On Fri, Mar 28, 2014 at 03:43:29PM -0400, Eric Sunshine wrote: > On Fri, Mar 28, 2014 at 3:01 PM, Jeff King <peff@xxxxxxxx> wrote: > > On Fri, Mar 28, 2014 at 11:09:14AM -0000, Gerhard Grimm wrote: > >> git submodule init > >> > >> fails with the output > >> > >> Assertion failed: err == REG_ESPACE, file compat/regex/regexec.c, line 1096 > >> No submodule mapping found in .gitmodules for path 'module' > > > > The regexes we use here are not particularly complicated. So either > > there is a bug (but nobody else has reported anything on any other > > platform) or your system regex library has some problem with what we are > > feeding it. The simplest solution may be to compile with: > > > > NO_REGEX=YesPlease > > > > which will build and use the glibc implementation in compat/regex > > instead. > > Based upon the assertion-failure message, it looks like he's already > using compat/regex. Heh, I didn't even notice that. I just looked at all of the libc calls at the top of the backtrace, but of course that is just from assert() on up. So now it seems doubly odd to me, since it is running the same regex library that is used elsewhere. -Peff -- 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