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1 files changed, 14 insertions, 12 deletions
diff --git a/builtin/checkout.c b/builtin/checkout.c
index bfa5419f33..b360943455 100644
--- a/builtin/checkout.c
+++ b/builtin/checkout.c
@@ -235,22 +235,24 @@ static int checkout_merged(int pos, const struct checkout *state)
/*
* NEEDSWORK:
* There is absolutely no reason to write this as a blob object
- * and create a phony cache entry just to leak. This hack is
- * primarily to get to the write_entry() machinery that massages
- * the contents to work-tree format and writes out which only
- * allows it for a cache entry. The code in write_entry() needs
- * to be refactored to allow us to feed a <buffer, size, mode>
- * instead of a cache entry. Such a refactoring would help
- * merge_recursive as well (it also writes the merge result to the
- * object database even when it may contain conflicts).
+ * and create a phony cache entry. This hack is primarily to get
+ * to the write_entry() machinery that massages the contents to
+ * work-tree format and writes out which only allows it for a
+ * cache entry. The code in write_entry() needs to be refactored
+ * to allow us to feed a <buffer, size, mode> instead of a cache
+ * entry. Such a refactoring would help merge_recursive as well
+ * (it also writes the merge result to the object database even
+ * when it may contain conflicts).
*/
if (write_sha1_file(result_buf.ptr, result_buf.size,
blob_type, oid.hash))
die(_("Unable to add merge result for '%s'"), path);
+ free(result_buf.ptr);
ce = make_cache_entry(mode, oid.hash, path, 2, 0);
if (!ce)
die(_("make_cache_entry failed for path '%s'"), path);
status = checkout_entry(ce, state, NULL);
+ free(ce);
return status;
}
@@ -833,7 +835,8 @@ static int switch_branches(const struct checkout_opts *opts,
int flag, writeout_error = 0;
memset(&old, 0, sizeof(old));
old.path = path_to_free = resolve_refdup("HEAD", 0, rev.hash, &flag);
- old.commit = lookup_commit_reference_gently(rev.hash, 1);
+ if (old.path)
+ old.commit = lookup_commit_reference_gently(rev.hash, 1);
if (!(flag & REF_ISSYMREF))
old.path = NULL;
@@ -1286,9 +1289,8 @@ int cmd_checkout(int argc, const char **argv, const char *prefix)
* new_branch && argc > 1 will be caught later.
*/
if (opts.new_branch && argc == 1)
- die(_("Cannot update paths and switch to branch '%s' at the same time.\n"
- "Did you intend to checkout '%s' which can not be resolved as commit?"),
- opts.new_branch, argv[0]);
+ die(_("'%s' is not a commit and a branch '%s' cannot be created from it"),
+ argv[0], opts.new_branch);
if (opts.force_detach)
die(_("git checkout: --detach does not take a path argument '%s'"),