Michael Mueller noted that a feature I recently added failed to check the return of lookup_commit to ensure that it was not NULL. I don't think a NULL can actually happen in the this particular use case, but regardless it seems a good idea to check. Signed-off-by: Neil Horman <nhorman@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> --- sequencer.c | 11 ++++++++++- 1 files changed, 10 insertions(+), 1 deletions(-) diff --git a/sequencer.c b/sequencer.c index f83cdfd..ded0b76 100644 --- a/sequencer.c +++ b/sequencer.c @@ -261,7 +261,16 @@ static int is_index_unchanged(void) return error(_("Could not resolve HEAD commit\n")); head_commit = lookup_commit(head_sha1); - if (!head_commit || parse_commit(head_commit)) + + /* + * If head_commit is NULL, just return, as check_commit, + * called from lookup_commit, would have indicated that + * head_commit is not a commit object already. + */ + if (!head_commit) + return -1; + + if (parse_commit(head_commit)) return error(_("could not parse commit %s\n"), sha1_to_hex(head_commit->object.sha1)); -- 1.7.7.6 -- 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