On Mon, May 20, 2019 at 10:35:53AM +0200, Alejandro Sanchez wrote: > alex@polaris:~/slurm/source$ git add -u > alex@polaris:~/slurm/source$ git am -i --continue > Applying: Handle duplicate archive file names. > error: object 861d3c6f689a3ca5eb5fb5c409d46de0ad5555e1 is a commit, not a tree > BUG: diff-lib.c:526: run_diff_index must be passed exactly one tree > Aborted (core dumped) Hmm. So I think the interesting error is probably that first line: some code expects to look up a tree but sees a commit, and then as a result it probably feeds too few items to run_diff_index(), triggering the assertion failure. Just grepping around, this looks quite suspicious: $ git grep -hW get_oid_tree builtin/am.c static void write_index_patch(const struct am_state *state) ... if (!get_oid_tree("HEAD", &head)) tree = lookup_tree(the_repository, &head); else tree = lookup_tree(the_repository, the_repository->hash_algo->empty_tree); Using get_oid_tree() does not actually return a tree; it just prioritizes trees when disambiguating names (which is pointless here, since we're not feeding an ambiguous oid). HEAD will always be a commit, and then lookup_tree() similarly does not peel that down to an actual tree. And this whole function is called only in interactive-mode, so it's possible that it's simply not used much and nobody noticed. I haven't tried to reproduce yet. Is the repository (and patch) that you used to demonstrate this publicly available? Or alternatively, is it possible to show a backtrace from the coredump? If my blind guess is right, then something like this probably fixes it: diff --git a/builtin/am.c b/builtin/am.c index bdd1bbc35d..93305560c1 100644 --- a/builtin/am.c +++ b/builtin/am.c @@ -1339,9 +1339,17 @@ static void write_index_patch(const struct am_state *state) struct rev_info rev_info; FILE *fp; - if (!get_oid_tree("HEAD", &head)) - tree = lookup_tree(the_repository, &head); - else + if (!get_oid("HEAD", &head)) { + struct object *obj; + struct commit *commit; + + obj = parse_object_or_die(&head, NULL); + commit = object_as_type(the_repository, obj, OBJ_COMMIT, 0); + if (!commit) + die("unable to parse HEAD as a commit"); + + tree = get_commit_tree(commit); + } else tree = lookup_tree(the_repository, the_repository->hash_algo->empty_tree); -Peff