If the SHA-1 we are requesting the object for does not exist in the object database we get a NULL back. Accessing the type from that is not likely to succeed on any system. Signed-off-by: Shawn O. Pearce <spearce@xxxxxxxxxxx> --- refs.c | 2 +- 1 files changed, 1 insertions(+), 1 deletions(-) diff --git a/refs.c b/refs.c index 67d2a50..fb33da1 100644 --- a/refs.c +++ b/refs.c @@ -506,7 +506,7 @@ int peel_ref(const char *ref, unsigned char *sha1) /* fallback - callers should not call this for unpacked refs */ o = parse_object(base); - if (o->type == OBJ_TAG) { + if (o && o->type == OBJ_TAG) { o = deref_tag(o, ref, 0); if (o) { hashcpy(sha1, o->sha1); -- 1.5.4.3.295.g6b554 - 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