On Sat, Mar 28, 2009 at 11:19:31AM -0500, Michael Johnson [off-list ref] wrote:
The 1.6.2.1 version just segfaults, but 1.5.6.5 says:
/usr/bin/git-merge: line 438: 32335 Segmentation fault
git-merge-$strategy $common -- "$head_arg" "$@"
Merge with strategy recursive failed.
In all cases, .git/index.lock is left behind.
That's because 1.6.2.1 has git-merge in C and it calls merge-recursive
directly without a fork. Could you try it in gdb and provide a
backtrace, please?