[[!comment format=mdwn
 username="http://joeyh.name/"
 ip="209.250.56.2"
 subject="comment 5"
 date="2014-07-16T18:21:24Z"
 content="""
A full log in an empty repo of the crash: 

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[2014-07-16 14:00:53 Atlantic Standard Time] read: git [\"--git-dir=C:\\WINDOWS\\TT\\.git\",\"--work-tree=C:\\WINDOWS\\TT\",\"-c\",\"core.bare=false\",\"show-ref\",\"git-annex\"]
[2014-07-16 14:00:54 Atlantic Standard Time] read: git [\"--git-dir=C:\\WINDOWS\\TT\\.git\",\"--work-tree=C:\\WINDOWS\\TT\",\"-c\",\"core.bare=false\",\"show-ref\",\"--hash\",\"refs/heads/git-annex\"]
[2014-07-16 14:00:54 Atlantic Standard Time] read: git [\"--git-dir=C:\\WINDOWS\\TT\\.git\",\"--work-tree=C:\\WINDOWS\\TT\",\"-c\",\"core.bare=false\",\"log\",\"refs/heads/git-annex..9c07d1385e80dbc6044814357e9097fd231b8c99\",\"-n1\",\"--pretty=%H\"]
[2014-07-16 14:00:54 Atlantic Standard Time] chat: git [\"--git-dir=C:\\WINDOWS\\TT\\.git\",\"--work-tree=C:\\WINDOWS\\TT\",\"-c\",\"core.bare=false\",\"cat-file\",\"--batch\"]
[2014-07-16 14:00:54 Atlantic Standard Time] logging to C:\WINDOWS\TT\.git\annex\daemon.log
[2014-07-16 14:00:54 Atlantic Standard Time] main: starting assistant version 5.20140714-gf892329
[2014-07-16 14:00:54 Atlantic Standard Time] read: git [\"--git-dir=C:\\WINDOWS\\TT\\.git\",\"--work-tree=C:\\WINDOWS\\TT\",\"-c\",\"core.bare=false\",\"show-ref\",\"git-annex\"]
[2014-07-16 14:00:54 Atlantic Standard Time] read: git [\"--git-dir=C:\\WINDOWS\\TT\\.git\",\"--work-tree=C:\\WINDOWS\\TT\",\"-c\",\"core.bare=false\",\"show-ref\",\"--hash\",\"refs/heads/git-annex\"]
[2014-07-16 14:00:54 Atlantic Standard Time] read: git [\"--git-dir=C:\\WINDOWS\\TT\\.git\",\"--work-tree=C:\\WINDOWS\\TT\",\"-c\",\"core.bare=false\",\"log\",\"refs/heads/git-annex..9c07d1385e80dbc6044814357e9097fd231b8c99\",\"-n1\",\"--pretty=%H\"]
[2014-07-16 14:00:54 Atlantic Standard Time] chat: git [\"--git-dir=C:\\WINDOWS\\TT\\.git\",\"--work-tree=C:\\WINDOWS\\TT\",\"-c\",\"core.bare=false\",\"cat-file\",\"--batch\"]
[2014-07-16 14:00:54 Atlantic Standard Time] read: git [\"--git-dir=C:\\WINDOWS\\TT\\.git\",\"--work-tree=C:\\WINDOWS\\TT\",\"-c\",\"core.bare=false\",\"ls-files\",\"--stage\",\"-z\",\"--\",\"C:\\WINDOWS\\TT\"]
[2014-07-16 14:00:54 Atlantic Standard Time] Cronner: You should enable consistency checking to protect your data. 
[2014-07-16 14:00:54 Atlantic Standard Time] SanityCheckerStartup: no index file; restaging
[2014-07-16 14:00:54 Atlantic Standard Time] read: git [\"--git-dir=C:\\WINDOWS\\TT\\.git\",\"--work-tree=C:\\WINDOWS\\TT\",\"-c\",\"core.bare=false\",\"ls-files\",\"--stage\",\"-z\",\"--\",\"C:\\WINDOWS\\TT\"]
[2014-07-16 14:00:54 Atlantic Standard Time] chat: git-annex [\"remotedaemon\"]
[2014-07-16 14:00:54 Atlantic Standard Time] read: git [\"--git-dir=C:\\WINDOWS\\TT\\.git\",\"--work-tree=C:\\WINDOWS\\TT\",\"-c\",\"core.bare=false\",\"ls-tree\",\"--full-tree\",\"-z\",\"--\",\"refs/heads/git-annex\",\"uuid.log\",\"remote.log\",\"trust.log\",\"group.log\",\"numcopies.log\",\"schedule.log\",\"preferred-content.log\",\"required-content.log\",\"group-preferred-content.log\"]
[2014-07-16 14:00:54 Atlantic Standard Time] Merger: watching C:\WINDOWS\TT\.git\refs
[2014-07-16 14:00:54 Atlantic Standard Time] TransferWatcher: watching for transfers
(scanning...) [2014-07-16 14:00:54 Atlantic Standard Time] Watcher: Performing startup scan
[2014-07-16 14:00:54 Atlantic Standard Time] read: git [\"--git-dir=C:\\WINDOWS\\TT\\.git\",\"--work-tree=C:\\WINDOWS\\TT\",\"-c\",\"core.bare=false\",\"ls-files\",\"--deleted\",\"-z\",\"--\",\"C:\\WINDOWS\\TT\"]
(started...) [2014-07-16 14:00:54 Atlantic Standard Time] Watcher: watching .


git-annex: <stdin>: hGetLine: invalid argument (Bad file descriptor)
failed
git-annex: assistant: 1 failed
</pre>

The two blank lines just before the crash seem to be significant somehow; they are not output at the beginning, so must occur just before it crashes.

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