A but that was recently introduced into the 6.x development branch of ncurses causes free()d data to be reused by mistake, leading to a crash. You can verify this by setting TERM to, say, `msys` and then running `bash.exe --login -i`. This fixes https://github.com/git-for-windows/git/issues/222 Signed-off-by: Johannes Schindelin <johannes.schindelin@gmx.de>