Hi Thomas, thanks for your interest in eclipse-egit. Problem you described is a known upstream bug [1]. Fix has not been released yet, I will package a new version of egit ASAP when it is out.
BR Jakub [1] https://bugs.eclipse.org/bugs/show_bug.cgi?id=349752
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