From: Jeff King <peff@peff.net>
Date: Wed, 10 Apr 2013 19:54:32 GMT
Subject: Re: segfault in git-remote-http
Message-ID: <20130410195432.GB24177@sigill.intra.peff.net>
In-Reply-To: <20130410121625.7424bede4b3706c27e1388c1@lavabit.com>

On Wed, Apr 10, 2013 at 12:16:25PM -0700, rh wrote:

> > > This returns no error on the command line and produced the segfault
> > > reported by the kernel. git clone returns immediately.
> > 
> > It does correctly report a failed exit code. The lack of message is
> > because git assumes that the helper will produce a useful message
> > before dying, but obviously it doesn't.  There's already a patch[1]
> > to fix this, but it hasn't been merged yet.
> 
> Oh yeah, I didn't check $? but I got sidetracked seeing the segfault.

I forgot to link to the patch, but it's:

  http://article.gmane.org/gmane.comp.version-control.git/220427

-Peff