From 72f7b1f1d48237f7fd078027ae74102726fd57cf Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: James Moger <james.moger@gitblit.com>
Date: Mon, 12 May 2014 08:48:06 -0400
Subject: [PATCH] Merged #71 "Can not assign responsible when anonymous push is enabled"

---
 src/main/java/com/gitblit/utils/StringUtils.java |    2 +-
 1 files changed, 1 insertions(+), 1 deletions(-)

diff --git a/src/main/java/com/gitblit/utils/StringUtils.java b/src/main/java/com/gitblit/utils/StringUtils.java
index 7605fe0..d7e1ea3 100644
--- a/src/main/java/com/gitblit/utils/StringUtils.java
+++ b/src/main/java/com/gitblit/utils/StringUtils.java
@@ -642,7 +642,7 @@
 				// ignore unsupported charsets
 			}
 		}
-		if (value.startsWith("\uFEFF")) {
+		if (value != null && value.startsWith("\uFEFF")) {
 			// strip UTF-8 BOM
             return value.substring(1);
         }

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