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From: Jorge <griffin@gmx.es>
To: git@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Bug: .gitconfig folder
Date: Wed, 27 May 2015 15:29:11 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <5565C6A7.60007@gmx.es> (raw)

If you have a folder named ~/.gitconfig instead of a file with that 
name, when you try to run some global config editing command it will 
fail with a wrong error message:

     "fatal: Out of memory? mmap failed: No such device"


You can reproduce it:

$rm ~/.gitconfig
$mkdir ~/.gitconfig

$ls -la ~
     ...
     drwxr-xr-x 24 hit  hit       4096 may  4 12:30 .gimp-2.8
     drwxr-xr-x  2 hit  hit       4096 may 27 15:26 .gitconfig
     drwxr-xr-x  6 hit  hit       4096 may 27 14:01 github
     ...

$git config --global user.name foo
     fatal: Out of memory? mmap failed: No such device

$git config --global core.editor "vim"
     fatal: Out of memory? mmap failed: No such device

             reply	other threads:[~2015-05-27 13:29 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 20+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2015-05-27 13:29 Jorge [this message]
2015-05-27 20:30 ` Bug: .gitconfig folder Junio C Hamano
2015-05-27 22:18   ` Jeff King
2015-05-27 22:24     ` Stefan Beller
2015-05-28  6:13       ` Jeff King
2015-05-27 22:38     ` Junio C Hamano
2015-05-28  7:51       ` Jeff King
2015-05-28  7:54         ` [PATCH 1/4] read-cache.c: drop PROT_WRITE from mmap of index Jeff King
2015-05-28  7:54         ` [PATCH 2/4] config.c: fix mmap leak when writing config Jeff King
2015-06-30 14:34           ` [PATCH] config.c: fix writing config files on Windows network shares Karsten Blees
2015-06-30 14:46             ` Torsten Bögershausen
2015-06-30 16:01               ` Jeff King
2015-06-30 14:52             ` Johannes Schindelin
2015-06-30 16:00             ` Jeff King
2015-05-28  7:56         ` [PATCH 3/4] config.c: avoid xmmap error messages Jeff King
2015-05-28  8:03         ` [PATCH 4/4] config.c: rewrite ENODEV into EISDIR when mmap fails Jeff King
2015-05-28 17:11           ` Junio C Hamano
2015-05-28 20:44             ` Jeff King
2015-05-28 21:11               ` Junio C Hamano
2015-05-28 17:06         ` Bug: .gitconfig folder Junio C Hamano

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