[bch@ansel ~/work/xyz]$ fossil ver
This is fossil version [7954ccba68] 2010-10-16 16:24:24 UTC
[bch@ansel ~/work/xyz]$ ../fossil/fossil branch new bchtest 7cb890 --bgcolor \#ff2222
Segmentation fault: 11 (core dumped)
[bch@ansel ~/work/xyz]$ fossil info 
project-name: dev1 xyz
repository:   /home/bch/work/fossils/xyz.fsl
local-root:   /home/bch/work/xyz/
project-code: f2002b49daf7eaa8429a31a5a7bfcdaaf412e115
server-code:  de5815f84350c8ec7b68d93d16009a32c9d9604d
checkout:     7cb890f36a69a2a578b6fc61daf68c120d16124f 2010-10-26 01:03:29 UTC
parent:       b24bfc57e457e4add29fb33bab5486c7f0047d9b 2010-10-26 00:56:09 UTC
child:        c56c5daca15e2dd28ecb0e97d8e964b72b89ff50 2010-10-26 01:10:25 UTC
child:        0eff20d8719e0f6338c84bf98f0ca843ba67bc11 2010-10-26 23:36:10 UTC
tags:         trunk
comment:      adj css by-hand, per joe (user: bch)
[bch@ansel ~/work/xyz]$ gdb ../fossil/fossil
GNU gdb 6.1.1 [FreeBSD]
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welcome to change it and/or distribute copies of it under certain conditions.
Type "show copying" to see the conditions.
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This GDB was configured as "amd64-marcel-freebsd"...
(gdb) run branch new bchtest 7cb890 --bgcolor \#ff2222
Starting program: /home/bch/work/fossil/fossil branch new bchtest 7cb890 --bgcolor \#ff2222

Program received signal SIGSEGV, Segmentation fault.
0x000000000040704a in branch_new () at branch_.c:97
97            if( pParent->aFile[i].zPerm[0] ){
(gdb) bt
#0  0x000000000040704a in branch_new () at branch_.c:97
#1  0x0000000000407397 in branch_cmd () at branch_.c:198
#2  0x0000000000421633 in main (argc=6, argv=0x7fffffffe6b0) at main_.c:261
(gdb) 

bharder added on 2010-10-27 17:28:00:
I made a mistake when I tried to show fossil version in previous post. Proper version identification:

$ ./work/fossil/fossil version
This is fossil version [57347e6ee8] 2010-10-26 21:37:16 UTC
$ 

bharder added on 2010-10-28 17:57:31:
Confirmed fixed. Thx.