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Segmentation fault git read-tree

From
LBLen Brown <lenb@kernel.org>
Date
Mar 14, 2008, 03:59 UTC
Message-ID
<200803132359.06745.lenb@kernel.org>

i pushed the branches necessary to reproduce this right before it happened, so you should be able to pull them and try it yourself.

thanks, -Len

[lenb@t61 acpi (test)]$ git push lenb
lenb@master.kernel.org's password:
Counting objects: 723, done.
Compressing objects: 100% (237/237), done.
Writing objects: 100% (492/492), 82.22 KiB, done.
Total 492 (delta 389), reused 337 (delta 249)
To master.kernel.org:/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/lenb/linux-acpi-2.6.git
   93d7446..dba92d3  linus -> linus
   93d7446..dba92d3  release -> release
   93d7446..c68a500  suspend -> suspend
   93d7446..5dceb6d  test -> test
[lenb@t61 acpi (test)]$ git merge test suspend
Already up-to-date with 5dceb6d3377c3cbd06f7b3282fec0e201273c302
Trying simple merge with c68a5009ab9938af22af668e0e2d646d2482c866
/home/lenb/bin/git-merge-octopus: line 52: 24287 Segmentation fault      git read-tree -u -m --aggressive $common $MRT $SHA1
Merge with strategy octopus failed.
[lenb@t61 acpi (test)]$ git merge test suspend
fatal: unable to create '.git/index.lock': File exists
Already up-to-date with 5dceb6d3377c3cbd06f7b3282fec0e201273c302
Trying simple merge with c68a5009ab9938af22af668e0e2d646d2482c866
fatal: unable to create '.git/index.lock': File exists
Merge with strategy octopus failed.
[lenb@t61 acpi (test)]$ git --version
git version 1.5.4.4.537.gb75aa
[lenb@t61 acpi (test)]$
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