On Tue, Feb 19, 2013 at 5:24 AM, Zoltan Klinger <zoltan.klinger@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > Hi there, > > The new git-check-ignore command seg faults when > (1) it is called with single dot path name at $GIT_DIR level _AND_ > (2) and .gitignore has at least one directory pattern. > > Git version: 1.8.2.rc0.16.g20a599e > > Reproduce the bug: > $ git --version > git version 1.8.2.rc0.16.g20a599e > $ mkdir test > $ cd test > $ git init > $ git check-ignore . # All good, no errors here > $ echo "dirpattern/" > .gitignore > $ git check-ignore . > Segmentation fault (core dumped) > > The segmentation fault is actually caused by hash_name(const char > *name, int namelen) function in name-hash.c when the 'name' argument > is an empty stringi and namelen is 0. > > The empty string comes from a call to the prefix_path(prefix, len, > path) function in setup.c. In this instance arguments 'prefix' is > NULL, 'len' is 0 and 'path' is "." . Good catch! Thanks for the very helpful bug report. I can reproduce this, and have a fix - see follow-up mail to follow shortly. -- To unsubscribe from this list: 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