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Re: What's in git.git

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Nicolas Pitre <nico@cam.org>
Date
May 10, 2006, 14:15 UTC
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On Tue, 9 May 2006, Linus Torvalds wrote:
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> 
> On Tue, 9 May 2006, Randal L. Schwartz wrote:
> 
> > >>>>> "Junio" == Junio C Hamano <junkio@cox.net> writes:
> > 
> > Junio> This week's "What's in" is a day early, since I do not expect to
> > Junio> be able to do much gitting for the rest of the week.
> > 
> > I just got this with the latest, on the git archive, using git-repack -a:
> > 
> > Generating pack...
> > Done counting 19151 objects.
> > Deltifying 19151 objects.
> > Segmentation fault (core dumped)
> > 
> > This is on OpenBSD.  Is there a secret sabotage afoot?  This is repeatable.
> > Is there anything I can try differently?
> 
> Can you see what the traceback is with gdb?
> 
> I'd suspect the deltifier changes, the rabin hash in particular. The core 
> file traceback would probably point right at the culprit if so.
> 
> I don't see the problem myself, but if it's an access just past the end of 
> an array or something, it would depend on exactly what the delta pattern 
> is (which, without the "-f" flag, in turn depends on what your previous 
> packs looked like) and also on the allocation strategy (which migth 
> explain why it shows on OpenBSD but Linux people hadn't seen it).

When linking with Electric Fence I can reproduce the segfault on Linux as well.

Looking into it now.
Nicolas
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Message 9 of 14 in “What's in git.git”
  1. Junio C HamanoMay 10, 2006
  2. Linus TorvaldsMay 10, 2006
  3. Linus TorvaldsMay 10, 2006
  4. Linus TorvaldsMay 10, 2006
  5. Junio C HamanoMay 10, 2006
  6. Linus TorvaldsMay 10, 2006
  7. Randal L. SchwartzMay 10, 2006
  8. Linus TorvaldsMay 10, 2006
  9. Nicolas PitreMay 10, 2006
  10. Alex RiesenMay 10, 2006
  11. Linus TorvaldsMay 10, 2006
  12. Junio C HamanoMay 10, 2006
  13. Martin LanghoffMay 10, 2006
  14. Jakub NarebskiMay 10, 2006

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