On Wed, Oct 26, 2016 at 07:26:20PM +0700, Duy Nguyen wrote: > > I'm not sure this is really any convenience over dumping a corefile > > and using gdb to pull out the > > symbols after the fact. > > So are we back to forcing core files? I'm ok with that! The only > inconvenience I see is pointing out where the core file is, which > should be where `pwd` originally is. On linux we can even peek into > /proc/sys/kernel/core_pattern if we want to be precise. ulimit can get > in the way, but I don't if the default out there is enable or disable > core dumping. Once we got OS info and git version, our chances of > cracking the core files should be reasonably high.
TBH, most of the time I expect the solution to be walking the person through: git clone git://kernel.org/pub/scm/git/git.git cd git make gdb --args ./git whatever break die run bt which would cover most cases (reproducible breakage, and not in a sub-program). It's relatively rare that even I resort to corefiles. -Peff
