From 872462169ff63dfcd86ecb3f6e699686f1d3f725 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: James Moger <james.moger@gitblit.com>
Date: Thu, 17 Apr 2014 22:45:56 -0400
Subject: [PATCH] [findbugs] Add null check on decoding a string in StringUtils

---
 src/main/java/com/gitblit/utils/StringUtils.java | 2 +-
 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/src/main/java/com/gitblit/utils/StringUtils.java b/src/main/java/com/gitblit/utils/StringUtils.java
index 7605fe01..d7e1ea3d 100644
--- a/src/main/java/com/gitblit/utils/StringUtils.java
+++ b/src/main/java/com/gitblit/utils/StringUtils.java
@@ -642,7 +642,7 @@ public class StringUtils {
 				// ignore unsupported charsets
 			}
 		}
-		if (value.startsWith("\uFEFF")) {
+		if (value != null && value.startsWith("\uFEFF")) {
 			// strip UTF-8 BOM
             return value.substring(1);
         }
-- 
2.39.5