Subject: Re: BUG: diffcore-rename.c:1674: tracking failed somehow; failed to find associated dst for broken pair

From: Jeff King <[email-masked]>
Date: Fri, 20 Sep 2024 09:07:29 -0400

On Fri, Sep 20, 2024 at 11:22:28AM +0200, Olaf Hering wrote:

> The following issue left my terminal in a weird state.
> Is this a bug in the repository, or a bug in git 2.43/46?
> 
> set -ex
> pushd /dev/shm
> test -d x.git || git clone https://github.com/intel/linux-sgx.git x.git
> cd $_
> git checkout -b $PPID.$$ a53adeaab7a8176fabb415bfcdf6d29fe4060678
> d=external/ippcp_internal/inc
> git log -p -b -B -w --stat --follow "$d" |& tail
> cd $d
> git log -p -b -B -w --stat --follow . |& tail

Definitely a bug in Git, since we're hitting a BUG(). Looks like it
reproduces with just "-B --follow" on the path in question. Bisecting
leads to 9db2ac5616 (diffcore-rename: accelerate rename_dst setup,
2020-12-11). +cc Elijah.

-Peff