From: Jonathan Nieder <jrnieder@xxxxxxxxx> Rather than erroring out, treat an empty path as the path to the root of a tree so frontends can be simplified a little. While at it, fix a typo in an error message: the cat command is used to examine paths within trees, not branches. Cc: David Barr <david.barr@xxxxxxxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: Jonathan Nieder <jrnieder@xxxxxxxxx> --- fast-import.c | 6 +++++- 1 files changed, 5 insertions(+), 1 deletions(-) diff --git a/fast-import.c b/fast-import.c index 099f63e..f3c4123 100644 --- a/fast-import.c +++ b/fast-import.c @@ -2702,9 +2702,13 @@ static void quoted_path_sha1(unsigned char sha1[20], struct tree_entry *root, die("Invalid path: %s", line); if (*x) die("Garbage after path: %s", line); + if (uq.len == 0) { + hashcpy(sha1, root->versions[1].sha1); + return; + } tree_content_get(root, uq.buf, &leaf); if (!leaf.versions[1].mode) - die("Path %s not in branch", uq.buf); + die("Path %s not in tree", uq.buf); hashcpy(sha1, leaf.versions[1].sha1); } -- 1.7.3.1 -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe git" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html