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Bug 336557

Summary:	Exception when executing "Replace With > File in Git Index"
Product:	[Technology] EGit	Reporter:	Torkild Resheim <torkildr>
Component:	Core	Assignee:	Matthias Sohn <matthias.sohn>
Status:	CLOSED DUPLICATE	QA Contact:
Severity:	normal
Priority:	P3	CC:	pascal, stefan.lay
Version:	unspecified
Target Milestone:	---
Hardware:	Macintosh
OS:	Mac OS X
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Description Torkild Resheim

2011-02-07 14:19:49 EST

What steps will reproduce the problem?
1. Have a project with local changes.
2. Attempt to replace with latest from Git index
3. Observe the failure

Attempting operation again will fail because the index is locked. 

-- Error Details --
Date: Mon Feb 07 20:04:51 CET 2011
Message: An internal error occurred during: "Discard Changes".
Severity: Error
Product: Eclipse 1.3.1.20100913-1228 (org.eclipse.epp.package.rcp.product)
Plugin: org.eclipse.core.jobs
Exception Stack Trace:
java.lang.NullPointerException
at org.eclipse.jgit.dircache.DirCacheCheckout.checkoutEntry(DirCacheCheckout.java:808)
at org.eclipse.egit.core.op.DiscardChangesOperation.discardChange(DiscardChangesOperation.java:161)
at org.eclipse.egit.core.op.DiscardChangesOperation.discardChanges(DiscardChangesOperation.java:117)
at org.eclipse.egit.core.op.DiscardChangesOperation.access$0(DiscardChangesOperation.java:101)
at org.eclipse.egit.core.op.DiscardChangesOperation$1.run(DiscardChangesOperation.java:94)
at org.eclipse.core.internal.resources.Workspace.run(Workspace.java:1975)
at org.eclipse.egit.core.op.DiscardChangesOperation.execute(DiscardChangesOperation.java:97)
at org.eclipse.egit.ui.internal.actions.DiscardChangesActionHandler$1.run(DiscardChangesActionHandler.java:46)
at org.eclipse.core.internal.jobs.Worker.run(Worker.java:54)

Comment 1 Stefan Lay

2011-02-28 09:48:10 EST

*** Bug 336696 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***

Comment 2 Matthias Sohn

2011-02-28 11:06:25 EST

- which version of EGit are you using ?
- I just tried with current nightly version on a random test project and "Replace with > File in Git Index" worked for me
- could you retry with latest nightly from http://download.eclipse.org/egit/updates-nightly

Comment 3 Matthias Sohn

2011-08-04 17:55:36 EDT


*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of bug 333222 ***