Johannes Berg <johannes@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> writes: > On Mon, 2021-08-23 at 15:44 -0700, Junio C Hamano wrote: >> Johannes Berg <johannes@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> writes: >> >> > If using --object-dir to point into a repo while the current >> > working dir is outside, such as >> > >> > git init /repo >> > git -C /repo ... # add some objects >> > cd /non-repo >> > git multi-pack-index --object-dir /repo/.git/objects/ write >> > >> > the binary will segfault trying to access the object-dir via >> > the repo it found, but that's not fully initialized. Fix it >> >> OK, so write_midx_internal() was given an object_dir to work in, >> made various changes to that directory, but at the very end of the >> sequence, instead of clearing the revindex in the object_dir we have >> been working in, cleared the odb associated with the repository. > > I'm not sure I'd claim "cleared the odb" but it's also not entirely > clear to me what you mean by that. "cleared the revindex in the wrong odb" is what I meant to say.
