(cc-ing the Git for Windows maintainers)
Hi,

Wataru Noguchi wrote:

> Git for Windows crashes when clone Japanese multibyte repository.
> - Japanese Base Encoding is Shift-JIS.
> - It happens Japanese multibyte directory name and too-long directory path
> - Linux(ex. Ubuntu 13.04 amd64) can clone normally.
> - example repository is here:
>
> git clone https://github.com/wnoguchi/mingw-checkout-crash.git
>
> - The reproduce crash repository contains following file only.
>   - following directory and file name is encoded for this commit log.
>   - actually file name is decoded.]
>   %E6%97%A5%E6%9C%AC%E8%AA%9E%E3%83%87%E3%82%A3%E3%83%AC%E3%82%AF%E3%83%88%E3%83%AA%201-long-long-long-dirname/%E6%97%A5%E6%9C%AC%E8%AA%9E%E3%83%87%E3%82%A3%E3%83%AC%E3%82%AF%E3%83%88%E3%83%AA%202-long-long-long-dirname/%E6%97%A5%E6%9C%AC%E8%AA%9E%E3%83%87%E3%82%A3%E3%83%AC%E3%82%AF%E3%83%88%E3%83%AA%203-long-long-long-dirname/%E6%97%A5%E6%9C%AC%E8%AA%9E%E3%83%87%E3%82%A3%E3%83%AC%E3%82%AF%E3%83%88%E3%83%AA%204-long-long-long-dirname/%E6%97%A5%E6%9C%AC%E8%AA%9E%E3%83%87%E3%82%A3%E3%83%AC%E3%82%AF%E3%83%88%E3%83%AA%205-long-long-long-dirname/%E3%81%AF%E3%81%98%E3%82%81%E3%81%AB%E3%81%8A%E8%AA%AD%E3%81%BF%E3%81%8F%E3%81%A0%E3%81%95%E3%81%84.txt
> - only one commit.
>
> This commit reduce gcc optimization level from O2 to O1 when MinGW Windows environment.
>
> Signed-off-by: Wataru Noguchi <wnoguchi.0727@gmail.com>

Thanks.

> ---
>  git-compat-util.h | 2 ++
>  1 file changed, 2 insertions(+)
>
> diff --git a/git-compat-util.h b/git-compat-util.h
> index a31127f..394c23b 100644
> --- a/git-compat-util.h
> +++ b/git-compat-util.h
> @@ -90,6 +90,8 @@
>  #define WIN32_LEAN_AND_MEAN  /* stops windows.h including winsock.h */
>  #include <winsock2.h>
>  #include <windows.h>
> +/* reduce gcc optimization level to 1 */
> +#pragma GCC optimize ("O1")
>  #define GIT_WINDOWS_NATIVE
>  #endif

Do you know why reducing the optimization level avoids a crash?
Perhaps this is just masking the symptoms and the problem is still
lurking.

If changing the optimization level turns out to be the right fix, I
would prefer to see this change made in the Makefile instead of
git-compat-util.h.  That way, the user building can still easily
override the optimization settings to -O0 if they want to during a
debugging session.

What do you think?

Hope that helps,
Jonathan