[jgit-dev] parents array not set correctly in a RevCommit

[Jan Finis <finis@xxxxxxxxx>]

Hi,

how can it happen that the parents array in a RevCommit is null even if 
the commit does indeed have parents (the EGit history view shows them 
correctly). Do I have to resolve those parents by hand or what could be 
the problem here? I haven't found any methods in RevCommit that allow me 
to resolve its parents.

Details:
The commit was aquired by first parsing a commit from a rev walk ( 
revWalk.parseCommit(ref.getObjectId()) ) and then following the parents 
hierarchy. The first parents array is not empty. But after taking the 
parent commit, its parents are empty. This leads me to believe that the 
parents fields are only set correctly if the commit was acquired via 
parseCommit.
How can I resolve those parents? Take the commit's object id and let the 
revWalk parse it?

best regards, thanks in advance,
Jan Finis