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-rw-r--r--src/checkout.c7
1 files changed, 6 insertions, 1 deletions
diff --git a/src/checkout.c b/src/checkout.c
index b3e95dff8..f39c341d4 100644
--- a/src/checkout.c
+++ b/src/checkout.c
@@ -2430,8 +2430,13 @@ static int checkout_data_init(
if (!data->opts.baseline && !data->opts.baseline_index) {
data->opts_free_baseline = true;
+ error = 0;
- error = checkout_lookup_head_tree(&data->opts.baseline, repo);
+ /* if we don't have an index, this is an initial checkout and
+ * should be against an empty baseline
+ */
+ if (data->index->on_disk)
+ error = checkout_lookup_head_tree(&data->opts.baseline, repo);
if (error == GIT_EUNBORNBRANCH) {
error = 0;