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Re: Bug with `git branch HEAD` in a 'detached HEAD' state

From
Stefan Beller <stefanbeller@googlemail.com>
Date
Aug 15, 2013, 20:58 UTC
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On 08/15/2013 10:50 PM, Benoît Legat wrote:
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> Hello everyone,
> 
> I think I have just found a bug in Git which basically occurs when I run
> `git log HEAD` in a detached HEAD state.
> To reproduce it, just run
> $ git init
> ...
> $ touch tmp
> ...
> $ git add tmp
> $ git commit -m "tmp"
> ...
> $ git checkout <commit_sha>
> ...
> $ git branch HEAD
> Segmentation fault (core dumped)
> 
> My version of git is the following
> $ git --version
> git version 1.8.1.2
> 
> If that helps (and even if it doesn't actually), I'm running ubuntu
> 13.04 64-bit.
> 
> Benoît Legat
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This should be fixed by 8efb8899cfe866dddb3659b9e0a94232161db65e (2013-02-23, branch: segfault fixes and validation)

I could reproduce with 1.8.1.2, but not on current master branch. If this annoys you too much, please update your git version. ;)

Stefan
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  1. Benoît LegatAug 15, 2013
  2. Stefan BellerAug 15, 2013

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