Re: User report on git 2.55.0

From: Ben Knoble <ben.knoble@gmail.com>
Date: Sep 4, 2026, 23:20 UTC
Message-ID: <A918E4C6-AF5B-47A8-B2FF-69E87F6118D1@gmail.com>
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> Le 4 sept. 2026 à 19:13, Ramkumar Ramachandra <r@artagnon.com> a écrit :
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> Ramkumar Ramachandra wrote:
>> brian m. carlson wrote:
>>> Do you maybe have some sort of security software running on your Mac?
>> 
>> I think it's clean, but it's still a possibility that the workplace
>> installed something recently: I don't see any other strange symptoms
>> with any other software though, and everything seems to working
>> reliably? Perhaps the most common task: I run llvm tests over 30 times
>> a day on different changes, and it never reports any spurious failures?
>> I will nevertheless ask the IT team at my workplace if something that I
>> can't see was installed. I don't use my personal laptop for llvm work,
>> so doing that comparison is not possible.
> 
> I found the malware: it's Crowdstrike Falcon x(

Hear hear. I haven’t observed issues with Git (based on next, I believe) I compile and install to $HOME at work, but I think we also use CrowdStrike Falcon. I’ll keep my eye out, but the scale of repos I deal with on that ‘puter doesn’t come close.