The get_revision_1() function tries to avoid entering its main loop at all when there are no commits to look at. But it's perfectly safe to call pop_commit() on an empty list (in which case it will return NULL). Switching to an early return from the loop lets us skip repeating the loop condition before we enter the do-while. That will get more important when we start pulling reflog-walk commits from a source besides the revs->commits queue, as that condition will get much more complicated. Signed-off-by: Jeff King <peff@xxxxxxxx> --- revision.c | 11 +++++------ 1 file changed, 5 insertions(+), 6 deletions(-) diff --git a/revision.c b/revision.c index 6678de04d9..4019e8cf23 100644 --- a/revision.c +++ b/revision.c @@ -3111,12 +3111,12 @@ static void track_linear(struct rev_info *revs, struct commit *commit) static struct commit *get_revision_1(struct rev_info *revs) { - if (!revs->commits) - return NULL; - - do { + while (1) { struct commit *commit = pop_commit(&revs->commits); + if (!commit) + return NULL; + if (revs->reflog_info) { save_parents(revs, commit); fake_reflog_parent(revs->reflog_info, commit); @@ -3150,8 +3150,7 @@ static struct commit *get_revision_1(struct rev_info *revs) track_linear(revs, commit); return commit; } - } while (revs->commits); - return NULL; + } } /* -- 2.13.2.1000.g8590c1af5d