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Segfault with merge-tree on multiple Git versions

From
Charlie Smurthwaite <charlie@atechmedia.com>
Date
Mar 27, 2013, 15:29 UTC
Message-ID
<51531059.8000407@atechmedia.com>

I am experiencing a segmentation fault in various versions of Git using different repositories. Specifically, I have reproduced it using a public repo and the latest stable Git version. Other repos trigger the error on different versions.

Full info can be found below. Thanks,
Charlie

Test repository: https://github.com/atech/mail

Test Command git merge-tree 26bb22a052fef9f74063afd4fc6fc11fe200b19f 8d6bdf012941d876b2279994e02f1bb0d5c26e7d d5ef97ac407d945f231cd7c8fb1cfe48b3a12083

Environment: Linux codebase-staging 2.6.32-41-server #91-Ubuntu SMP Wed Jun 13 11:58:56 UTC 2012 x86_64 GNU/Linux

Git: git version 1.8.2

Output: charlie@codebase-staging:~/mail$ git merge-tree 26bb22a052fef9f74063afd4fc6fc11fe200b19f 8d6bdf012941d876b2279994e02f1bb0d5c26e7d d5ef97ac407d945f231cd7c8fb1cfe48b3a12083 Segmentation fault

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