Bogus corruption is bogus because I've reproduced it on different machines. I was trying to rewrite history in a small repos and replace indentation tabs with spaces. Steps to reproduce: git clone https://github.com/dvarrazzo/suponoff.git git checkout -b gitbug git config core.whitespace trailing-space,tabwidth=4,tab-in-indent,space-before-tab git rebase 6af85bcde9a30c3841b754bbb60c03ba58b88a50 --whitespace=fix error reported on crash is: Applying: Read configuration from supervisor config itself, added groups tags *** Error in `git': malloc(): memory corruption: 0x00000000023f9420 *** Tested with: CentOS Linux release 7.1.1503 (Core) git: 1.8.3.1 Linux 3.13.0-66-generic #108-Ubuntu SMP Wed Oct 7 15:20:27 UTC 2015 x86_64 x86_64 x86_64 GNU/Linux libc: 2.17-78.el7 Ubuntu 14.04.3 LTS git: 1.9.1 libc: 2.19-0ubuntu6 kernel: Linux 3.13.0-24-generic #47-Ubuntu SMP Fri May 2 23:30:00 UTC 2014 x86_64 x86_64 x86_64 GNU/Linux -- Daniele -- 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