I just watched Linus' presentation on Git and he claims there is NO WAY to 
loose data in a Git Repository. He was quite opinionated!!!

Does that mean that if it is bad, it was bad from the original check in?

On Feb 6, 2014, at 9:23 AM, Frank Cobia <[email protected]> wrote:

> If we could get them back, that would be great. I am not sure how this even 
> happened, so I am not sure how to get them back. Maybe someone has a copy of 
> the repository from before the corruption.
> 
> Frank
> 
> 
> On Feb 6, 2014, at 2:18 AM, Johann Werner <[email protected]> wrote:
> 
>> 
>> Am 04.02.2014 um 16:37 schrieb Frank Cobia <[email protected]>:
>> 
>>> I will give this a try and see if that fixes things for me. I am not sure 
>>> what sashWeights does, but I am not sure that is the problem. I have tried 
>>> doing similar things to this in the past and it would work for a while and 
>>> then go back to throwing the NPEs.
>>> 
>>> Here are the two things I did in the source to fix things. 
>>> 
>>> 1) There are a lot of source files with garbled comments. I am not sure 
>>> what happened there, but the comments seem to have been added years ago. I 
>>> think the files got corrupted somehow. The java compiler complains about 
>>> the characters not being UTF-8. Since they are not code and I don't know 
>>> how to recover the un-garbbled comments, I just deleted them.
>> 
>> Can those comments be resurrected from the repository history? Unfortunately 
>> besides those comments WOLips has no documentation (or is there?)
>> 
>>> 2) There is a kind of race condition. When you open the editor, while 
>>> preparing the editor, it makes a call that makes a call, that makes a call, 
>>> etc. Eventually that gets to a line that call core eclipse code. The core 
>>> eclipse code then tries to access the editor. The problem is that the 
>>> editor is still in the process of opening. There is probably a more elegant 
>>> way to fix this, since the problem is that it is trying to access a 
>>> variable that has not been set yet. The data that will be set already 
>>> exists in a temporary variable, so one possible fix could be to set the 
>>> variable sooner, but I am not sure if that would cause larger problems. 
>>> However, the line that was causing the problem, appeared, based on the 
>>> comment, to fix an obscure seldom encountered problem. So I commented that 
>>> line out and I have not had any problems.
>>> 
>>> Even if deleting that file fixes the current problem, if you go to Jenkins, 
>>> you will see that the source no longer compiles. So, the plugin still needs 
>>> to be fixed.
>>> 
>>> Frank
>>> 
>>> 
>>> On Feb 4, 2014, at 10:20 AM, Hugi Thordarson <[email protected]> wrote:
>>> 
>>>> This worked like a charm, thanks guys! :)
>>>> 
>>>> Cheers,
>>>> - hugi
>>>> 
>>>> 
>>>> 
>>>> On 4.2.2014, at 14:56, Jean-François Veillette 
>>>> <[email protected]> wrote:
>>>> 
>>>>> I do what Lars recommended and it work!
>>>>> 
>>>>> I did a compare of the file before/after and the only diff is the number 
>>>>> of that properties:
>>>>> org.objectstyle.wolips.componenteditor.sashWeights=805,194
>>>>> so you can simply remove that properties and it will work again.
>>>>> 
>>>>> From what I looked at, the fix from Frank Cobia was commenting out the 
>>>>> line culprit.  I did not looked enough to conclude if it was a real fix, 
>>>>> or a mere workaround for now.
>>>>> 
>>>>> jfv
>>>>> 
>>>>>>> De : Lars Sonchocky-Helldorf <[email protected]>
>>>>>>> Objet : Workaround for annoying NPE bug when opening WOComponent Editor
>>>>>>> Date : 22 octobre 2013 06:49:28 HAE
>>>>>>> À : "[email protected] List List" 
>>>>>>> <[email protected]>
>>>>>>> 
>>>>>>> Hi List,
>>>>>>> 
>>>>>>> I don't know if you're also affected by this, but all my coworkers 
>>>>>>> experience from time to time those annoying cascades of NPEs when 
>>>>>>> opening a WOComponent in the WOComponent Editor on Eclipse Kepler (4.3) 
>>>>>>> and WOLips 4.3 which, once they're happening, never go away by 
>>>>>>> themselves.
>>>>>>> 
>>>>>>> Now my coworker Tommy has found a workaround for this:
>>>>>>> 
>>>>>>> - shutdown Eclipse
>>>>>>> - delete 
>>>>>>> .metadata/.plugins/org.eclipse.core.runtime/.settings/org.objectstyle.wolips.wodclipse.core.prefs
>>>>>>>  from your workspace
>>>>>>> - restart Eclipse
>>>>>>> 
>>>>>>> -> everything should work fine now. When the problem recurs just delete 
>>>>>>> this file again.
>>>>>>> 
>>>>>>> 
>>>>>>> I hope this was helpful to some of you.
>>>>>>> 
>>>>>>> cheers,
>>>>>>> 
