Re: Homebrew and Git

From: Heiko Voigt <hvoigt@hvoigt.net>
Date: Sep 20, 2016, 11:02 UTC
Message-ID: <20160920110228.GA64315@book.hvoigt.net>
In-Reply-To: <trinity-9c8f1bd1-d6be-48f3-8575-03be09bd1243-1474213828361@3capp-gmx-bs53>

Hi,

On Sun, Sep 18, 2016 at 05:50:28PM +0200, Jonas Thiel wrote:

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> A while ago I have described my problem with Homebrew at the following
> GitHub channel
> (https://github.com/Homebrew/homebrew-core/issues/2970). In the
> meanwhile, I believe that I my problem with Homebrew is based on an
> issues with my Git. I have found the attached Git Crash reports on my
> Mac and because I am not familiar with reading/analysing Crash
> Reports, it would be great if someone could give me some feedback on
> it.
>  
> If you have any question, please do not hesitate to contact me.

From your crash reports I see that git is apparently crashing in a strchr() call from within ident_default_email() which is a function that tries to assemble a name and email to put into your commits.

Can you post us the output of

	hostname -f

and

	whoami

Since it seems you are using an Apple git can you also give us the output of

	git version

Since it seems that Apple is compiling its own git (and not publishing the changes they made conveniently via git). Have you tried installing a vanilla git via homebrew and seeing whether that also produces the issue?

In your bugreport you are talking about modifications you do to your system after which the issue occurred. I would suggest to exactly find out which step lead to git crashing (if it actually is the issue). First to identify an issue we need something that is reproduceable.

Cheers Heiko