Copy of http://issues.hudson-ci.org/browse/HUDSON-8673.

The Git plugin v1.1.4 dumps an NPE when running on a linux slave v1.395. Note that it works when running on master. Had to rollback to 1.388.

Started by user anonymous
Building remotely on aab-suse-vm1
Checkout:test / /data/scm/hudson/workspace/test - hudson.remoting.Channel@e62a39:aab-suse-vm1
Using strategy: Default
Last Built Revision: Revision 69b63216de95988ad4d363e65701b7172936992d (origin/dev)
Checkout:test / /data/scm/hudson/workspace/test - hudson.remoting.LocalChannel@5d625d62
GitAPI created
Fetching changes from the remote Git repository
Fetching upstream changes from ssh://git.lmc.ericsson.se:29418/aab.git
[test] $ /pub/scm/tools/git/git-1.7.3/bin/git fetch -t ssh://git.lmc.ericsson.se:29418/aab.git +refs/heads/:refs/remotes/origin/
[test] $ /pub/scm/tools/git/git-1.7.3/bin/git ls-tree HEAD
[test] $ /pub/scm/tools/git/git-1.7.3/bin/git tag -l dev
[test] $ /pub/scm/tools/git/git-1.7.3/bin/git rev-parse origin/dev
FATAL: null
java.lang.NullPointerException
at hudson.plugins.git.GitAPI.revParse(GitAPI.java:182)
at hudson.plugins.git.util.DefaultBuildChooser.getCandidateRevisions(DefaultBuildChooser.java:75)
at hudson.plugins.git.GitSCM$2.invoke(GitSCM.java:843)
at hudson.plugins.git.GitSCM$2.invoke(GitSCM.java:740)
at hudson.FilePath$FileCallableWrapper.call(FilePath.java:1931)
at hudson.remoting.UserRequest.perform(UserRequest.java:114)
at hudson.remoting.UserRequest.perform(UserRequest.java:48)
at hudson.remoting.Request$2.run(Request.java:270)
at java.util.concurrent.Executors$RunnableAdapter.call(Executors.java:432)
at java.util.concurrent.FutureTask$Sync.innerRun(FutureTask.java:284)
at java.util.concurrent.FutureTask.run(FutureTask.java:138)
at java.util.concurrent.ThreadPoolExecutor$Worker.runTask(ThreadPoolExecutor.java:665)
at java.util.concurrent.ThreadPoolExecutor$Worker.run(ThreadPoolExecutor.java:690)
at java.lang.Thread.run(Thread.java:810)