From: Jeff King <peff@peff.net>
Date: Thu, 15 Jun 2017 13:03:31 GMT
Subject: Re: [BUG] git cherry-pick segfaults with local changes in working directory
Message-ID: <20170615130331.tak725h2i3fe7npw@sigill.intra.peff.net>
In-Reply-To: <1497523056.2239.107.camel@centricular.com>

On Thu, Jun 15, 2017 at 01:37:36PM +0300, Sebastian Dröge wrote:

> > Note that the tarball doesn't have all the necessary objects. Its
> > .git/objects/info/alternates points to another full clone of
> > git://anongit.freedesktop.org/gstreamer/gst-plugins-good.
> 
> Ah good to know, I thought this only happens if you clone with
> --reference and not otherwise.

If you do a local-filesystem clone of a repository with alternates, the
clone will have the same alternates. So I'm guessing you may have done
such a clone of your --reference repository as part of preparing the
tarball.

-Peff