>>>>>>>         Lars
>>>>>> 
>>>>>> 
>>>>>> Le 2014-02-04 à 09:05, Hugi Thordarson <[email protected]> a écrit :
>>>>>> 
>>>>>>> I’m getting an error on 4.3 where if I open a component (the component 
>>>>>>> editor), it just shows up empty and then proceeds to throw bazillion 
>>>>>>> nullpointerexceptions at me.
>>>>>>> 
>>>>>>> I seem to recall having seen this before, but can’t for the life of me 
>>>>>>> remember what I did to fix it. Light any bulbs for anyone?
>>>>>>> 
>>>>>>> Cheers,
>>>>>>> - hugi
>>>>>>> 
>>>>>>> 
>>>>>>> 
>>>>>>> On 3.2.2014, at 13:55, Ken Anderson <[email protected]> wrote:
>>>>>>> 
>>>>>>>> 3.x does the same thing...
>>>>>>>> 
>>>>>>>> On Feb 3, 2014, at 8:47 AM, Frank Cobia <[email protected]> wrote:
>>>>>>>> 
>>>>>>>>> Unfortunately I got side tracked this weekend, so I did not get a 
>>>>>>>>> chance to clean up the code. 
>>>>>>>>> 
>>>>>>>>> However, I have not seen the issue you are describing in EOModeler. 
>>>>>>>>> There are times when the properties panel does not populate, but you 
>>>>>>>>> just have to click on something else and then click back. So it is 
>>>>>>>>> just an annoyance and not a problem.
>>>>>>>>> 
>>>>>>>>> Frank
>>>>>>>>> 
>>>>>>>>> 
>>>>>>>>> On Jan 31, 2014, at 12:22 PM, Lon Varscsak <[email protected]> 
>>>>>>>>> wrote:
>>>>>>>>> 
>>>>>>>>>> There was some wonkiness in the EOModeler tool too.  I vaguely 
>>>>>>>>>> remember you'd go to edit a field (like class name) and it would 
>>>>>>>>>> clear all the contents...so it was sort of impossible to work with.  
>>>>>>>>>> Did that ever get resolved?
>>>>>>>>>> 
>>>>>>>>>> 
>>>>>>>>>> On Fri, Jan 31, 2014 at 7:44 AM, Pascal Robert <[email protected]> 
>>>>>>>>>> wrote:
>>>>>>>>>> And Eclipse 4.x full support is one of the recurrent requests in the 
>>>>>>>>>> surveys!
>>>>>>>>>> 
>>>>>>>>>> De: "David Avendasora" <[email protected]>
>>>>>>>>>> À: "Frank Cobia" <[email protected]>
>>>>>>>>>> Cc: "WebObjects-Dev Mailing List List" 
>>>>>>>>>> <[email protected]>
>>>>>>>>>> Envoyé: Vendredi 31 Janvier 2014 09:41:56
>>>>>>>>>> Objet: Re: WOLips for Eclipse 4.3.1
>>>>>>>>>> 
>>>>>>>>>> 
>>>>>>>>>> Awesome! I would love to move forward!
>>>>>>>>>> 
>>>>>>>>>> On Jan 31, 2014, at 9:33 AM, Frank Cobia <[email protected]> wrote:
>>>>>>>>>> 
>>>>>>>>>> I have been using it for a few weeks now and it seems to be working. 
>>>>>>>>>> I will try to get it all cleaned up this weekend and then all I will 
>>>>>>>>>> need it help moving it from my personal guthub to the official 
>>>>>>>>>> project guthub.
>>>>>>>>>> 
>>>>>>>>>> Frank
>>>>>>>>>> 
>>>>>>>>>> 
>>>>>>>>>> On Jan 29, 2014, at 10:17 AM, Ken Anderson <[email protected]> 
>>>>>>>>>> wrote:
>>>>>>>>>> 
>>>>>>>>>> Frank,
>>>>>>>>>> 
>>>>>>>>>> While I volunteered to look at this at the last meeting, I have not 
>>>>>>>>>> had the time.  I would love to help, especially if you’ve gotten 
>>>>>>>>>> something going already which would alleviate the dreaded “figure it 
>>>>>>>>>> out first” problem.
>>>>>>>>>> 
>>>>>>>>>> Ken
>>>>>>>>>> 
>>>>>>>>>> On Jan 21, 2014, at 8:00 PM, Frank Cobia <[email protected]> wrote:
>>>>>>>>>> 
>>>>>>>>>> I finally got tired of being stuck with Eclipse 3.x and sat dow to 
>>>>>>>>>> figure out what was causing the "NullPointerException." 
>>>>>>>>>> 
>>>>>>>>>> I found the problem and fixed it and built it locally. I have been 
>>>>>>>>>> running it for a couple of days now without any problems. However, 
>>>>>>>>>> there are a couple of problems with getting this out to everyone:
>>>>>>>>>> 
>>>>>>>>>> 1) There were some libraries that were referenced with environment 
>>>>>>>>>> variables. I hard coded the paths (It was 4am). I could probably go 
>>>>>>>>>> back and fix this myself after a couple of days.
>>>>>>>>>> 
>>>>>>>>>> 2) I took out support for JRebel and JProfiler, because I did not 
>>>>>>>>>> want to track down any libraries those are dependent on (again it 
>>>>>>>>>> was 4am). Does anyone have experience with these parts?
>>>>>>>>>> 
>>>>>>>>>> 3) I am not very familiar with Git so I created my own repository 
>>>>>>>>>> (https://github.com/fcobia/wolips). Can someone help me get my 
>>>>>>>>>> changes moved into the official repository so that jenkins can be 
>>>>>>>>>> successful building for Eclipse 4.3?
>>>>>>>>>> 
>>>>>>>>>> Is there anyone interested in having a functioning WOLips for 
>>>>>>>>>> Eclipse 4.3 that could help me at least with numbers 2 and 3?
>>>>>>>>>> 
>>>>>>>>>> Thanks,
>>>>>>>>>> Frank
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