When running 'git checkout -m' and using diff3 style conflict markers, we want all the conflict hunks (left-side, "common" or "merge base", and right-side) to have label markers letting the user know where each came from. The "common" hunk label (o.ancestor) came from old_branch_info->name, but that is NULL when HEAD is detached, which resulted in a blank label. Check for that case and provide an abbreviated commit hash instead. (Incidentally, this was the only case in the git codebase where merge_trees() was called with opt->ancestor being NULL. A subsequent commit will prevent similar problems by enforcing that merge_trees() always be called with opt->ancestor != NULL.) Signed-off-by: Elijah Newren <newren@xxxxxxxxx> --- builtin/checkout.c | 8 ++++++++ 1 file changed, 8 insertions(+) diff --git a/builtin/checkout.c b/builtin/checkout.c index 6123f732a2..d5b946dc3a 100644 --- a/builtin/checkout.c +++ b/builtin/checkout.c @@ -713,6 +713,7 @@ static int merge_working_tree(const struct checkout_opts *opts, struct tree *old_tree; struct merge_options o; struct strbuf sb = STRBUF_INIT; + struct strbuf old_commit_shortname = STRBUF_INIT; if (!opts->merge) return 1; @@ -768,6 +769,12 @@ static int merge_working_tree(const struct checkout_opts *opts, if (ret) return ret; o.ancestor = old_branch_info->name; + if (old_branch_info->name == NULL) { + strbuf_add_unique_abbrev(&old_commit_shortname, + &old_branch_info->commit->object.oid, + DEFAULT_ABBREV); + o.ancestor = old_commit_shortname.buf; + } o.branch1 = new_branch_info->name; o.branch2 = "local"; ret = merge_trees(&o, @@ -781,6 +788,7 @@ static int merge_working_tree(const struct checkout_opts *opts, opts, 0, writeout_error); strbuf_release(&o.obuf); + strbuf_release(&old_commit_shortname); if (ret) return ret; } -- 2.23.0.rc2.32.g2123e9e4e4