On Tue, Sep 05, 2017 at 02:39:05PM -0700, Linus Torvalds wrote:
> I just got this with
>
> gitk --bisect
>
> while doing some bisection on my current kernel.
>
> It happens with "git rev-parse --bisect" too, but interestingly, "git
> log --bisect" works fine.
>
> I have not tried to figure out anything further, except that it was
> introduced by commit b9c8e7f2f ("prefix_ref_iterator: don't trim too
> much") and it happens with
>
> iter->iter0->refname = "refs/bisect/bad"
> iter->trim = 15
>
> (where 15 is also the same as the length of that refname).
>
> Not having time to chase this down any more, since I'm busy with the
> merge window (and that annoying bisect)
What version of git are you running? This should be fixed by 03df567fbf
(for_each_bisect_ref(): don't trim refnames, 2017-06-18) which is in
v2.14.
More discussion at
https://public-inbox.org/git/cover.1497792827.git.mhag...@alum.mit.edu/
-Peff
