From: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
Date: Mon, 15 May 2006 01:51:26 GMT
Subject: Re: [PATCH] Add "--summary" option to git diff.
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:
> 
> 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