Merge branch 'master' into js/merge

* master: (42 commits)
  git-svn: correctly handle packed-refs in refs/remotes/
  add test case for recursive merge
  git-svn: correctly display fatal() error messages
  git-svn: allow dcommit to take an alternate head
  git-svn: enable logging of information not supported by git
  Clarify fetch error for missing objects.
  Move Fink and Ports check to after config file
  shortlog: fix segfault on empty authorname
  shortlog: remove "[PATCH]" prefix from shortlog output
  Make sure the empty tree exists when needed in merge-recursive.
  Don't use memcpy when source and dest. buffers may overlap
  no need to install manpages as executable
  Documentation: simpler shared repository creation
  shortlog: fix segfault on empty authorname
  Add branch.*.merge warning and documentation update
  Fix perl/ build.
  git-svn: use do_switch for --follow-parent if the SVN library supports it
  Fix documentation copy&paste typo
  git-svn: extra error check to ensure we open a file correctly
  Documentation: update git-clone man page with new behavior
  ...

1 files changed, 3 insertions, 2 deletions

diff --git a/git-merge.sh b/git-merge.sh
index 272f004622..a948878b91 100755
--- a/git-merge.sh
+++ b/git-merge.sh
@@ -188,8 +188,9 @@ else
 	# in this loop.
 	merge_name=$(for remote
 		do
-			rh=$(git-rev-parse --verify "$remote"^0 2>/dev/null) &&
-			bh=$(git show-ref -s --verify "refs/heads/$remote") &&
+			rh=$(git-rev-parse --verify "$remote"^0 2>/dev/null) ||
+			continue ;# not something we can merge
+			bh=$(git show-ref -s --verify "refs/heads/$remote" 2>/dev/null)
 			if test "$rh" = "$bh"
 			then
 				echo "$rh		branch '$remote' of ."