When we call init_checkout_metadata in reset_tree, we want to pass the object ID of the commit in question so that it can be passed to filters, or if there is no commit, the tree. We anticipated this latter case, which can occur elsewhere in the checkout code, but it cannot occur here. The only case in which we do not have a commit object is when invoking git switch with --orphan. Moreover, we can only hit this code path without a commit object additionally with either --force or --discard-changes. In such a case, there is no point initializing the checkout metadata with a commit or tree because (a) there is no commit, only the empty tree, and (b) we will never use the data, since no files will be smudged when checking out a branch with no files. Pass the all-zeros object ID in this case, since we just need some value which is a valid pointer. Signed-off-by: brian m. carlson <sandals@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> --- builtin/checkout.c | 4 +--- 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 3 deletions(-) diff --git a/builtin/checkout.c b/builtin/checkout.c index e9d111bb83..62b5e371bc 100644 --- a/builtin/checkout.c +++ b/builtin/checkout.c @@ -621,9 +621,7 @@ static int reset_tree(struct tree *tree, const struct checkout_opts *o, opts.src_index = &the_index; opts.dst_index = &the_index; init_checkout_metadata(&opts.meta, info->refname, - info->commit ? &info->commit->object.oid : - is_null_oid(&info->oid) ? &tree->object.oid : - &info->oid, + info->commit ? &info->commit->object.oid : &null_oid, NULL); parse_tree(tree); init_tree_desc(&tree_desc, tree->buffer, tree->size);
