On Fri, Sep 20, 2024 at 05:37:40PM +0000, Ronan Pigott wrote:

[snip]

The following is an abort in git:

  $ git --version
  git version 2.46.1
  $ git --git-dir=notexist archive  
  BUG: refs.c:1933: reference backend is unknown
  zsh: IOT instruction (core dumped)  git --git-dir=notexist archive

The "git-archive(1)" command must accept at least one parameter as
"archive.c::parse_archive_args" shows:

    static int parse_archive_args(...)
    {
        ...
        if (argc < 1)
            usage_with_options(archive_usage, opts);
    }

So, it will print the usage and exit the program. I guess you omit some
things for this bug report. Could you please give us more information to
let us dive into this?

Thanks,
Jialuo