Re: [PATCH] Add "--summary" option to git diff.

From: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
Date: May 15, 2006, 01:51 UTC
Message-ID: <Pine.LNX.4.64.0605141848080.3866@g5.osdl.org>
In-Reply-To: <BAYC1-PASMTP02640E2C9813E4DA1E778BAEA30@CEZ.ICE>

On Sun, 14 May 2006, Sean wrote:

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> What's a bit more worrying is that:
> 
> $ PAGER= ./git whatchanged -B -C --stat --no-merges --diff-filter=RC
> 
> Causes the same problem on the current (1.3.2) release branch without any
> other patches applied at all.

If you have electric fence installed, just do

	PAGER= ef ./git whatchanged -B -C --stat --no-merges --diff-filter=RC

to run it with the efence preload, which should cause a core-dump and/or be more debuggable.

Sadly, last I tried, you can't run gdb under ef, because electric fence (incorrectly) thinks that zero-size allocations are bad.

		Linus