From: Chris Packham <judge.packham@gmail.com>
Date: Thu, 16 Jun 2016 05:02:02 GMT
Subject: Re: [bug] assertion in 2.8.4 triggering on old-ish worktree
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On Thu, Jun 16, 2016 at 4:59 PM, Chris Packham <judge.packham@gmail.com> wrote:
> Hi All,
>
> I have the git-sh-prompt configured in my .bashrc today I visited an
> old worktree that I haven't really touched in a few years (sorry can't
> remember the git version I was using back then). I received the
> following output when changing to the directory
>
> git: pathspec.c:317: prefix_pathspec: Assertion `item->nowildcard_len
> <= item->len && item->prefix <= item->len' failed.
>
> I assume it's one of the git invocations in git-sh-prompt that's
> hitting the assertion. Any thoughts on what might be triggering it?
> Any debug I can gather?

A bit more info. The directory in question is a uninitialised
submodule. It doesn't trigger in the root of the parent project.