I tried to fump the whole history of qemu with format-patch. It crashes both with v2.0.0-rc2-21-g6087111 and with git 1.8.3.1: ~/opt/libexec/git-core/git-format-patch --follow -o patches/all e63c3dc74bfb90e4522d075d0d5a7600c5145745.. Backtrace: Program received signal SIGSEGV, Segmentation fault. 0x0814d9d5 in try_to_follow_renames (opt=0xffffc8e4, base=base@entry=0x816e4fe "", t2=0xffffbdf0, t1=0xffffbddc) at tree-diff.c:227 227 diff_opts.single_follow = opt->pathspec.items[0].match; Missing separate debuginfos, use: debuginfo-install openssl-libs-1.0.1e-37.fc19.1.i686 (gdb) p opt $1 = (struct diff_options *) 0xffffc8e4 (gdb) where #0 0x0814d9d5 in try_to_follow_renames (opt=0xffffc8e4, base=base@entry=0x816e4fe "", t2=0xffffbdf0, t1=0xffffbddc) at tree-diff.c:227 #1 diff_tree_sha1 (old=0x97469b4 "\372\022\366\336k\345\236\362\062K\021\236\300\227\036\302\217\251\202f", new=new@entry=0x9746994 "$\305H\250)\237\203\266ya\311W\n\274 \n\027^*\221", base=base@entry=0x816e4fe "", opt=opt@entry=0xffffc8e4) at tree-diff.c:305 #2 0x080fb83d in log_tree_diff (log=0xffffbf28, commit=0x9734730, opt=0xffffc618) at log-tree.c:780 #3 log_tree_commit (opt=opt@entry=0xffffc618, commit=commit@entry=0x9734730) at log-tree.c:810 #4 0x08088406 in cmd_format_patch (argc=<optimized out>, argv=0xffffccc4, prefix=0x0) at builtin/log.c:1510 #5 0x0804c666 in run_builtin (argv=0xffffccc4, argc=5, p=0x81cb524 <commands+420>) at git.c:314 #6 handle_builtin (argc=5, argv=0xffffccc4) at git.c:487 #7 0x0804bc22 in main (argc=5, av=0xffffccc4) at git.c:584 (gdb) p opt->pathspec.items $2 = (struct pathspec_item *) 0x0 Did not debug further: could be related to the fact swap is disabled on my box, so attempts to allocate huge amounts of RAM might fail. Still should not segv I think ... -- MST -- 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