From: Eric Wong <normalperson@yhbt.net>
To: Durham Goode <durham@fb.com>
Cc: "git@vger.kernel.org" <git@vger.kernel.org>,
Jonathan Nieder <jrnieder@gmail.com>
Subject: Re: bug: git-svn seg fault during 'git svn fetch' due to perl < 5.10
Date: Sat, 19 Jan 2013 11:51:02 +0000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20130119115101.GA2559@dcvr.yhbt.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <2B10A89294DA6740AC6155F56842F9CE05234E6C@PRN-MBX01-2.TheFacebook.com>
Durham Goode <durham@fb.com> wrote:
> In git 1.8.1, when we do 'git svn fetch' on a large repo, we're seeing a
> seg fault. It's caused by git-svn trying to parse a large yaml file
> (introduced in
> https://github.com/git/git/commit/68f532f4ba888f277637a94b4a49136054df0540
> ) which encounters a perl regex stack overflow bug that was present in
> perl < 5.10 (https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=192400).
>
> We'll find a work around, but it'd be nice if there was a config setting
> to let us choose not to use the yaml format.
Maybe try a libyaml-based YAML module? I'm not too familiar
with YAML parsers in the Perl world. Hopefully Jonathan can help.
> Let me know if there's a better place to report this.
Yes, feel free to Cc: folks who signed-off/acked the change which
introduced the problem for you.
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2013-01-18 4:14 bug: git-svn seg fault during 'git svn fetch' due to perl < 5.10 Durham Goode
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