From: Teemu Likonen <tlikonen@iki.fi>
Date: Tue, 24 Jun 2008 18:57:23 GMT
Subject: Re: Segmentation fault on http clone, post-1.5.6
Message-ID: <20080624185723.GA3368@mithlond.arda.local>
In-Reply-To: <20080624164034.GB4654@sigill.intra.peff.net>

Jeff King wrote (2008-06-24 12:40 -0400):

> On Tue, Jun 24, 2008 at 04:04:57PM +0300, Teemu Likonen wrote:
> 
> > With the current "master" branch version (29b0d0191) I get
> > segmentation fault when trying to clone a git repo with http
> > protocol. Tried a couple of times and it's always reproducible. You
> > can test with the following repository (about 5.5 MB):
> > 
> >   git clone http://www.iki.fi/tlikonen/voikko.git
> 
> I can't reproduce the segfault here.
> 
> > I also build git from the tag v1.5.6 and it seems to work fine, so
> > I guess the bug was introduced after 1.5.6.
> 
> That sounds like an excellent opportunity to learn about git-bisect.
> Can you try bisecting the bug and reporting back the problematic
> commit?

Indeed. I have now officially bisected the problem and the first bad or
problematic commit is 8eca0b47 "implement some resilience against pack
corruptions" (hence Cc to Nicolas, the author). This is always
reproducible in my Debian 4.0 box.