Ben Walton wrote:
The ls-files built-in was not asking the option parser to maintain
argv[0]. This led to the possibility of fprintf(stderr, "...", NULL).
On Solaris, this was causing a segfault. On glibc systems, printed
error messages didn't contain proper strings, but rather, "(null)":...
A trigger for this bug was: `git ls-files -i`
Signed-off-by: Ben Walton <redacted>
Patch looks good.
Just a thought, maybe we should change the fprintf(stderr,...) and
exit(1) call to a die() and replace the argv[0] with "ls-files" similar
to the die() on line 546. Then your diffstat becomes -1 instead of 0.