Today when I push a long run repository, git complains: $ git push -u github master:doc-tech Counting objects: 5575, done. Delta compression using up to 8 threads. Compressing objects: 100% (2560/2560), done. remote: error: object b798e3ffca56af58c2a7728d75027212a558b6d3:invalid author/committer line - missing space before email remote: fatal: Error in object error: pack-objects died of signal 13 error: failed to push some refs to ... When I check the commit, git will segfault: $ git show b798e3ffca56af58c2a7728d75027212a558b6d3 Segmentation fault: 11 But git v1.8.1 works without difficulty, only with a suspect datetime. $ gitv1.8.1 log -1 b798e3ffca56af58c2a7728d75027212a558b6d3 commit b798e3ffca56af58c2a7728d75027212a558b6d3 Author: leiweiwei<leiww@xxxxxxxxxxxx> Date: Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 +0000 add blog/typo.mm. Detail of this commit. (Note that username and email is insane.) $ gitv1.8.1 cat-file commit b798e3ffca56af58c2a7728d75027212a558b6d3 tree a1fcf9257bfbcd75f8c9aa931d1e89dbc60ae308 parent 566f0a6489316db9c9dd12bfda51ffc75a24a9b0 author leiweiwei<leiww@xxxxxxxxxxxx> <leiweiwei<leiww@xxxxxxxxxxxx>> 1261964093 +0800 committer leiweiwei<leiww@xxxxxxxxxxxx> <leiweiwei<leiww@xxxxxxxxxxxx>> 1261964093 +0800 add blog/typo.mm. Because git v1.8.1 is good and v1.8.2 is bad, so I run a `git bisect` on it, then I find this issue was was introduced in v1.8.1-rc1-7-g3c020bd. commit 3c020bd528d5dc320b82bd787670edfe6695f097 Author: Antoine Pelisse <apelisse@xxxxxxxxx> Date: Sat Jan 5 22:26:38 2013 +0100 Use split_ident_line to parse author and committer Currently blame.c::get_acline(), pretty.c::pp_user_info() and shortlog.c::insert_one_record() are parsing author name, email, time and tz themselves. Use ident.c::split_ident_line() for better code reuse. Signed-off-by: Antoine Pelisse <apelisse@xxxxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@xxxxxxxxx> Backtrace for this segfault: (gdb) bt #0 0x00007fff8d8959ae in strtoul_l () #1 0x000000010012da4a in pp_user_info () #2 0x000000010012f811 in pp_header () #3 0x000000010012f546 in pretty_print_commit () #4 0x000000010010dd1f in show_log () #5 0x000000010010e601 in log_tree_commit () #6 0x00000001000565f1 in cmd_log_walk () #7 0x0000000100056c5c in cmd_show () #8 0x0000000100002710 in run_builtin () #9 0x0000000100001717 in handle_internal_command () #10 0x0000000100001f39 in run_argv () #11 0x000000010000155d in main () This patch can fix it. Jiang Xin (1): Fix segfault for insane ident line builtin/blame.c | 14 +++++++++++--- pretty.c | 9 +++++++-- 2 files changed, 18 insertions(+), 5 deletions(-) -- 1.8.2.1.348.gb94490b -- 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