Blank “Repositories View” with new Eclipse RCP 4.16 and Egit 5.8

Question

I have a problem when updating from egit 5.4 to 5.8 and also updating to latest Eclipse RCP 4.16. The clone operation works ok, but the "Repositories view" remains empty. The Added repos can be selected from the GitStaging view. No errors in the logs, how can I solve that?

The AddRepositories view This is how the addRepositories view look, I tried with brand new repos and also with existing ones. still they arent'd displayed in the Git Repositories view

Answer 1

The fix for this is overriding the following method in the ApplicationWorkbenchAdvisor class:

  @Override
  public IAdaptable getDefaultPageInput() {
     return ResourcesPlugin.getWorkspace().getRoot();
  }