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Updated to the current nightly build: Eclipse EGit (Incubation) 0.9.0.201008180314 org.eclipse.egit.feature.group Eclipse JGit (Incubation) 0.9.0.201008171255 org.eclipse.jgit.feature.group Attempted to Synchronize master with a branch fetched from a remote. I get this exception double clicking on an outgoing file in the Syncrhonize View: An internal error occurred during: "Initializing Compare Editor". java.lang.NullPointerException at org.eclipse.jgit.util.RawParseUtils.author(RawParseUtils.java:549) at org.eclipse.jgit.revwalk.RevCommit.getAuthorIdent(RevCommit.java:303) at org.eclipse.egit.core.internal.storage.CommitFileRevision.<init>(CommitFileRevision.java:59) at org.eclipse.egit.core.internal.storage.GitFileRevision.inCommit(GitFileRevision.java:50) at org.eclipse.egit.ui.internal.CompareUtils.getFileRevision(CompareUtils.java:110) at org.eclipse.egit.ui.internal.CompareUtils.getFileRevisionTypedElement(CompareUtils.java:73) at org.eclipse.egit.ui.internal.synchronize.model.GitModelBlob.getRight(GitModelBlob.java:119) at org.eclipse.egit.ui.internal.synchronize.model.GitModelBlob.prepareInput(GitModelBlob.java:146) at org.eclipse.team.internal.ui.mapping.ModelCompareEditorInput.prepareCompareInput(ModelCompareEditorInput.java:121) at org.eclipse.team.ui.synchronize.SaveableCompareEditorInput.prepareInput(SaveableCompareEditorInput.java:235) at org.eclipse.compare.CompareEditorInput.run(CompareEditorInput.java:483) at org.eclipse.compare.internal.CompareUIPlugin.prepareInput(CompareUIPlugin.java:548) at org.eclipse.compare.internal.CompareEditor$2.run(CompareEditor.java:349) at org.eclipse.core.internal.jobs.Worker.run(Worker.java:54)
This is due to bug 322935. We will have it fixed soon. Thanks for trying out the sync view James. Any ideas or enhancements you have, please file bugs for them. *** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of bug 322935 ***
