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Bug 357951

Summary:	File->New->Other->Git->Git Repository is not working
Product:	[Technology] EGit	Reporter:	Jens Baumgart <jens.baumgart>
Component:	UI	Assignee:	Jens Baumgart <jens.baumgart>
Status:	RESOLVED FIXED	QA Contact:
Severity:	normal
Priority:	P3	CC:	eckart.langhuth, jan.von.loewenstein, mondgesicht, roland, utegental
Version:	1.1
Target Milestone:	1.2
Hardware:	PC
OS:	Mac OS X - Carbon (unsup.)
Whiteboard:

Description Jens Baumgart

2011-09-16 10:53:58 EDT

Creating a new Git repo via File->New->Other->Git->Git Repository fails with error.

Comment 1 Jens Baumgart

2011-09-16 11:12:05 EDT

Fix proposed: http://egit.eclipse.org/r/4263

Comment 2 Kevin Sawicki

2011-09-19 16:35:14 EDT

Merged into master as commit 2fb1004864142e0424e64f61d2af297e76b062ba

Comment 3 Matthias Sohn

2011-11-07 07:42:57 EST

*** Bug 349752 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***

Comment 4 Paul

2011-11-10 07:27:40 EST

*** Bug 363419 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***

Comment 5 Abdull

2012-03-27 09:00:39 EDT

Today I get this error as well:
~~~~
The selected wizard could not be started.
Plug-in "org.eclipse.egit.ui" was unable to instantiate class "org.eclipse.egit.ui.internal.repository.NewRepositoryWizard".
org.eclipse.egit.ui.internal.repository.NewRepositoryWizard
~~~~

I'm using

Eclipse EGit	1.1.0.201109151100-r	org.eclipse.egit.feature.group

Eclipse SDK	3.7.2.M20120208-0800	org.eclipse.sdk.ide	null

Comment 6 Jens Baumgart

2012-03-28 05:13:11 EDT

The fix for the issue is contained in EGit 1.2