Re: git blame crashes with internal error

From: Alex Riesen <raa.lkml@gmail.com>
Date: Oct 14, 2007, 16:37 UTC
Message-ID: <20071014163702.GA2776@steel.home>
In-Reply-To: <20071014143628.GA22568@atjola.homenet>

Björn Steinbrink, Sun, Oct 14, 2007 16:36:28 +0200:

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> Hi Junio,
> 
> git blame just decided to crash on me, when I tried to use it while
> resolving a merge conflict. Interesting is probably, that it crashes
> when given the filename of a file that is not _directly_ affected by the
> merge, but contains code that originates from a file that caused
> conlicts.
> 
> Error message is:
> fatal: internal error: ce_mode is 0
>

It is not crashing. It is just not handling unexpected situation properly:

    $ testcase.sh
    ...
    Switched to branch "foo"
    CONFLICT (delete/modify): file1 deleted in HEAD and modified in master. Version master of file1 left in tree.
    Automatic merge failed; fix conflicts and then commit the result.
    fatal: internal error: ce_mode is 0
    $ git ls-files --cached --stage
    100644 72139f38953679bd19b3a7938c479d73c1aa7b59 1       file1
    100644 3181f904ce3f9364b08524edd262a7a2ac766c9c 3       file1
    100644 24e1ea80d6dcc497f60597b2a6d7cf65ecaa958a 0       file2

See? There is an unresolved merge.

The question is, what's the problem...