Have you ever wondered why segmentation fault Git occurs?

Usually, segmentation fault in Git happens due to program corruption, SD card corruption, use of software from incompatible repositories, etc.

At Bobcares, we often receive requests to solve these segfaults as part of our Server Management Services.

Today, let’s have a deep discussion on this topic and see how we fix it.

What is the Git Segmentation fault?

Still wondering on what is Git? Before getting into the topic, let’s make this clear.

Usually, version control systems allow us to track the history of a collection of files. It supports creating different versions of this collection.

And, a repository is that specific place where these versions have been stored.

Git is a popular implementation of the distributed version control systems.

In a distributed version control system, each user has a complete local copy of a repository on his individual computer.

Segmentation fault in Git

Programs that try to read or write an illegal location causes segmentation faults a.k.a segfault. Usually, these end up in a program crash.

Git also faces segmentation faults. And, these segfaults occur due to various reasons.

SD card corruption occurs mainly due to human errors and often results in major data loss.

Program corruption occurs when some program occupies the memory that is already in use by another program.

Sometimes, using software from incompatible repository also causes segfault errors in Git.

How we fix it

Recently, one of our customers approached us with a Git error. He was using Git version 2.1.4. and he tried to clone a Github repository.

But, all his attempts ended up showing the below error.

b@bobcares:~ $ cd tasks/
b@bobcares:~/tasks $ git clone https://github.com/xxx/spxxx-connect-web.git
Segmentation fault

So, our Support Engineers checked the error and found some segmentation faults. The immediate fix for the error was to reinstall Git.

Therefore, we followed the below command:

sudo apt-get install --reinstall git

This resolved the error effectively.

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Conclusion

In short, Segmentation fault Git occurs due to corrupted programs or SD cards, incompatible errors and so on. In today’s writeup, we discussed this error in detail and saw its suitable fix by our Support Engineers.