From: Johannes Schindelin Date: Tue, 10 Mar 2009 20:21:28 GMT Subject: Re: [BUG] - git-read-tree segfaults Message-ID: In-Reply-To: <35476bd20903101234q71bc520fh18828d7170a4a2f5@mail.gmail.com> Hi, On Tue, 10 Mar 2009, Jiri Olsa wrote: > mb=$($GIT merge-base HEAD yyy) > $GIT read-tree $mb HEAD yyy While I agree that it is a bad thing for Git to segfault, I think this here is a pilot error. You try to read 3 trees at the same time, but not perform a merge. IMHO you want to add -m at least. Ciao, Dscho