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Bug 356020

Summary: GitFileHistoryProvider.getFileHistoryFor fails with "Empty path not permitted."
Product: [Technology] EGit Reporter: Thomas Hallgren <thomas>
Component: CoreAssignee: Project Inbox <egit.core-inbox>
Status: RESOLVED FIXED QA Contact:
Severity: normal    
Priority: P3 CC: matthias.sohn
Version: unspecified   
Target Milestone: ---   
Hardware: All   
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Bug Blocks: 356021    

Description Thomas Hallgren CLA 2011-08-28 07:28:20 EDT 
Some projects are also repositories in the sense that they contain the actual .git folder. The GitFileHistory constructor is not able to handle that. It calls the RemoteMapping.getRepoRelativePath() and receives an empty path. It then tries to create a path filter which fails with an "Empty path not permitted." message.

The solution is probably to check for empty paths and omit the path filter when that's the case.
Comment 1 Thomas Hallgren CLA 2011-08-28 13:27:35 EDT 
I pushed a patch to Gerrit. http://egit.eclipse.org/r/#change,4080
Comment 2 Matthias Sohn CLA 2011-08-30 11:14:34 EDT 
merged as 4da79c1b456475765193193d8c81285ddcaf0304