[Bug 1670619] Re: "git merge -s ours --no-commit FETCH_HEAD" segfaults with NULL-dereference

[Roman Fiedler]

Bug seems to be fixed in newer version of git, see chat 
http://colabti.org/irclogger/irclogger_log/git?date=2017-03-07

Current trunk reports:

"fatal: FETCH_HEAD - not something we can merge"

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Title:
  "git merge -s ours --no-commit FETCH_HEAD" segfaults with NULL-
  dereference

Status in git package in Ubuntu:
  New

Bug description:
  Following steps cause a segfault on 32/64bit Ubuntu Xenial:

  mkdir x y
  git init x
  git init y
  cd x
  git remote add y ../y
  git fetch y
  git merge -s ours --no-commit FETCH_HEAD

  $ lsb_release -rd
  Description:    Ubuntu 16.04.2 LTS
  Release:        16.04
  $ apt-cache policy git
  git:
    Installed: 1:2.7.4-0ubuntu1
    Candidate: 1:2.7.4-0ubuntu1
    Version table:
   *** 1:2.7.4-0ubuntu1 500
          500 http://archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu xenial/main amd64 Packages
          100 /var/lib/dpkg/status

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