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

1 messages from 2019-02-06 to 2019-02-06. Participants: Tomas Tomecek.
Thread: https://gitlist.dev/t/50418

## Tomas Tomecek, 2019-02-06 20:32

Subject: Bug report: git freezes when `git mergetool` crashes
Message-ID: <CALJ-GUBGcpctd-tRBtAHJJiemUvNQTp_AwUKPNtX_8Hc9ehRAQ@mail.gmail.com>
URL: https://gitlist.dev/e/CALJ-GUBGcpctd-tRBtAHJJiemUvNQTp_AwUKPNtX_8Hc9ehRAQ%40mail.gmail.com
In-Reply-To: <CALJ-GUD+6+_zrpEiWcKe7JwmM2t24R_NLpkk3Kg8g0VevCo1MQ@mail.gmail.com>

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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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