On Fri, Sep 5, 2008 at 4:47 PM, Junio C Hamano <gitster@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > "Eric Raible" <raible@xxxxxxxxx> writes: > >> If 'empty' has any commits then the merge happens as expected. > > I think it is a bug in the git-merge rewritten in C, in "Already > uptodate!" codepath. And the ""Already uptodate!" codepath isn't even triggered when we're up-to-date but 'empty' has at even one actual commit. In that case we get a friendly "Already up-to-date" and no fatal error. -- 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