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Re: free(): invalid pointer, error: git died of signal 6 and error: git died of signal 11

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René Scharfe <l.s.r@web.de>
Date
Feb 15, 2025, 13:58 UTC
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Am 15.02.25 um 03:09 schrieb Christoph Anton Mitterer:
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> Hey.
>
> I see some weird segfaults on a fresh repo.
> It has just one commit with license files, then branch from master in
> which I have a staged an initial skeleton program.
>
> From there when I do a
>   git dt
> (which is an alias `dt = difftool --dir-diff`) I get most of the time:
>
> $ git dt
> error: git died of signal 11

This is a know bug fixed by 98e4015593 (builtin/difftool: intialize some hashmap variables, 2024-11-12), included in v2.48.0.

René
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  1. Christoph Anton MittererFeb 15, 2025
  2. Christian CouderFeb 15, 2025
  3. Christoph Anton MittererFeb 20, 2025
  4. René ScharfeFeb 15, 2025

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