On Tue, 9 May 2006, Randal L. Schwartz wrote:

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> >>>>> "Junio" == Junio C Hamano <junkio@cox.net> writes:
> 
> Junio> This week's "What's in" is a day early, since I do not expect to
> Junio> be able to do much gitting for the rest of the week.
> 
> I just got this with the latest, on the git archive, using git-repack -a:
> 
> Generating pack...
> Done counting 19151 objects.
> Deltifying 19151 objects.
> Segmentation fault (core dumped)
> 
> This is on OpenBSD.  Is there a secret sabotage afoot?  This is repeatable.
> Is there anything I can try differently?

Can you see what the traceback is with gdb?

I'd suspect the deltifier changes, the rabin hash in particular. The core 
file traceback would probably point right at the culprit if so.

I don't see the problem myself, but if it's an access just past the end of 
an array or something, it would depend on exactly what the delta pattern 
is (which, without the "-f" flag, in turn depends on what your previous 
packs looked like) and also on the allocation strategy (which migth 
explain why it shows on OpenBSD but Linux people hadn't seen it).

			Linus
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