Re: bug report: mutual recursion in the git-subtree shell script

[Johannes Schindelin <Johannes.Schindelin@gmx.de>]

Hi,

On Sun, 14 Mar 2021, Arun Sharma wrote:

> On Sat, Mar 13, 2021 at 9:03 AM brian m. carlson
> <sandals@crustytoothpaste.net> wrote:
> >
> > I don't use git-subtree, but there's some additional information which
> > would probably be helpful here to someone who does.  What OS are you
> > using, what version of Git, and what shell is the shell you have as
> > /bin/sh (or, if you've compiled using a custom shell, the shell you're
> > using for that)?
>
> Thanks for the hint. I was using ubuntu 20.04.
>
> $ git --version
> git version 2.25.1
>
> $ bash --version
> GNU bash, version 5.0.16(1)-release (x86_64-pc-linux-gnu)
>
> To repro, you can try to split a week old version of:
>
> https://github.com/postgres/postgres (subtree: src/interfaces/libpq)
>
> It could take several minutes because of the size of the repo.
>
> And then try to pull the latest version and push the merged result
> into the smaller subproject.

Without having had the time to read the bug report in detail (let alone
the time to try to reproduce), I nevertheless got reminded of this PR:
https://github.com/gitgitgadget/git/pull/493

The most recent iteration was sent here:
https://lore.kernel.org/git/pull.493.v2.git.1602021913.gitgitgadget@gmail.com/

This patch series _might_ address the issue (IIRC it talked about removing
a deep recursion). Arun, maybe you want to give it a swirl?

Ciao,
Johannes