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authorJonathan Nieder <jrnieder@gmail.com>2010-08-17 01:52:48 -0500
committerJunio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>2010-08-18 14:02:02 -0700
commitb81f925f709a10b37fb4fcd03629b55bc890a478 (patch)
tree915874e3e43dc2615104b2fceca2ea5ecfffa1e5 /builtin
parent64fdc08dac6694d1e754580e7acb82dfa4988bb9 (diff)
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merge: do not mistake (ancestor of) tag for branch
If no branch 'foo' exists but a tag 'foo' does, then git merge foo^ results in Merge branch 'foo' (early part) as a commit message, because the relevant code path checks that refs/heads/foo is a valid refname for writing rather than for reading. Signed-off-by: Jonathan Nieder <jrnieder@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Diffstat (limited to 'builtin')
-rw-r--r--builtin/merge.c2
1 files changed, 1 insertions, 1 deletions
diff --git a/builtin/merge.c b/builtin/merge.c
index 37ce4f589..2207f7996 100644
--- a/builtin/merge.c
+++ b/builtin/merge.c
@@ -437,7 +437,7 @@ static void merge_name(const char *remote, struct strbuf *msg)
strbuf_addstr(&truname, "refs/heads/");
strbuf_addstr(&truname, remote);
strbuf_setlen(&truname, truname.len - len);
- if (resolve_ref(truname.buf, buf_sha, 0, NULL)) {
+ if (resolve_ref(truname.buf, buf_sha, 1, NULL)) {
strbuf_addf(msg,
"%s\t\tbranch '%s'%s of .\n",
sha1_to_hex(remote_head->sha1),