On Fri, Sep 20, 2024 at 05:37:40PM +0000, Ronan Pigott wrote: [snip] > The following is an abort in git: > > $ git --version > git version 2.46.1 > $ git --git-dir=notexist archive > BUG: refs.c:1933: reference backend is unknown > zsh: IOT instruction (core dumped) git --git-dir=notexist archive > The "git-archive(1)" command must accept at least one parameter as "archive.c::parse_archive_args" shows: static int parse_archive_args(...) { ... if (argc < 1) usage_with_options(archive_usage, opts); } So, it will print the usage and exit the program. I guess you omit some things for this bug report. Could you please give us more information to let us dive into this? Thanks, Jialuo