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Bug 550977

Summary:	Cannot configure git settings
Product:	[Technology] EGit	Reporter:	Lars Briem <briem.lars>
Component:	UI	Assignee:	Project Inbox <egit.ui-inbox>
Status:	CLOSED DUPLICATE	QA Contact:
Severity:	critical
Priority:	P3	CC:	briem.lars, twolf
Version:	5.4.2
Target Milestone:	---
Hardware:	PC
OS:	Windows 10
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Description Lars Briem

2019-09-11 10:11:36 EDT

After downloading a fresh instance of eclipse using the installer, clicking on "Window > Preferences > Team > Git > Configuration" hangs up the UI. It is not possible to use eclipse anymore. The same happens when cloning a new repository. There was no problem using egit 5.3.x. 
According to stackoverflow ( https://stackoverflow.com/a/44910936/806246 ) this might be a problem due to the usage of bash on windows.

Comment 1 Lars Briem

2019-09-11 10:24:12 EDT

Using eclipse java ide version 2019-03 and egit 5.4.0 works for me.

Comment 2 Thomas Wolf

2019-09-11 11:31:59 EDT

I thought that got fixed in 5.4.2. See [1], and bug 548598.

However, also see [2], where another user reported something like this.

Could you please take jstack thread dumps and attach them here when that happens?

Also of interest: what Java version, and all the "filesystem" entries in your user gitconfig (if any).

[1] https://www.eclipse.org/forums/index.php/t/1099477/
[2] https://www.eclipse.org/forums/index.php/t/1100446/

Comment 3 Thomas Wolf

2019-09-11 11:38:19 EDT

The bash thing is bug 515354.

Comment 4 Lars Briem

2019-09-12 01:55:57 EDT

Adding the egit update site to eclipse and updating egit to version 5.4.2 solved the problem.

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of bug 548598 ***