Re: Segfault in git 1.8.1.5

From: Dennis Kaarsemaker <dennis@kaarsemaker.net>
Date: Mar 9, 2013, 21:13 UTC
Message-ID: <1362863609.29502.4.camel@localhost>
In-Reply-To: <2078462.OF4zRmv4ar@pablohp>

On za, 2013-03-09 at 21:16 +0100, Strasser Pablo wrote:

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> Hello,
> 
> I segfault with the following command:
> 
> git checkout HEAD~1
> git branch -u origin/master
> 
> I think it's because i'm in detached head.
> A error message like cannot use this command in would be a better responce 
> than a segfault.

Confirmed.

dennis@lightning:/tmp/hacks$ gdb --args ~/code/git/git branch -u origin/master (gdb) run Starting program: /home/dennis/code/git/git branch -u origin/master [Thread debugging using libthread_db enabled] Using host libthread_db library "/lib/i386-linux-gnu/libthread_db.so.1".

Program received signal SIGSEGV, Segmentation fault. cmd_branch (argc=0, argv=0xbfffec08, prefix=0x0) at builtin/branch.c:886 886 if (!ref_exists(branch->refname)) (gdb) bt #0 cmd_branch (argc=0, argv=0xbfffec08, prefix=0x0) at builtin/branch.c:886 #1 0x0804c26c in run_builtin (argv=0xbfffec08, argc=3, p=0x819f3f4 <commands.21695+84>) at git.c:273 #2 handle_internal_command (argc=3, argv=0xbfffec08) at git.c:435 #3 0x0804b656 in run_argv (argv=0xbfffeb74, argcp=0xbfffeb70) at git.c:481 #4 main (argc=3, argv=0xbfffec08) at git.c:556

But it's already been fixed by 8efb889: branch: segfault fixes and validation.

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Dennis Kaarsemaker
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