit (Incubation)	0.9.0.201008180314	org.eclipse.egit.feature.group
  Eclipse JGit (Incubation)	0.9.0.201008171255	org.eclipse.jgit.feature.group

Attempted to Synchronize master with a branch fetched from a remote.

I get this exception double clicking on an outgoing file in the Syncrhonize View:

An internal error occurred during: "Initializing Compare Editor".
java.lang.NullPointerException
at org.eclipse.jgit.util.RawParseUtils.author(RawParseUtils.java:549)
at org.eclipse.jgit.revwalk.RevCommit.getAuthorIdent(RevCommit.java:303)
at org.eclipse.egit.core.internal.storage.CommitFileRevision.<init>(CommitFileRevision.java:59)
at org.eclipse.egit.core.internal.storage.GitFileRevision.inCommit(GitFileRevision.java:50)
at org.eclipse.egit.ui.internal.CompareUtils.getFileRevision(CompareUtils.java:110)
at org.eclipse.egit.ui.internal.CompareUtils.getFileRevisionTypedElement(CompareUtils.java:73)
at org.eclipse.egit.ui.internal.synchronize.model.GitModelBlob.getRight(GitModelBlob.java:119)
at org.eclipse.egit.ui.internal.synchronize.model.GitModelBlob.prepareInput(GitModelBlob.java:146)
at org.eclipse.team.internal.ui.mapping.ModelCompareEditorInput.prepareCompareInput(ModelCompareEditorInput.java:121)
at org.eclipse.team.ui.synchronize.SaveableCompareEditorInput.prepareInput(SaveableCompareEditorInput.java:235)
at org.eclipse.compare.CompareEditorInput.run(CompareEditorInput.java:483)
at org.eclipse.compare.internal.CompareUIPlugin.prepareInput(CompareUIPlugin.java:548)
at org.eclipse.compare.internal.CompareEditor$2.run(CompareEditor.java:349)
at org.eclipse.core.internal.jobs.Worker.run(Worker.java:54)

Comment 1 Chris Aniszczyk

2010-08-19 10:03:39 EDT

This is due to bug 322935.

We will have it fixed soon.

Thanks for trying out the sync view James. Any ideas or enhancements you have, please file bugs for them.

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of bug 322935 ***