From: Jeff King <peff@peff.net>
Date: Sun, 23 Oct 2011 16:29:44 GMT
Subject: Re: a bug when execute "git status" in git version 1.7.7.431.g89633
Message-ID: <20111023162944.GB28156@sigill.intra.peff.net>
In-Reply-To: <4EA415BD.1040109@lsrfire.ath.cx>

On Sun, Oct 23, 2011 at 03:25:17PM +0200, René Scharfe wrote:

> I can reproduce the malloc crash on Ubuntu 11.10 with these simple steps:
> [...]
> Bisect points to 2548183ba, "fix phantom untracked files when
> core.ignorecase is set" from Jeff (cc:d).  If I revert that patch from
> master (8963314c), git status works fine.

Hmm. Interesting. I can't reproduce here. And I've been running with
this patch for over a year, and never seen that. Given your fix, I guess
it's related to pointer size. Are you on a 32-bit machine, by any
chance?

-Peff