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authorJohannes Schindelin <Johannes.Schindelin@gmx.de>2006-08-09 18:43:03 +0200
committerJunio C Hamano <junkio@cox.net>2006-08-09 14:54:00 -0700
commit934d9a24078e65111e9946ad3449c3fa9c06475e (patch)
tree2d3c0a364e51a392785bde9508efcede26543828 /merge-recursive.c
parentc1964a006f9035cbdc6de8e55768fc6ad00d4825 (diff)
downloadgit-934d9a24078e65111e9946ad3449c3fa9c06475e.tar.gz
merge-recur: if there is no common ancestor, fake empty one
This fixes the coolest merge ever. [jc: with two "Oops that's not it" fixes from Johannes and Alex, and an obvious type mismatch fix.] Signed-off-by: Johannes Schindelin <johannes.schindelin@gmx.de> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <junkio@cox.net>
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1 files changed, 12 insertions, 0 deletions
diff --git a/merge-recursive.c b/merge-recursive.c
index 7a93dd9208..d4de1adfe2 100644
--- a/merge-recursive.c
+++ b/merge-recursive.c
@@ -1223,6 +1223,18 @@ int merge(struct commit *h1,
output_commit_title(iter->item);
merged_common_ancestors = pop_commit(&ca);
+ if (merged_common_ancestors == NULL) {
+ /* if there is no common ancestor, make an empty tree */
+ struct tree *tree = xcalloc(1, sizeof(struct tree));
+ unsigned char hdr[40];
+ int hdrlen;
+
+ tree->object.parsed = 1;
+ tree->object.type = OBJ_TREE;
+ write_sha1_file_prepare(NULL, 0, tree_type, tree->object.sha1,
+ hdr, &hdrlen);
+ merged_common_ancestors = make_virtual_commit(tree, "ancestor");
+ }
for (iter = ca; iter; iter = iter->next) {
output_indent = call_depth + 1;