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-rw-r--r--builtin-checkout.c2
-rwxr-xr-xt/t2011-checkout-invalid-head.sh4
2 files changed, 5 insertions, 1 deletions
diff --git a/builtin-checkout.c b/builtin-checkout.c
index c107fd643a..544aa5add1 100644
--- a/builtin-checkout.c
+++ b/builtin-checkout.c
@@ -515,8 +515,8 @@ int cmd_checkout(int argc, const char **argv, const char *prefix)
argv++;
argc--;
+ new.name = arg;
if ((new.commit = lookup_commit_reference_gently(rev, 1))) {
- new.name = arg;
setup_branch_path(&new);
if (resolve_ref(new.path, rev, 1, NULL))
new.commit = lookup_commit_reference(rev);
diff --git a/t/t2011-checkout-invalid-head.sh b/t/t2011-checkout-invalid-head.sh
index 764bb0a6bc..15ebdc26eb 100755
--- a/t/t2011-checkout-invalid-head.sh
+++ b/t/t2011-checkout-invalid-head.sh
@@ -10,6 +10,10 @@ test_expect_success 'setup' '
git commit -m initial
'
+test_expect_success 'checkout should not start branch from a tree' '
+ test_must_fail git checkout -b newbranch master^{tree}
+'
+
test_expect_success 'checkout master from invalid HEAD' '
echo 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000 >.git/HEAD &&
git checkout master --