On do, 2016-06-16 at 17:02 +1200, Chris Packham wrote: > On Thu, Jun 16, 2016 at 4:59 PM, Chris Packham <judge.packham@gmail.c > om> wrote: > > > > Hi All, > > > > I have the git-sh-prompt configured in my .bashrc today I visited > > an > > old worktree that I haven't really touched in a few years (sorry > > can't > > remember the git version I was using back then). I received the > > following output when changing to the directory > > > > git: pathspec.c:317: prefix_pathspec: Assertion `item- > > >nowildcard_len > > <= item->len && item->prefix <= item->len' failed. > > > > I assume it's one of the git invocations in git-sh-prompt that's > > hitting the assertion. Any thoughts on what might be triggering it? > > Any debug I can gather? > A bit more info. The directory in question is a uninitialised > submodule. It doesn't trigger in the root of the parent project. That very much smells like a class of bugs we've seen before, with git getting confused around submodules. See also for example https://www.mail-archive.com/git@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx/msg68447.html I don't think an accepted fix exists yet. D. -- 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