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| -rw-r--r-- | builtin/rebase.c | 4 |
1 files changed, 3 insertions, 1 deletions
diff --git a/builtin/rebase.c b/builtin/rebase.c index 19c7b377aa..840dbd7eb7 100644 --- a/builtin/rebase.c +++ b/builtin/rebase.c @@ -1917,7 +1917,9 @@ int cmd_rebase(int argc, const char **argv, const char *prefix) die_if_checked_out(buf.buf, 1); options.head_name = xstrdup(buf.buf); /* If not is it a valid ref (branch or commit)? */ - } else if (!get_oid(branch_name, &options.orig_head)) + } else if (!get_oid(branch_name, &options.orig_head) && + lookup_commit_reference(the_repository, + &options.orig_head)) options.head_name = NULL; else die(_("fatal: no such branch/commit '%s'"), |