Latest Git kills command prompt (Windows) when using "git submodule update --init --recursive". Previous version does not

[kkennett]

• [X ] I was not able to find an open or closed issue matching what I'm seeing

Setup

• Which version of Git for Windows are you using? Is it 32-bit or 64-bit?

$ git --version --build-options

git version 2.14.2.windows.1
built from commit: 788debdfb6b794425a3b949dd1a0eb2425a72e96
sizeof-long: 4
machine: x86_64

• Which version of Windows are you running? Vista, 7, 8, 10? Is it 32-bit or 64-bit?

$ cmd.exe /c ver

Microsoft Windows [Version 10.0.15063]

• What options did you set as part of the installation? Or did you choose the
  defaults?

# One of the following:
> type "C:\Program Files\Git\etc\install-options.txt"
> type "C:\Program Files (x86)\Git\etc\install-options.txt"
> type "%USERPROFILE%\AppData\Local\Programs\Git\etc\install-options.txt"
$ cat /etc/install-options.txt

Path Option: Cmd
SSH Option: OpenSSH
CURL Option: OpenSSL
CRLF Option: CRLFAlways
Bash Terminal Option: ConHost
Performance Tweaks FSCache: Enabled
Use Credential Manager: Enabled
Enable Symlinks: Disabled

• Any other interesting things about your environment that might be related
  to the issue you're seeing?

No. Install 2.14.1.windows.1 and things work fine. Install 2.14.2.windows.1 and problem presents.

Details

• Which terminal/shell are you running Git from? e.g Bash/CMD/PowerShell/other

Cmd

• What commands did you run to trigger this issue? If you can provide a
  Minimal, Complete, and Verifiable example
  this will help us understand the issue.

git clone <url> <local name>
git submodule update --init --recursive

• What did you expect to occur after running these commands?

submodules to update

• What actually happened instead?

submodules start to update, but then command window just disappears (crashed).

• If the problem was occurring with a specific repository, can you provide the
  URL to that repository to help us with testing?

No. Internal private repository.

[dscho]

No. Internal private repository.

Maybe you can initialize a minimal public repository to make this much easier to reproduce, and to verify in the process that this is not specific to your repository.

[patrick984]

I have observed the same issue when using the git-subrepo module. Any of the git subrepo ... commands cause the terminal window to disappear immediately (however the bash.exe process stays alive forever). Reverting to 2.14.1.windows.1 fixes the problem.

To reproduce first install git subrepo (https://github.com/ingydotnet/git-subrepo) then using git bash:

mkdir test-repo
cd test-repo
git init
mkdir test-subrepo
touch test-subrepo/a.txt
git add test-subrepo/a.txt
git commit -m initial
git subrepo init test-subrepo

The command window will then disappear if using 2.14.2.

[csmager]

This sounds like the same thing I get with git lfs when using 2.14.2. I logged at git-lfs: git-lfs/git-lfs#263.

When the git lfs hooks are installed and I'm in a repo that uses LFS, both PowerShell and CMD will quit after e.g. git push. Rolling back to 2.14.1 resolves the problem.

[kkennett]

i am not able to do much right now as i am away from my system. patrick984 has a repo - can you try that? Can we roll back to the previous version until this problem is resolved?

[dscho]

I logged at git-lfs: git-lfs/git-lfs#263.

@csmager you probably meant git-lfs/git-lfs#2631 instead.

[dscho]

After 3h of bug hunting, I found not only the problem, but also that it was already fixed in Cygwin: cygwin/cygwin@21a39b2 (I simply did not see it before today and consequently failed to adjust Git for Windows accordingly).

[dscho]

I think this is fixed by git-for-windows/MSYS2-packages@e9d0a2b.

[dscho]

If all goes well, a new snapshot will appear at https://wingit.blob.core.windows.net/files/index.html within the hour. When it does, please test?

[OtherShadeOfBlue]

@dscho That snapshot fixes it for me.
I have a several scripts that broke for the same reason and work again using your snapshot.

[dscho]

@OtherShadeOfBlue thanks for the feedback!