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Re: [RFH] git-difftool fails to export GIT_DIFF_TOOL when running t7800 with valgrind over ssh

From
Thomas Rast <trast@student.ethz.ch>
Date
Jun 14, 2010, 15:03 UTC
Message-ID
<201006141703.28488.trast@student.ethz.ch>
In-Reply-To
<201006131251.11229.trast@student.ethz.ch>
Thomas Rast wrote:
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>   0x7fffc45381fb GIT_DIFF_TOOM=bad-tool
>   0x7fffc4538212 LD_PRELOAD=
>   0x7fffc453821e 
>   0x7fffc453821f MORE=-sl
>   0x7fffc4538228 GIT_DIFF_TOOK=bad-tool

If you considered looking into it, don't; it is a subtle string overrun bug in valgrind's environment mangling.

(Thanks anyway if you tried...  I really lost hope for a while there)
-- 
Thomas Rast
trast@{inf,student}.ethz.ch
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  1. Thomas RastJun 13, 2010
  2. Thomas RastJun 14, 2010

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