Re: SIGSEGV Error Occurs When Attempting to Unbundle Without Initializing Git Repository.

Jeff King [off-list ref] writes:

  - "verify" requires a repo, which I wouldn't have expected, but I
    guess it's because we probably unbundle under the hood to walk.
    Anyway, it gets the ordering right here and checks the repo before
    opening the bundle.

In hindsight "verify" is misnamed and overrated.  Its purpose is to
check if the bundle can be unbundled into your _current_ repository
by checking if you have all the commits _required_ to unbundle the
bundle.

In fact, I doubt that "verify" looks at the pack stream part of the
file at all.

  - list-heads doesn't require a repo, and segfaults. So it really does
    need some kind of detection or default to know which hash to use.

Yes.