From: Guido Ostkamp <git@ostkamp.fastmail.fm>
Date: Tue, 15 Sep 2009 22:30:16 GMT
Subject: Re: Git crashes on pull
Message-ID: <alpine.LSU.2.01.0909160022430.24554@bianca.dialin.t-online.de>
In-Reply-To: <7vljkg57xs.fsf@alter.siamese.dyndns.org>

On Tue, 15 Sep 2009, Junio C Hamano wrote:

> Please try this patch, which I have been preparing for later pushout.
>
> From: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
> Date: Mon, 14 Sep 2009 14:48:15 -0700
> Subject: [PATCH] http.c: avoid freeing an uninitialized pointer
>
> An earlier 59b8d38 (http.c: remove verification of remote packs) left
> the variable "url" uninitialized; "goto cleanup" codepath can free it
> which is not very nice.
>
> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>

Appears to be working ok now, thanks.

BTW: Is there any way to easily invoke GDB in case of such a problem to 
get a real symbolic stack backtrace?

I tried it on the 'git' binary, but of course this didn't work because it 
invokes a git-pull script which again runs another git-remote-curl binary.

Regards

Guido