Re: fatal error when diffing changed symlinks

Christophe Macabiau [off-list ref] writes:

with the commands below, you will get :

quoted

fatal: bad object 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000
show 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000: command returned error: 128

I am using version 2.5.5 fedora 23

cd /tmp
mkdir a
cd a
git init
touch b
ln -s b c
git add .
git commit -m 'first'
touch d
rm c
ln -s d c
git difftool --dir-diff

A slightly worse is that the upcoming Git will ship with a rewritten
"difftool" that makes the above sequence segfault.  As either way is
bad, I do not particularly think the rewritten one needs to be
reverted (it would give "fatal: bad object" then, and would not fix
your problem), but it needs to be looked at.

Thanks for a report.