From ecf97083e59968723be4a26c1fc12bd69688ae87 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Robin Stocker <robin@nibor.org>
Date: Mon, 29 Oct 2012 20:48:38 +0100
Subject: [PATCH] [blame] Don't pass null to PersonIdent constructor

The API was changed to not allow null values anymore with
I0ac994ae8e47789d38f7c6e6db55d482f0f1bac3, leading to an IAE.

Bug: 393054
Change-Id: If33560ae976b46a02ff75b2e4ec05c13a8ad2d41
---
 org.eclipse.jgit/src/org/eclipse/jgit/blame/Candidate.java | 2 +-
 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/org.eclipse.jgit/src/org/eclipse/jgit/blame/Candidate.java b/org.eclipse.jgit/src/org/eclipse/jgit/blame/Candidate.java
index 5f20ce957..2e4e7844b 100644
--- a/org.eclipse.jgit/src/org/eclipse/jgit/blame/Candidate.java
+++ b/org.eclipse.jgit/src/org/eclipse/jgit/blame/Candidate.java
@@ -380,7 +380,7 @@ class Candidate {
 
 		@Override
 		PersonIdent getAuthor() {
-			return new PersonIdent(description, null);
+			return new PersonIdent(description, "");
 		}
 	}
 }