The system logs for gedit contain lines like the following coming from the git
plugin:
Feb 6 11:21:47 colt org.gnome.gedit[1326]: Traceback (most recent call last):
Feb 6 11:21:47 colt org.gnome.gedit[1326]: File "/usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/gedit/plugins/git/windowactivatable.py", line 291, in root_changed
Feb 6 11:21:47 colt org.gnome.gedit[1326]: repo = self.get_repository(location, True)
Feb 6 11:21:47 colt org.gnome.gedit[1326]: File "/usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/gedit/plugins/git/windowactivatable.py", line 282, in get_repository
Feb 6 11:21:47 colt org.gnome.gedit[1326]: return self.app_activatable.get_repository(location, is_dir)
Feb 6 11:21:47 colt org.gnome.gedit[1326]: AttributeError: 'NoneType' object has no attribute 'get_repository'
Feb 6 11:21:47 colt org.gnome.gedit[1326]: Traceback (most recent call last):
Feb 6 11:21:47 colt org.gnome.gedit[1326]: File "/usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/gedit/plugins/git/windowactivatable.py", line 298, in inserted
Feb 6 11:21:47 colt org.gnome.gedit[1326]: repo = self.get_repository(location, msg.is_directory)
Feb 6 11:21:47 colt org.gnome.gedit[1326]: File "/usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/gedit/plugins/git/windowactivatable.py", line 282, in get_repository
Feb 6 11:21:47 colt org.gnome.gedit[1326]: return self.app_activatable.get_repository(location, is_dir)
Feb 6 11:21:47 colt org.gnome.gedit[1326]: AttributeError: 'NoneType' object has no attribute 'get_repository'
Incidentally, the version of the plugin included in the debian package seems to
be very old. The copyright information installed with the package is a decade
behind the latest release, though the year in the plugin's about dialog is only
about 3 years behind upstream.