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| -rw-r--r-- | builtin-checkout.c | 6 |
1 files changed, 4 insertions, 2 deletions
diff --git a/builtin-checkout.c b/builtin-checkout.c index fe7c8584ca..ad3c01fdd9 100644 --- a/builtin-checkout.c +++ b/builtin-checkout.c @@ -745,8 +745,10 @@ int cmd_checkout(int argc, const char **argv, const char *prefix) new.name = arg; if ((new.commit = lookup_commit_reference_gently(rev, 1))) { setup_branch_path(&new); - if (resolve_ref(new.path, rev, 1, NULL)) - new.commit = lookup_commit_reference(rev); + + if ((check_ref_format(new.path) == CHECK_REF_FORMAT_OK) && + resolve_ref(new.path, rev, 1, NULL)) + ; else new.path = NULL; parse_commit(new.commit); |