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fatal error when diffing changed symlinks

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CMChristophe Macabiau <christophemacabiau@gmail.com>
Date
Feb 24, 2017, 11:47 UTC
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Hi,
with the commands below, you will get :
> fatal: bad object 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000
> show 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000: command returned error: 128
>
I am using version 2.5.5 fedora 23

cd /tmp mkdir a cd a git init touch b ln -s b c git add . git commit -m 'first' touch d rm c ln -s d c git difftool --dir-diff

Thanks for your feedback,
Christophe
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