Re: git-merge-recursive segmentation error

[Luben Tuikov <ltuikov@yahoo.com>]

--- Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org> wrote:
> Can you run that by hand under gdb and get a backtrace?

Linus,

Auto-merging init/Kconfig
Auto-merging init/version.c

Program received signal SIGSEGV, Segmentation fault.
xdl_merge (orig=Variable "orig" is not available.
) at xdiff/xmerge.c:200
200                     t2.ptr = (char *)xe2->xdf2.recs[m->i2]->ptr;
(gdb) bt
#0  xdl_merge (orig=Variable "orig" is not available.
) at xdiff/xmerge.c:200
#1  0x000000000040322c in merge_file (o=0x7fffd4f762f0, a=0x7fffd4f76270, b=0x7fffd4f762b0,
branch1=0x7fffd4f77976 "HEAD", 
    branch2=0x7fffd4f7797b "cc016448b0bf0764928275d034e367753bde8162") at merge-recursive.c:667
#2  0x0000000000404e87 in merge_trees (head=0x12e4a00, merge=0x555328, common=0x555350,
branch1=Variable "branch1" is not available.
) at merge-recursive.c:1074
#3  0x0000000000405376 in merge (h1=0x5452f0, h2=0x545370, branch1=0x7fffd4f77976 "HEAD",
branch2=0x7fffd4f7797b "cc016448b0bf0764928275d034e367753bde8162", call_depth=0, 
    ancestor=0x5453f0, result=0x7fffd4f764e0) at merge-recursive.c:1245
#4  0x00000000004056a5 in main (argc=Variable "argc" is not available.
) at merge-recursive.c:1312

I also ran git-bisect twice over two well known but overlapping
good-bad regions and I get the same commit as being the culprit.
It seems to be commit 1510fea781cb0517eeba8c378964f7bc4f9577ab.

    Luben