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Using 20180619-1200_eclipse-jee-photon-RC4-linux.gtk.x86_64.tar.gz, I get this error on startup, which suggests that egit LFS support is not in fact optional. eclipse.buildId=4.8.0.I20180611-0500 java.version=1.8.0_171 java.vendor=Oracle Corporation BootLoader constants: OS=linux, ARCH=x86_64, WS=gtk, NL=en_CA Framework arguments: -product org.eclipse.epp.package.jee.product Command-line arguments: -os linux -ws gtk -arch x86_64 -data /home/nboldt/eclipse/workspace-48clean -consolelog -product org.eclipse.epp.package.jee.product -data /home/nboldt/eclipse/workspace-48clean -debug -console -consolelog !ENTRY org.eclipse.egit.core 2 0 2018-06-29 13:18:34.333 !MESSAGE Builtin LFS support not present/detected !STACK 0 java.lang.ClassNotFoundException: org.eclipse.jgit.lfs.BuiltinLFS cannot be found by org.eclipse.egit.core_5.0.0.201806131550-r at org.eclipse.osgi.internal.loader.BundleLoader.findClassInternal(BundleLoader.java:508) at org.eclipse.osgi.internal.loader.BundleLoader.findClass(BundleLoader.java:419) at org.eclipse.osgi.internal.loader.BundleLoader.findClass(BundleLoader.java:411) at org.eclipse.osgi.internal.loader.ModuleClassLoader.loadClass(ModuleClassLoader.java:150) at java.lang.ClassLoader.loadClass(ClassLoader.java:357) at java.lang.Class.forName0(Native Method) at java.lang.Class.forName(Class.java:264) at org.eclipse.egit.core.Activator.registerBuiltinLFS(Activator.java:279) at org.eclipse.egit.core.Activator.start(Activator.java:212) at org.eclipse.osgi.internal.framework.BundleContextImpl$3.run(BundleContextImpl.java:779) at org.eclipse.osgi.internal.framework.BundleContextImpl$3.run(BundleContextImpl.java:1) at java.security.AccessController.doPrivileged(Native Method) at org.eclipse.osgi.internal.framework.BundleContextImpl.startActivator(BundleContextImpl.java:772) at org.eclipse.osgi.internal.framework.BundleContextImpl.start(BundleContextImpl.java:729) at org.eclipse.osgi.internal.framework.EquinoxBundle.startWorker0(EquinoxBundle.java:1002) at org.eclipse.osgi.internal.framework.EquinoxBundle$EquinoxModule.startWorker(EquinoxBundle.java:354) at org.eclipse.osgi.container.Module.doStart(Module.java:581) at org.eclipse.osgi.container.Module.start(Module.java:449) at org.eclipse.osgi.framework.util.SecureAction.start(SecureAction.java:468) at org.eclipse.osgi.internal.hooks.EclipseLazyStarter.postFindLocalClass(EclipseLazyStarter.java:114) at org.eclipse.osgi.internal.loader.classpath.ClasspathManager.findLocalClass(ClasspathManager.java:505) at org.eclipse.osgi.internal.loader.ModuleClassLoader.findLocalClass(ModuleClassLoader.java:328) at org.eclipse.osgi.internal.loader.BundleLoader.findLocalClass(BundleLoader.java:392) at org.eclipse.osgi.internal.loader.sources.SingleSourcePackage.loadClass(SingleSourcePackage.java:36) at org.eclipse.osgi.internal.loader.BundleLoader.findClassInternal(BundleLoader.java:454) at org.eclipse.osgi.internal.loader.BundleLoader.findClass(BundleLoader.java:419) at org.eclipse.osgi.internal.loader.BundleLoader.findClass(BundleLoader.java:411) at org.eclipse.osgi.internal.loader.ModuleClassLoader.loadClass(ModuleClassLoader.java:150) at java.lang.ClassLoader.loadClass(ClassLoader.java:357) at org.eclipse.egit.ui.Activator$RepositoryChangeScanner.<init>(Activator.java:921) at org.eclipse.egit.ui.Activator.setupRepoChangeScanner(Activator.java:1034) at org.eclipse.egit.ui.Activator.start(Activator.java:336) at org.eclipse.osgi.internal.framework.BundleContextImpl$3.run(BundleContextImpl.java:779) at org.eclipse.osgi.internal.framework.BundleContextImpl$3.run(BundleContextImpl.java:1) at java.security.AccessController.doPrivileged(Native Method) at org.eclipse.osgi.internal.framework.BundleContextImpl.startActivator(BundleContextImpl.java:772) at org.eclipse.osgi.internal.framework.BundleContextImpl.start(BundleContextImpl.java:729) at org.eclipse.osgi.internal.framework.EquinoxBundle.startWorker0(EquinoxBundle.java:1002) at org.eclipse.osgi.internal.framework.EquinoxBundle$EquinoxModule.startWorker(EquinoxBundle.java:354) at org.eclipse.osgi.container.Module.doStart(Module.java:581) at org.eclipse.osgi.container.Module.start(Module.java:449) at org.eclipse.osgi.framework.util.SecureAction.start(SecureAction.java:468) at org.eclipse.osgi.internal.hooks.EclipseLazyStarter.postFindLocalClass(EclipseLazyStarter.java:114) at