From: Johannes Schindelin <johannes.schindelin@gmx.de>
Date: Sat, 20 Jan 2007 02:14:46 GMT
Subject: Re: SEGV in git-apply
Message-ID: <Pine.LNX.4.63.0701200312000.22628@wbgn013.biozentrum.uni-wuerzburg.de>
In-Reply-To: <20070120014851.GF5231@admingilde.org>

Hi,

On Sat, 20 Jan 2007, Martin Waitz wrote:

> Program received signal SIGSEGV, Segmentation fault.
> 0x080500fa in apply_patch (fd=5, filename=0xbf821b4d "/tmp/404241.patch",
>     inaccurate_eof=<value optimized out>) at builtin-apply.c:2504
> 2504                    if (pathlen <= prefix_length ||

It seems that the culprit is not this line (you have an optimized binary, 
so that is expected).

My guess is that your patch does not contain a new name, neither an old 
name.

It could also be that the filename has length 0.

But without that patch I cannot tell.

Ciao,
Dscho