Re: seg fault in "git format-patch"

From: Christian Couder <christian.couder@gmail.com>
Date: May 31, 2015, 20:26 UTC
Message-ID: <CAP8UFD0Pi3_hF0+S3AXktD5NkBL_Q1mU_oN4fULyZemDEUr8Jg@mail.gmail.com>
In-Reply-To: <556B5D4C.4030406@gmail.com>

On Sun, May 31, 2015 at 9:13 PM, Bruce Korb <bruce.korb@gmail.com> wrote:

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> $ git format-patch -o patches --ignore-if-in-upstream
> 14949fa8f39d29e44b43f4332ffaf35f11546502..2de9eef391259dfc8748dbaf76a5d55427f37b0d
> Segmentation fault
> /u/gnu/proj/gnu-pw-mgr
> $ git format-patch -o patches
> 14949fa8f39d29e44b43f4332ffaf35f11546502..2de9eef391259dfc8748dbaf76a5d55427f37b0d
> patches/0001-remove-dead-code.patch
> patches/0002-dead-code-removal.patch
> patches/0003-add-sort-pw-cfg-program.patch
> patches/0004-add-doc-for-sort-pw-cfg.patch
> patches/0005-clean-up-doc-makefile.patch
> patches/0006-clean-up-doc-makefile.patch
> patches/0007-happy-2015-and-add-delete-option.patch
> patches/0008-fix-doc-Makefile.am.patch
> patches/0009-re-fix-copyright.patch
> patches/0010-finish-debugging-remove_pwid.patch
> patches/0011-only-update-file-if-something-was-removed.patch
> patches/0012-update-NEWS.patch
> patches/0013-bootstrap-cleanup.patch

Could you tell us which git version you are using? You can use "git --version". The operating system you are using could also be useful. And maybe you could also run git under gdb and give us the output of the "bt" (backtrace) gdb command when it crashes?

Thanks, Christian.