Re: Git 1.6.5-rc git clone unhandled exception using http protocol

[Michael Wookey <michaelwookey@gmail.com>]

2009/10/13 Johannes Sixt <j.sixt@viscovery.net>:
> Michael Wookey schrieb:
>> Using the above repository, I see the same crash with msysGit at git
>> revision 1.6.5. Using windbg as the post-mortem debugger, the
>> following information is captured:
>> [ ... snip ... ]
> Wow, this is great work, thank you very much! The function is
> strip_path_suffix(). And here is a patch that fixes the crash.
>
> --- >8 ---
> From: Johannes Sixt <j6t@kdbg.org>
> Subject: [PATCH] remote-curl: add missing initialization of argv0_path
>
> All programs, in particular also the stand-alone programs (non-builtins)
> must call git_extract_argv0_path(argv[0]) in order to help builds that
> derive the installation prefix at runtime, such as the MinGW build.
> Without this call, the program segfaults (or raises an assertion
> failure).
>
> Signed-off-by: Johannes Sixt <j6t@kdbg.org>
> ---
>  remote-curl.c |    1 +
>  1 files changed, 1 insertions(+), 0 deletions(-)
>
> diff --git a/remote-curl.c b/remote-curl.c
> index ad6a163..d8d276a 100644
> --- a/remote-curl.c
> +++ b/remote-curl.c
> @@ -82,6 +82,7 @@ int main(int argc, const char **argv)
>        const char *url;
>        struct walker *walker = NULL;
>
> +       git_extract_argv0_path(argv[0]);
>        setup_git_directory();
>        if (argc < 2) {
>                fprintf(stderr, "Remote needed\n");
> --
> 1.6.5.1024.g31034.dirty

No more crashes for me :)

Tested-by: Michael Wookey <michaelwookey@gmail.com>