Jeff King <peff@xxxxxxxx> writes: > I'm not sure if Frédéric is seeing another segfault in practice (when > not using --debug-unpack), but yeah, it is very easy to trigger this > segfault. It does not even have to do with sparse checkouts, etc. Here's > an even more minimal example: > > git init repo > cd repo > touch file > git add file > git commit -m added > git read-tree --debug-unpack --prefix=subtree HEAD > > I was going to bisect, but it looks like it was broken all the way back > to Junio's ba655da537 (read-tree --debug-unpack, 2009-09-14). As "git read-tree --help" does not even metnion "--debug-unpack", I have no idea what it does, or how useful the debug information it produces is. As long as the same command without --debug-unpack works OK, I'd throw this into "does it hurt? don't do it, then" bin. ;-)
