When performing copy detection, git-blame tries to read gitlinks as blobs, which causes it to die. This patch adds a check to skip them. Signed-off-by: Alexander Gavrilov <angavrilov@xxxxxxxxx> --- I don't know if this is enough for all cases, but it fixes mine. -- Alexander $ git blame --incremental -C -C ImpactMessages.cpp 767f36d1ce2f361e9148bb23155e6aafad034f4b 6 6 10 ... 767f36d1ce2f361e9148bb23155e6aafad034f4b 49 49 7 filename BackEnd/Impact/ImpactMessages.cpp 767f36d1ce2f361e9148bb23155e6aafad034f4b 57 57 1 filename BackEnd/Impact/ImpactMessages.cpp 767f36d1ce2f361e9148bb23155e6aafad034f4b 59 59 14 filename BackEnd/Impact/ImpactMessages.cpp fatal: Cannot read blob 27152bb4f8b10d4ce5f9fa584c14511dceba3c06 for path BackEnd/Boost builtin-blame.c | 2 ++ 1 files changed, 2 insertions(+), 0 deletions(-) diff --git a/builtin-blame.c b/builtin-blame.c index 9bc901c..101c416 100644 --- a/builtin-blame.c +++ b/builtin-blame.c @@ -1136,6 +1136,8 @@ static int find_copy_in_parent(struct scoreboard *sb, if (!DIFF_FILE_VALID(p->one)) continue; /* does not exist in parent */ + if (S_ISGITLINK(p->one->mode)) + continue; /* ignore git links */ if (porigin && !strcmp(p->one->path, porigin->path)) /* find_move already dealt with this path */ continue; -- 1.6.0.20.g6148bc -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe git" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html