Description Philipp Thun 2010-11-29 04:23:38 EST

Build Identifier: 20100917-0705

When trying to display the history of an empty Git repository in EGit an error pops up (Problem Occurred / Cannot parse HEAD in: <Project>) and an entry is written to the Error Log.

Although this behavior is somewhat consistent with C Git (git log -> fatal: bad default revision 'HEAD') and Gitk (Error parsing revisions: unknown revision HEAD), I would expect the EGit plugin to handle this situation in a more user-friendly manner. The best option would be to disable the "Show in History" entry in the context menu of a repository, project, folder or file.

Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1. Create a new, empty project
2. Share as Git project / create empty repository (Context menu on project -> Team -> Share Project... -> Git -> Create Repository)
3. Display history (Context menu on project -> Team -> Show in History)