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[bug] assertion in 2.8.4 triggering on old-ish worktree

From
Chris Packham <judge.packham@gmail.com>
Date
Jun 16, 2016, 04:59 UTC
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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?

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