From: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Date: Thu, 30 Jul 2009 06:34:46 GMT
Subject: Re: Fw: Null deref in recursive merge in df73af5f667a479764d2b2195cb0cb60b0b89e3d
Message-ID: <7vy6q6k7ax.fsf@alter.siamese.dyndns.org>
In-Reply-To: <20090729161030.GA3848@localhost>

Clemens Buchacher <drizzd@aon.at> writes:

> Yeah, if process_entry leaves unmerged entries, write_tree_from_memory will
> return NULL. I can reproduce with the following script (same principle as
> t7405).

Your script does not seem to cause write_tree_from_memory() to be called
with an unmerged index while it tries to create a virtual commit.