Subject: Re: git fsck segmentation fault

From: Simon Hausmann <[email-masked]>
Date: Thu, 27 Nov 2008 20:10:20 +0100

On Thursday 27 November 2008 18:47:41 Nicolas Pitre wrote:
> On Thu, 27 Nov 2008, Simon Hausmann wrote:
> > Hi,
> >
> > when running git fsck --full -v (version 1.6.0.4.26.g7c30c) on a medium
> > sized
>
> That version doesn't exist in the git repo.

Ah, oops, it was a merge commit, corresponding to maint as of 5aa3bd.

> > (930M) repository I get a segfault.
> >
> > The backtrace indicates an infinite recursion. Here's the output from the
> > last few lines:
>
> [...]
>
> Could you try with latest master branch please?  It is more robust
> against some kind of pack corruptions that could send the code into
> infinite loops.

Same problem with git version 1.6.0.4.790.gaa14a

:-/

Simon