Hi Rémi,

On Wed, 5 Apr 2017, Rémi Galan Alfonso wrote:

> At $DAYWORK, the code is versionned under SVN. Since I haven't used SVN
> before and try to have a clean and bisectable history, I installed git
> with the intent to manage my code locally before pushing to SVN when I'm
> satisfied (I haven't tries git-svn because I have never used it and
> would like to avoid screwing up the SVN repo by some mistake).
> 
> So first to setup the local repo, I wanted to add all of the code files.
> So I first ran at the root of the repo:
>   $ git add ./**.cpp
> Which is quite a big amount of files (partly because of external
> dependencies which would have been smart to exclude, but it's done).
>   $ find -type f -name "**.cpp" | wc -l
>   8676
> This command worked (return status is 0 and no error message).
> 
> However following `git add **.hpp` and `git status` segfault with no
> additional message:
>   $ git status
>   Segmentation fault

I think this is the problem identified in
https://github.com/git-for-windows/git/issues/1111.

To verify, you could try the snapshot (with the proposed fix) hosted here:
http://wingit.blob.core.windows.net/files/index.html

Ciao,
Johannes