Patch Set 6:

when synchronizing egit master against v0.10.1 I get empty result, no errors in error log and console

when synchronizing linux kernel I immediately hit

eclipse.buildId=I20110603-0909
java.version=1.6.0_26
java.vendor=Apple Inc.
BootLoader constants: OS=macosx, ARCH=x86_64, WS=cocoa, NL=en_US
Framework arguments:  -product org.eclipse.sdk.ide
Command-line arguments:  -product org.eclipse.sdk.ide -data /Users/d029788/Documents/workspace/egit/../runtime-EGit(Indigo) -dev file:/Users/d029788/Documents/workspace/egit/.metadata/.plugins/org.eclipse.pde.core/EGit/dev.properties -os macosx -ws cocoa -arch x86_64 -consoleLog

Error
Thu Aug 18 00:25:48 CEST 2011
Unhandled event loop exception

java.lang.IllegalArgumentException: Empty path not permitted.
	at org.eclipse.jgit.treewalk.filter.PathFilter.create(PathFilter.java:80)
	at org.eclipse.jgit.treewalk.filter.PathFilterGroup.createFromStrings(PathFilterGroup.java:90)
	at org.eclipse.egit.core.synchronize.dto.GitSynchronizeData.setIncludedPaths(GitSynchronizeData.java:241)
	at org.eclipse.egit.ui.internal.synchronize.GitSynchronizeWizard.performFinish(GitSynchronizeWizard.java:74)
	at org.eclipse.jface.wizard.WizardDialog.finishPressed(WizardDialog.java:827)
	at org.eclipse.jface.wizard.WizardDialog.buttonPressed(WizardDialog.java:432)
	at org.eclipse.jface.dialogs.Dialog$2.widgetSelected(Dialog.java:624)
	at org.eclipse.swt.widgets.TypedListener.handleEvent(TypedListener.java:240)
	at org.eclipse.swt.widgets.EventTable.sendEvent(EventTable.java:84)
	at org.eclipse.swt.widgets.Display.sendEvent(Display.java:4125)
	at org.eclipse.swt.widgets.Widget.sendEvent(Widget.java:1457)
	at org.eclipse.swt.widgets.Widget.sendEvent(Widget.java:1480)
	at org.eclipse.swt.widgets.Widget.sendEvent(Widget.java:1465)
	at org.eclipse.swt.widgets.Widget.notifyListeners(Widget.java:1270)
	at org.eclipse.swt.widgets.Display.runDeferredEvents(Display.java:3971)
	at org.eclipse.swt.widgets.Display.readAndDispatch(Display.java:3610)
	at org.eclipse.jface.window.Window.runEventLoop(Window.java:825)
	at org.eclipse.jface.window.Window.open(Window.java:801)
	at org.eclipse.egit.ui.internal.actions.SynchronizeWithMenu$2.widgetSelected(SynchronizeWithMenu.java:180)
	at org.eclipse.swt.widgets.TypedListener.handleEvent(TypedListener.java:240)
	at org.eclipse.swt.widgets.EventTable.sendEvent(EventTable.java:84)
	at org.eclipse.swt.widgets.Display.sendEvent(Display.java:4125)
	at org.eclipse.swt.widgets.Widget.sendEvent(Widget.java:1457)
	at org.eclipse.swt.widgets.Widget.sendEvent(Widget.java:1480)
	at org.eclipse.swt.widgets.Widget.sendEvent(Widget.java:1465)
	at org.eclipse.swt.widgets.Widget.notifyListeners(Widget.java:1270)
	at org.eclipse.swt.widgets.Display.runDeferredEvents(Display.java:3971)
	at org.eclipse.swt.widgets.Display.readAndDispatch(Display.java:3610)
	at org.eclipse.ui.internal.Workbench.runEventLoop(Workbench.java:2696)
...