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Bug report: git freezes when `git mergetool` crashes

Subject: Bug report: git freezes when `git mergetool` crashes

## tl;dr

One message between Feb 6, 2019 and Feb 6, 2019.

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Tomas Tomecek· Feb 6, 2019, 20:32 UTC · lore

I am using vimdiff as my merge tool. Unfortunately, vim(diff) crashed and it froze my terminal completely, so I had to kill git. That was kinda painful since I lost some of the work I did.

My expectation is that git should be able to recover from mergetool crash.

I'm actually unsure if git can actually do something about this. Please let me know whether I should report this at vimdiff.

My environment is:

Fedora 29 vim-enhanced-8.1.847-2.fc29.x86_64 git-core-2.20.1-1.fc29.x86_64

Related bug report: https://github.com/rebase-helper/rebase-helper/issues/564

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