Todd Zullinger <tmz@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > I'm running the tests with and without your patch as well. > So far I've run t9128 300 times with the patch and no > failures. Without it, it's failed 3 times in only a few > dozen runs. That's promising. Thanks for confirming it works on other systems. Pull request and patch below: The following changes since commit 5be1f00a9a701532232f57958efab4be8c959a29: First batch after 2.16 (2018-01-23 13:21:10 -0800) are available in the Git repository at: git://bogomips.org/git-svn.git svn-branch-segfault for you to fetch changes up to 2784b8d68faca823489949cbc69ead2f296cfc07: git-svn: control destruction order to avoid segfault (2018-01-29 23:12:00 +0000) ---------------------------------------------------------------- Eric Wong (1): git-svn: control destruction order to avoid segfault git-svn.perl | 5 +++++ 1 file changed, 5 insertions(+) ---------8<--------- Subject: [PATCH] git-svn: control destruction order to avoid segfault It seems necessary to control destruction ordering to avoid a segfault with SVN 1.9.5 when using "git svn branch". I've also reported the problem against libsvn-perl to Debian [Bug #888791], but releasing the SVN::Client instance can be beneficial anyways to save memory. ref: https://bugs.debian.org/888791 Tested-by: Todd Zullinger <tmz@xxxxxxxxx> Reported-by: brian m. carlson <sandals@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: Eric Wong <e@xxxxxxxxx> --- git-svn.perl | 5 +++++ 1 file changed, 5 insertions(+) diff --git a/git-svn.perl b/git-svn.perl index 76a75d0b3d..a6b6c3e40c 100755 --- a/git-svn.perl +++ b/git-svn.perl @@ -1200,6 +1200,11 @@ sub cmd_branch { $ctx->copy($src, $rev, $dst) unless $_dry_run; + # Release resources held by ctx before creating another SVN::Ra + # so destruction is orderly. This seems necessary with SVN 1.9.5 + # to avoid segfaults. + $ctx = undef; + $gs->fetch_all; } -- EW