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From: Dave O <cxreg@pobox.com>
Subject: Re: Segfault during merge
Date: Thu, 7 May 2009 21:37:18 -0700 (PDT)
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On Thu, 7 May 2009, Johannes Schindelin wrote:

>> Hi, I've encountered a particular merge that causes a segfault, and was
>> able to successfully bisect git to commit 36e3b5e.
>
> As you already found the commit, you could have Cc:ed me already.  It is
> pure luck that I did not miss your bug report.

Sorry, didn't think to do so.

After some thought, I was able to come up with a simple script that
reproduces this crash.  I'm not sure what the policy on this list is for
attachments, so I've put it at this URL:

http://www.genericorp.net/~count/git-merge-crash

It requires bash and the perl /usr/bin/rename command for simplicity's
sake.  At the top of the script is a diagram of what it does.

Hopefully this helps you identify what's happening here.  Let me know if
I can help further.

     Dave