Re: Git Gui: Branch->create currently fails...

> Hi Pratyush,
> On 13/10/2019 19:50, Pratyush Yadav wrote:
> > Just to be sure it is a git-gui/Tcl issue and not an upstream 
> > git.git
> > issue, can you run:
> > 
> >    fmt='list %(refname) [list %(objecttype) %(objectname) [concat %(taggername) %(authorname)] [reformat_date [concat %(taggerdate) %(authordate)]] %(subject)] [list %(*objecttype) %(*objectname) %(*authorname) [reformat_date %(*authordate)] %(*subject)]'
> >    git for-each-ref --tcl --format="$fmt" --sort=-taggerdate refs/heads refs/remotes refs/tags
> > 
> > and see if the output contains that truncated line? If it does, then
> > that means the bug is in git-for-each-ref. Note that this is bash
> > syntax, and I did a test run on Linux. Do adjust it for Windows and your
> > shell if needed.
> 
> ran that bit of code (as distinct commands), and got (last two lines):
> 
> [list "" "" "" [reformat_date ""] ""]
> list "refs/heads/branch-patterns-v2" [list "commit"
> "d5a799d8833b0ae195915eefd5365f3fc4c7c0a4" [concat "" "Philip Oakley"]
> [reformat_date [concat "" "Sat Jun 8 22:50:06 2019 +0100"]]
> "t3203-branch-output: test -a & -r pattern options"] [list "" "" ""
> [reformat_date ""] ""]
> list "refs/heads/branch-patterns" [list "commit"
> "b2453cea29b58f2ec57f9627b2456b41568ba5da" [concat "" "Philip Oakley"]
> [reformat_date [concat "" "Tue May 28 20:22:09 2019 +0100"]] "squash! doc
> branch: provide examples for listing remote tracking branches"] [list "" ""
> "" [reformat_date ""] ""]
> list "refs/heads/MSVC-README" [list "commit"
> "056fb95c8e983ec07e9f5f8baa0b119bf3d13fed" [concat "" "Philip Oakley"]
> [reformat_date [concat "" "Sun May 19 22:33:37 2019 +0100"]]
> "compat/vcSegmentation fault
> 
> 
> Not exactly the same, but almost. Ends the same place, with as similar short
> line.
> This is run inside the bash that is started directly by the git-for-windows
> sdk start icon. (Target: C:\git-sdk-64\git-bash.exe   Stat in:
> C:/git-sdk-64/)
> 
> so looks to be MSYS2/bash related.