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| -rw-r--r-- | builtin/checkout.c | 3 |
1 files changed, 2 insertions, 1 deletions
diff --git a/builtin/checkout.c b/builtin/checkout.c index 81f07c3ef2..5744499098 100644 --- a/builtin/checkout.c +++ b/builtin/checkout.c @@ -814,7 +814,8 @@ 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; |