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From: Stefano Lattarini <stefano.lattarini@gmail.com>
Subject: Re: *** glibc detected *** git: double free or corruption (fasttop):
 0x0000000001fab820 ***
Date: Tue, 04 Jun 2013 18:24:59 +0200
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On 06/04/2013 05:46 PM, Jason Gross wrote:
> I get "*** glibc detected *** git: double free or corruption
> (fasttop): 0x0000000001fab820 ***" reliably on the following set of
> commands.  I'm working on a remote machine where I don't have
> administrative privileges, so I can't update from git 1.7.2.5 to a
> newer version.
>
Sure you can; install from a release tarball.  The page
<http://git-scm.com/downloads> links the latest version
(1.8.3) as well as older ones.

As for the issue you reported, I'll leave that to the real git
developers (I'm only a lurker here).

Regards,
  Stefano