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Bug 336696

Summary:	NPE while trying to discard changes
Product:	[Technology] JGit	Reporter:	Pascal Rapicault <pascal>
Component:	JGit	Assignee:	Matthias Sohn <matthias.sohn>
Status:	CLOSED DUPLICATE	QA Contact:
Severity:	critical
Priority:	P3	CC:	stefan.lay
Version:	0.10.0
Target Milestone:	---
Hardware:	PC
OS:	Mac OS X - Carbon (unsup.)
Whiteboard:

Description Pascal Rapicault

2011-02-09 06:39:26 EST

Using jgit 0.10.1 and trying to discard the changes I get.
Now I get the following error message: 
If no other git process is currently running, this probably means a
git process crashed in this repository earlier. Make sure no other git
process is running and remove the file manually to continue.


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:2313)
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


*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of bug 336557 ***