Re: Git 2.19 Segmentation fault 11 on macOS

From: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Date: Sep 11, 2018, 16:48 UTC
Message-ID: <xmqqa7ooq8to.fsf@gitster-ct.c.googlers.com>
In-Reply-To: <fd241679-2283-4e01-315b-db27be8a794c@gmail.com>

Derrick Stolee <stolee@gmail.com> writes:

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> On 9/11/2018 12:04 PM, Derrick Stolee wrote:
>
>> The patch below includes a test that fails on Mac OSX with a segfault.
> ...
> Sorry, nevermind. The test failed for a different reason:

Even if it is for a different reason, segfaulting is not acceptable, but it seems it is failing quite normally.

Shucks.  It sounded too easy to get a reproduction like so X-<.

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> 2018-09-11T16:02:20.2680990Z ++ git range-diff changed-message
> 'HEAD@{2}' HEAD
> 2018-09-11T16:02:20.2779250Z fatal: Log for 'HEAD' only has 2 entries.
> 2018-09-11T16:02:20.2802520Z error: could not parse log for
> 'changed-message..HEAD@{2}'
> 2018-09-11T16:02:20.2817470Z error: last command exited with $?=255
> 2018-09-11T16:02:20.2832300Z not ok 12 - amend and check
>
> Ryenus, it would help if you could create and push the following
> branches based on your local repro:
>
>     git branch base HEAD@{2}
>
>     git branch topic HEAD
>
>     git push origin base topic
>
> Also, does the following command fail, after creating the branches?
>
>     git range-diff origin/master base topic

Yup, that is a very sensible way to get a reliable reproduction.

Thanks for helping.