There are two problems here: 1) If no argument is provided, then the command segfaults 2) The argument is not consumed, so there will be excess output Fix both of these in one go by restructuring the handler for this option. Reported-by: Daniel Hahler <genml+git-2014@xxxxxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: John Keeping <john@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> --- builtin/rev-parse.c | 7 +++++-- 1 file changed, 5 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-) diff --git a/builtin/rev-parse.c b/builtin/rev-parse.c index aaeb611..645cc4a 100644 --- a/builtin/rev-parse.c +++ b/builtin/rev-parse.c @@ -738,9 +738,12 @@ int cmd_rev_parse(int argc, const char **argv, const char *prefix) continue; } if (!strcmp(arg, "--resolve-git-dir")) { - const char *gitdir = resolve_gitdir(argv[i+1]); + const char *gitdir; + if (++i >= argc) + die("--resolve-git-dir requires an argument"); + gitdir = resolve_gitdir(argv[i]); if (!gitdir) - die("not a gitdir '%s'", argv[i+1]); + die("not a gitdir '%s'", argv[i]); puts(gitdir); continue; } -- 1.9.0.6.g037df60.dirty -- 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