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Bug 351500

Summary:	NPE while removing a directory from index
Product:	[Technology] JGit	Reporter:	Benjamin Muskalla <b.muskalla>
Component:	JGit	Assignee:	Project Inbox <jgit.core-inbox>
Status:	RESOLVED FIXED	QA Contact:
Severity:	normal
Priority:	P3	CC:	matthias.sohn, robin.rosenberg
Version:	unspecified
Target Milestone:	---
Hardware:	PC
OS:	Linux
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Description Benjamin Muskalla

2011-07-07 19:36:26 EDT

Removed a META-INF folder from the index (only contained a MANIFEST.MF) and got this in the log.

!ENTRY org.eclipse.core.jobs 4 2 2011-07-08 01:31:36.935
!MESSAGE An internal error occurred during: "Removing file from Git Index".
!STACK 0
java.lang.NullPointerException
	at org.eclipse.jgit.treewalk.TreeWalk.exitSubtree(TreeWalk.java:971)
	at org.eclipse.jgit.treewalk.TreeWalk.next(TreeWalk.java:547)
	at org.eclipse.egit.core.op.RemoveFromIndexOperation.updateDirCache(RemoveFromIndexOperation.java:126)
	at org.eclipse.egit.core.op.RemoveFromIndexOperation.execute(RemoveFromIndexOperation.java:78)
	at org.eclipse.egit.ui.internal.actions.RemoveFromIndexActionHandler$1.run(RemoveFromIndexActionHandler.java:53)
	at org.eclipse.core.internal.jobs.Worker.run(Worker.java:54)

Comment 1 Matthias Sohn

2012-04-19 03:02:03 EDT

which JGit version did you use here ? 2.0.0-SNAPSHOT can't throw a NPE on that line

Comment 2 Robin Rosenberg

2013-04-19 04:39:03 EDT

(In reply to comment #1)
> which JGit version did you use here ? 2.0.0-SNAPSHOT can't throw a NPE on
> that line

Assume fixed