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Asked: 2026-06-01T17:47:33+00:00

[SOLVED] Somehow, I managed to not have write permissions to the .git directory. So

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[SOLVED] Somehow, I managed to not have “write” permissions to the .git directory. So was trying to write the commit and getting bounced.

I’ve been using Eclipse for a few months, but had been just running git from the CLI. I decided that was inefficient and that I wanted to use eGit, so I started following this tutorial (http://www.slideshare.net/loianeg/using-the-egit-eclipse-plugin-with-git-hub-2578587?from=embed).

I’m trying to add an existing project, so I did Team–>Share Project–>Git and selected the .git corresponding to my project. Eclipse seems to have picked it up, okay, but when I try to commit, I get a popup saying

“Committing changes has encountered a problem’ — an internal error occured.

When I click details, it say “An internal error occurred
Exception caught during execution of commit command”

…I don’t even know where to start on this one. I googled the error and didn’t get anything useful.

Anyone know how to fix this, or at least how to start debugging?

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  1. Editorial Team
    • start debugging?
      Check the “Errors” Eclipse view for a full Stack Trace associate with that error message

    Example of an Error View:

    Show Error View
    Eclipse Error View

    • fix it?
      If the Exception is a NPE one (NullPointerException), like shown in bug 329611, then you can try a git commit -m “a message” in a shell, in order to get past that initial first commit with a GUI.

    As the OP rogueleaderr mentions, the error view and the exact stack trace behind the exception was enough:

    Somehow, I managed to not have “write” permissions to the .git directory.
    So was trying to write the commit and getting bounced.

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