org.eclipse.osgi.internal.loader.classpath.ClasspathManager.findLocalClass(ClasspathManager.java:505) at org.eclipse.osgi.internal.loader.ModuleClassLoader.findLocalClass(ModuleClassLoader.java:328) at org.eclipse.osgi.internal.loader.BundleLoader.findLocalClass(BundleLoader.java:392) at org.eclipse.osgi.internal.loader.BundleLoader.findClassInternal(BundleLoader.java:470) at org.eclipse.osgi.internal.loader.BundleLoader.findClass(BundleLoader.java:419) at org.eclipse.osgi.internal.loader.BundleLoader.findClass(BundleLoader.java:411) at org.eclipse.osgi.internal.loader.ModuleClassLoader.loadClass(ModuleClassLoader.java:150) at java.lang.ClassLoader.loadClass(ClassLoader.java:357) at org.eclipse.osgi.internal.framework.EquinoxBundle.loadClass(EquinoxBundle.java:609) at org.eclipse.core.internal.registry.osgi.RegistryStrategyOSGI.createExecutableExtension(RegistryStrategyOSGI.java:177) at org.eclipse.core.internal.registry.ExtensionRegistry.createExecutableExtension(ExtensionRegistry.java:931) at org.eclipse.core.internal.registry.ConfigurationElement.createExecutableExtension(ConfigurationElement.java:243) at org.eclipse.core.internal.registry.ConfigurationElementHandle.createExecutableExtension(ConfigurationElementHandle.java:60) at org.eclipse.ui.internal.services.WorkbenchServiceRegistry.getSourceProviders(WorkbenchServiceRegistry.java:174) at org.eclipse.ui.internal.services.SourceProviderService.readRegistry(SourceProviderService.java:104) at org.eclipse.ui.internal.Workbench$34.runWithException(Workbench.java:2378) at org.eclipse.ui.internal.StartupThreading$StartupRunnable.run(StartupThreading.java:32) at org.eclipse.swt.widgets.Synchronizer.syncExec(Synchronizer.java:233) at org.eclipse.ui.internal.UISynchronizer.syncExec(UISynchronizer.java:144) at org.eclipse.swt.widgets.Display.syncExec(Display.java:5831) at org.eclipse.ui.internal.StartupThreading.runWithoutExceptions(StartupThreading.java:95) at org.eclipse.ui.internal.Workbench.initializeDefaultServices(Workbench.java:2373) at org.eclipse.ui.internal.Workbench.init(Workbench.java:1654) at org.eclipse.ui.internal.Workbench.runUI(Workbench.java:2859) at org.eclipse.ui.internal.Workbench.lambda$3(Workbench.java:654) at org.eclipse.core.databinding.observable.Realm.runWithDefault(Realm.java:336) at org.eclipse.ui.internal.Workbench.createAndRunWorkbench(Workbench.java:597) at org.eclipse.ui.PlatformUI.createAndRunWorkbench(PlatformUI.java:148) at org.eclipse.ui.internal.ide.application.IDEApplication.start(IDEApplication.java:152) at org.eclipse.equinox.internal.app.EclipseAppHandle.run(EclipseAppHandle.java:196) at org.eclipse.core.runtime.internal.adaptor.EclipseAppLauncher.runApplication(EclipseAppLauncher.java:134) at org.eclipse.core.runtime.internal.adaptor.EclipseAppLauncher.start(EclipseAppLauncher.java:104) at org.eclipse.core.runtime.adaptor.EclipseStarter.run(EclipseStarter.java:388) at org.eclipse.core.runtime.adaptor.EclipseStarter.run(EclipseStarter.java:243) at sun.reflect.NativeMethodAccessorImpl.invoke0(Native Method) at sun.reflect.NativeMethodAccessorImpl.invoke(NativeMethodAccessorImpl.java:62) at sun.reflect.DelegatingMethodAccessorImpl.invoke(DelegatingMethodAccessorImpl.java:43) at java.lang.reflect.Method.invoke(Method.java:498) at org.eclipse.equinox.launcher.Main.invokeFramework(Main.java:656) at org.eclipse.equinox.launcher.Main.basicRun(Main.java:592) at org.eclipse.equinox.launcher.Main.run(Main.java:1498) at org.eclipse.equinox.launcher.Main.main(Main.java:1471) Downstream issue: https://issues.jboss.org/browse/JBDS-4711
The org.eclipse.jgit.lfs feature is described as 'Java implementation of Git - optional LFS support' I assume that's UI support for https://git-lfs.github.com/ which appears to have been added a couple years ago. If this is optional, should its absence from installation be throwing a ClassNotFoundException, or should it just silently acknowledge LFS support isn't available? Or if it's no longer optional, should it be added to the default feature set in the JEE EPP bundle, or included in another feature so it's installed OOTB when a user installs egit?
See bug 535917 and bug 535954. To fix, install EGit/JGit 5.0.1, or the nightly build. EGit 5.0.1: http://download.eclipse.org/egit/updates/ EGit nightly: http://download.eclipse.org/egit/updates-nightly/ *** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of bug 535954 ***
*** Bug 540479 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***