From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.4.0 (2014-02-07) on dcvr.yhbt.net X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-ASN: AS31976 209.132.180.0/23 X-Spam-Status: No, score=-3.3 required=3.0 tests=AWL,BAYES_00, FREEMAIL_FORGED_FROMDOMAIN,FREEMAIL_FROM,HEADER_FROM_DIFFERENT_DOMAINS, RCVD_IN_DNSWL_HI,RP_MATCHES_RCVD shortcircuit=no autolearn=ham autolearn_force=no version=3.4.0 Received: from vger.kernel.org (vger.kernel.org [209.132.180.67]) by dcvr.yhbt.net (Postfix) with ESMTP id ACF231F5FB for ; Thu, 2 Mar 2017 14:36:45 +0000 (UTC) Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1753707AbdCBOe5 (ORCPT ); Thu, 2 Mar 2017 09:34:57 -0500 Received: from mout.gmx.net ([212.227.15.15]:57172 "EHLO mout.gmx.net" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1751531AbdCBOeg (ORCPT ); Thu, 2 Mar 2017 09:34:36 -0500 Received: from virtualbox ([37.201.192.48]) by mail.gmx.com (mrgmx003 [212.227.17.190]) with ESMTPSA (Nemesis) id 0LskfZ-1cHHh90jc1-012J3i; Thu, 02 Mar 2017 15:26:14 +0100 Date: Thu, 2 Mar 2017 15:26:13 +0100 (CET) From: Johannes Schindelin X-X-Sender: virtualbox@virtualbox To: Mark Phillips cc: "git@vger.kernel.org" Subject: Re: BUG Report: v12.0.0 "git difftool -d" fails with "fatal: cannot create directory at '': No such file or directory" In-Reply-To: Message-ID: References: User-Agent: Alpine 2.20 (DEB 67 2015-01-07) MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII X-Provags-ID: V03:K0:yQ/HrsvnaV3Sf3fBp10uhQQNOm0B1yPsEc5VKD80tBNMvOAq3lE j0a2EnrVDrKBIDdO36N2GA1vbTWi/F9myH+Te3JK3P1Ru8igNtww254cyWp+cidqxErqtv2 hLSq7OVCuBTtauxMlcHSkj+mFS8G2RTsGO7HzJ0hxegg1sKsTb1VqQY4n7xjKo8pAnxeUd8 zw9fjnTiYmHkJipYvZiDA== X-UI-Out-Filterresults: notjunk:1;V01:K0:SqbP7kNWxpw=:kKMNOkbRL/qZy+1U+mDGV+ hkDECACOrfpmYMRE5ta0Nb4Zg4HgvDLsRTTEqN0np5RmWmVO+eB0bGLNFHv3gHRTcBoV6fxXb dstsWwCtxy9xVSmAylZbB+Dp5UJsn4uFrlKKWefkVDTJgNECC63o8EbIyHNhNZB0YytiEH1JM eW5PQJWXPZUvvR9SXScUFdVRXoSDJzvRbmVPxVQ3EE4Dcd9fzCUcF3d4V/fJehjzCb+jB+W/O 0qvjorRanUJXUnspv6a1/688uYdbTB+Gc7gmb24ukTDa7aiZb3gIk52fpx4tklsho/qsabuMQ gPclfi0/wrd+RbOBWMVSr9/cphacUwDzV482llXDwIscWGAl1GRdCJbp+3UixYbgStOx3SQMM TrV6wCIKIFbX/FX0WG4Z0WyzMY85eMiA89RgEN0LiR1b5IDHrjrfQWKHVG6awnG8BieyXzKUv 3sY15KWlvPZGpNJdwbA71vDsK7FYgUV6bP2Z+WMCBbGp0ILE/Y9lXNqaYsh+OGaOvV/n4OT2e xsB6mH0XBaIqQS19KxswglkEnnJV7yqxYWMJzXD3LpfuRk+EIIjX76QwmxOYSFoxR81d1OT+U eOHUbcl03lJZRkZaV7qiUGZ8isipWsq3NiH3QdbcAtY8/BzBr4HvO7B2sOSEW7FtGXzmove1B DE0i3jQhKOZs5r5fuIBjnQKn7IYg27ZUD15hQaBA7hFDSWRhPqOX/XFMJmdMuTlP3yLVoGbDI X6Ucq3SO+oqB/IsLGqx0cry9rwNvKcXBMU/EF2A6kr29LZja9qwsqxdg31hmEowQMbw6CT38L CoU6fM6j6+Aal+hnw3UPkQZh2IZEQ== Sender: git-owner@vger.kernel.org Precedence: bulk List-ID: X-Mailing-List: git@vger.kernel.org Hi Mark, On Thu, 2 Mar 2017, Mark Phillips wrote: > I am building git from source using gcc 4.8.5 on 64 bit linux. > > I am sorry the log info is not very helpful, please tell me how to get > more information about what is going wrong and I will collect the info > for you! Well, you could provide a Minimal, Complete and Verifiable Example (http://stackoverflow.com/help/mcve): most likely, the error depends on particular features of your current HEAD, or environment variables. Because i do *not* get that error if I run `git difftool -d HEAD~`. So it is not so much about collecting info as about distilling your use case into an example that allows other developers to reproduce the problem, and subsequently fix it. Ciao, Johannes