I suspect this has the same problem I pointed out to Kristian's attempt to make git-branch a built-in. Subject: Re: [PATCH] Implement git-branch and git-merge-base as built-ins. Date: Thu, 08 Jun 2006 11:53:48 -0700 Message-ID: <7vverbsclf.fsf@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> Namely, merge-base code is not set up to be called more than once without cleaning things up. - : send the line "unsubscribe git" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html