Re: gitk crashes when quitting gitk while it is is reading commits (was Re: gitk crashing on Windows.)

From: Eric Raible <raible@gmail.com>
Date: Jul 28, 2008, 20:31 UTC
Message-ID: <279b37b20807281331t46866e92s72b0c5a6311cf2db@mail.gmail.com>
In-Reply-To: <E7C7B8BA-6050-40DE-917C-200EAE9CA6E8@zib.de>

On Mon, Jul 28, 2008 at 12:18 PM, Steffen Prohaska <prohaska@zib.de> wrote:

> I don't think so.  The error Jurko reported might be the same error
> that was reported earlier and filed as issue 125:
>
> http://code.google.com/p/msysgit/issues/detail?id=125

I agree - sounds the same.

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> I don't think the problem is Windows-specific.  At least on Mac I am
> seeing similar problems.  When I hit CTRL-q while gitk is still reading
> the commits, it crashes with as segfault.
>
>        Steffen

I also agree that it easily could be a generic problem. But the fact remains that it used to reliably crash on me, and no longer does with more recent source.

But I still can't find a relevant commit, which makes me feel like I'm a) still a complete git newbie, or b) imagining the whole thing.

- Eric