Re: git 2.16.0 segfaults on clone of specific repo

> On Fri, Jan 19, 2018 at 2:40 PM, Eric Sunshine <sunshine@sunshineco.com> wrote:
>> On Fri, Jan 19, 2018 at 12:31:58PM +0700, Duy Nguyen wrote:
>>> On Linux, after I hacked all over the place to force ce_match_stat()
>>> to eventually call index_fd() which in turns must use one of the
>>> hashing function, I got a crash.
>>
>> Nice detective work.
>
> And not stepping back to think for a bit. I realized now that if I
> just mounted a vfat filesystem, I could have verified it much quicker.
> It does crash on linux with similar stack trace.
> [...]
>> This particular manifestation is caught by the
>> following test which fails without brian's patch on MacOS (and
>> presumably Windows) and succeeds with it. On Linux and BSD, it will of
>> course succeed always, so I'm not sure how much practical value it
>> has.
>
> There's a travis job running "on windows" (I don't what it really
> means) so it might help actually. This vim-colorschemes repository has
> shown up in git mailing list before, I think. We probably should just
> add it as part of our regression tests ;-)