Symbolically linked directories prevent app from starting within Tomcat

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What steps will reproduce the problem?
1: using a symbolic link in the git.repositoriesFolder prevents Tomcat from 
starting the application.  I can remove the symbolic link, start Tomcat and 
successfully start gitblit, and then relink the directory and the application 
will run fine (until Tomcat needs to restart).

What is the expected output?
For the application to successfully start in Tomcat.

What do you see instead?
2014-10-07 15:20:10 [INFO ] ----[com.gitblit.manager.IRepositoryManager]----
2014-10-07 15:20:10 [INFO ] Repositories folder : /apps/gitrepos
2014-10-07 15:20:10 [INFO ] Identifying repositories...
Oct 07, 2014 3:20:13 PM org.apache.catalina.core.StandardContext listenerStart
SEVERE: Exception sending context initialized event to listener instance of 
class com.gitblit.servlet.GitblitContext
java.lang.NullPointerException
        at com.gitblit.manager.RepositoryManager.getRepositoryModel(RepositoryManager.java:705)
        at com.gitblit.manager.RepositoryManager.getRepositoryList(RepositoryManager.java:551)
        at com.gitblit.manager.RepositoryManager.start(RepositoryManager.java:156)
        at com.gitblit.manager.RepositoryManager.start(RepositoryManager.java:100)
        at com.gitblit.servlet.GitblitContext.startManager(GitblitContext.java:229)
        at com.gitblit.servlet.GitblitContext.configureContext(GitblitContext.java:186)
        at com.gitblit.servlet.GitblitContext.contextInitialized(GitblitContext.java:131)
        at org.apache.catalina.core.StandardContext.listenerStart(StandardContext.java:4973)
        at org.apache.catalina.core.StandardContext.startInternal(StandardContext.java:5467)
        at org.apache.catalina.util.LifecycleBase.start(LifecycleBase.java:150)
        at org.apache.catalina.core.ContainerBase.addChildInternal(ContainerBase.java:901)
        at org.apache.catalina.core.ContainerBase.addChild(ContainerBase.java:877)
        at org.apache.catalina.core.StandardHost.addChild(StandardHost.java:632)
        at org.apache.catalina.startup.HostConfig.deployDescriptor(HostConfig.java:670)
        at org.apache.catalina.startup.HostConfig$DeployDescriptor.run(HostConfig.java:1839)
        at java.util.concurrent.Executors$RunnableAdapter.call(Executors.java:471)
        at java.util.concurrent.FutureTask$Sync.innerRun(FutureTask.java:334)
        at java.util.concurrent.FutureTask.run(FutureTask.java:166)
        at java.util.concurrent.ThreadPoolExecutor.runWorker(ThreadPoolExecutor.java:1145)
        at java.util.concurrent.ThreadPoolExecutor$Worker.run(ThreadPoolExecutor.java:615)
        at java.lang.Thread.run(Thread.java:724)

What version of the product are you using? On what operating system?
gitblit 1.6.0
RHEL 5.5
Tomcat 7.0.52
Java: Oracle JDK 1.7.0_25

Please provide any additional information below.

Related to issue #217

Original issue reported on code.google.com by jli...@gmail.com on 7 Oct 2014 at 8:47

[GoogleCodeExporter]

I've found a bug in determining the relative path for a repo from the 
basefolder when using a symbolic link, which I have fixed.  But I think your 
problem was addressed before this by some fixes to repository cache handling.  
Either way, if you build from master I think it'll work better for you.

Original comment by James.Mo...@gmail.com on 10 Oct 2014 at 4:12

• Changed state: Queued
• Added labels: Milestone-1.6.1

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v1.6.1 released

Original comment by James.Mo...@gmail.com on 20 Oct 2014 at 9:36

• Changed state: Done