Junio C Hamano <gitster@xxxxxxxxx> writes: > This made my "git push" to k.org and other places over ssh segfault > when their tip and what I am attempting to push are identical. I > haven't spent more time than just to bisect the history down to > identify this commit as the possible culprit. (gdb) bt #0 0x000055555579a785 in pushremote_for_branch (branch=0x0, explicit=0x7fffffffcf84) at remote.c:564 #1 0x000055555579a5c2 in remotes_remote_get_1 (remote_state=0x5555559782a0, name=0x0, get_default=0x55555579a742 <pushremote_for_branch>) at remote.c:518 #2 0x000055555579a6d0 in remotes_pushremote_get (remote_state=0x5555559782a0, name=0x0) at remote.c:542 #3 0x000055555579a740 in repo_pushremote_get (repo=0x555555974b80 <the_repo>, name=0x0) at remote.c:554 #4 0x000055555560aa9d in pushremote_get (name=0x0) at ./remote.h:135 #5 0x000055555560c5ce in cmd_push (argc=0, argv=0x7fffffffdc70, prefix=0x0) at builtin/push.c:611 #6 0x000055555557396a in run_builtin (p=0x555555941f78 <commands+2136>, argc=3, argv=0x7fffffffdc70) at git.c:461 #7 0x0000555555573d79 in handle_builtin (argc=3, argv=0x7fffffffdc70) at git.c:713 #8 0x0000555555573fe6 in run_argv (argcp=0x7fffffffdafc, argv=0x7fffffffdaf0) at git.c:780 #9 0x000055555557448f in cmd_main (argc=3, argv=0x7fffffffdc70) at git.c:911 #10 0x000055555565b2ae in main (argc=6, argv=0x7fffffffdc58) at common-main.c:52 The direct culprit is this part: const char *pushremote_for_branch(struct branch *branch, int *explicit) { if (branch && branch->pushremote_name) { if (explicit) *explicit = 1; return branch->pushremote_name; } if (branch->remote_state->pushremote_name) { where the second if() statement used to check "pushremote_name", but now unconditionally dereferences "branch". The caller is remote_get_1(); this funciton was called with "current_branch", which can be NULL until you have a repository and you've called read_config(), but otherwise shouldn't be. I think somebody is not setting up the remote_state correctly? When the user wants to just use the repository-wide pushremote, not having the current_branch would not matter, but if the pushremote for the current branch is different from the repository-wide one, the code would silently push to a wrong remote. In any case, any public facing entry point, like pushremote_get() that is directly called from cmd_push() with just a name, should auto vivify an instance of struct remote_state and populate its members as needed, I think, and in this particular case, I suspect that it forgets to initialize the current_branch and other members by calling read_config(), just like other entry points like repo_remote_get() do.