Bug: .gitconfig folder
- From
- Jorge <griffin@gmx.es>
- Date
- May 27, 2015, 13:29 UTC
- Message-ID
- <5565C6A7.60007@gmx.es>
If you have a folder named ~/.gitconfig instead of a file with that name, when you try to run some global config editing command it will fail with a wrong error message:
"fatal: Out of memory? mmap failed: No such device"
You can reproduce it:
$rm ~/.gitconfig $mkdir ~/.gitconfig
$ls -la ~
...
drwxr-xr-x 24 hit hit 4096 may 4 12:30 .gimp-2.8
drwxr-xr-x 2 hit hit 4096 may 27 15:26 .gitconfig
drwxr-xr-x 6 hit hit 4096 may 27 14:01 github
...$git config --global user.name foo
fatal: Out of memory? mmap failed: No such device$git config --global core.editor "vim"
fatal: Out of memory? mmap failed: No such device