Eclipse hangs on “Re-indexing (fully) repository {username}”

Question

Eclipse hangs on \"Re-indexing (fully) repository /home/{username}\". It eventually crashes with \"java.lang.OutOfMemoryError: GC overhead limit exceeded\".

Why does

Answer 1

Eclipse Git triggers the indexing when the home directory is a git repository (i.e. contains a ".git" folder).

A workaround is to remove /home/{username}/.git

rm -rf /home/username/.git

References:

• https://bugs.eclipse.org/bugs/show_bug.cgi?id=413687
• https://bugs.eclipse.org/bugs/show_bug.cgi?id=393332