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| author |  Erik Faye-Lund <kusmabite@gmail.com> | 2012-05-08 19:22:33 +0200 |
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| committer |  Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com> | 2012-05-08 10:36:55 -0700 |
| commit | 8338f771fe9720766dfcb25b6dca58832e24a0fd (patch) | |
| tree | 6bb1594c45fffde796364ee577ff34cf548fee17 /Documentation/gitk.txt | |
| parent | git checkout -b: allow switching out of an unborn branch (diff) | |
| download | tgif-8338f771fe9720766dfcb25b6dca58832e24a0fd.tar.xz | |
checkout: do not corrupt HEAD on empty repo
In abe1998 ("git checkout -b: allow switching out of an unborn
branch"), a code-path overly-optimisticly assumed that a
branch-name was specified. This is not always the case, and as
a result a NULL-pointer was attempted printed to .git/HEAD.
This could lead to at least two different failure modes:
1) vsnprintf formated the NULL-string as something useful (e.g
"(null)")
2) vsnprintf crashed
Neither were very convenient for formatting a new HEAD-reference.
To fix this, reintroduce some strictness so we only take this
new codepath if a banch-name was specified.
Signed-off-by: Erik Faye-Lund <kusmabite@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
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