Error in Eclipse

Classic Servoy
1

I keep seeing this error repeated on new installation of Servoy.

eclipse.buildId=unknown
java.version=1.6.0_20
java.vendor=Sun Microsystems Inc.
BootLoader constants: OS=win32, ARCH=x86, WS=win32, NL=en_US
Command-line arguments:  -os win32 -ws win32 -arch x86

Error
Mon Apr 13 20:08:33 ICT 2015
An internal error occurred during: "Computing Git status for repository MyRepo".

java.util.regex.PatternSyntaxException: Unexpected internal error near index 11
\.metadata\
           ^
	at java.util.regex.Pattern.error(Unknown Source)
	at java.util.regex.Pattern.compile(Unknown Source)
	at java.util.regex.Pattern.<init>(Unknown Source)
	at java.util.regex.Pattern.compile(Unknown Source)
	at org.eclipse.jgit.ignore.internal.Strings.convertGlob(Strings.java:352)
	at org.eclipse.jgit.ignore.internal.WildCardMatcher.<init>(WildCardMatcher.java:66)
	at org.eclipse.jgit.ignore.internal.PathMatcher.createNameMatcher0(PathMatcher.java:145)
	at org.eclipse.jgit.ignore.internal.PathMatcher.createPathMatcher(PathMatcher.java:127)
	at org.eclipse.jgit.ignore.FastIgnoreRule.<init>(FastIgnoreRule.java:112)
	at org.eclipse.jgit.ignore.IgnoreNode.parse(IgnoreNode.java:114)
	at org.eclipse.jgit.treewalk.WorkingTreeIterator$RootIgnoreNode.loadRulesFromFile

(WorkingTreeIterator.java:1294)
	at org.eclipse.jgit.treewalk.WorkingTreeIterator$RootIgnoreNode.load(WorkingTreeIterator.java:1279)
	at org.eclipse.jgit.treewalk.WorkingTreeIterator.getIgnoreNode(WorkingTreeIterator.java:649)
	at org.eclipse.jgit.treewalk.WorkingTreeIterator.isEntryIgnored(WorkingTreeIterator.java:617)
	at org.eclipse.jgit.treewalk.WorkingTreeIterator.isEntryIgnored(WorkingTreeIterator.java:600)
	at org.eclipse.jgit.treewalk.WorkingTreeIterator.isEntryIgnored(WorkingTreeIterator.java:587)
	at org.eclipse.jgit.treewalk.filter.IndexDiffFilter.include(IndexDiffFilter.java:157)
	at org.eclipse.jgit.treewalk.filter.AndTreeFilter$List.include(AndTreeFilter.java:163)
	at org.eclipse.jgit.treewalk.TreeWalk.next(TreeWalk.java:560)
	at org.eclipse.jgit.lib.IndexDiff.diff(IndexDiff.java:432)
	at org.eclipse.egit.core.internal.indexdiff.IndexDiffCacheEntry.calcIndexDiffDataFull

(IndexDiffCacheEntry.java:538)
	at org.eclipse.egit.core.internal.indexdiff.IndexDiffCacheEntry.access$6

(IndexDiffCacheEntry.java:527)
	at org.eclipse.egit.core.internal.indexdiff.IndexDiffCacheEntry$4.run(IndexDiffCacheEntry.java:294)
	at org.eclipse.core.internal.jobs.Worker.run(Worker.java:53)
2

If I re-install then the error does not appear if following updates are not run:

Eclipse Git Team Provider 3.7.0.201502260915-r
Eclipse Git Team Provider - Task focused interface 3.7.0.201502260915-r
Mylyn Context Connector: Eclipse IDE 3.9.2.v20140211-0100
Mylyn Versions Connector: Git 1.1.2.v20140211-0100
Servoy Developer 7.4.3.2036

servoy_updates.png
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3

try a new clean workspace and install all the latest features/plugins you want/have

then import the git repo again.

I find it a bit weird that it complains about /.metadata thats a dir inside the workspace but git should not really touch it (its a configuration dir of eclipse itself)