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| -rw-r--r-- | sequencer.c | 14 |
1 files changed, 11 insertions, 3 deletions
diff --git a/sequencer.c b/sequencer.c index 4e3af82442..72cb4ff82c 100644 --- a/sequencer.c +++ b/sequencer.c @@ -261,9 +261,17 @@ static int is_index_unchanged(void) return error(_("Could not resolve HEAD commit\n")); head_commit = lookup_commit(head_sha1); - if (!head_commit || parse_commit(head_commit)) - return error(_("could not parse commit %s\n"), - sha1_to_hex(head_commit->object.sha1)); + + /* + * If head_commit is NULL, check_commit, called from + * lookup_commit, would have indicated that head_commit is not + * a commit object already. parse_commit() will return failure + * without further complaints in such a case. Otherwise, if + * the commit is invalid, parse_commit() will complain. So + * there is nothing for us to say here. Just return failure. + */ + if (parse_commit(head_commit)) + return -1; if (!active_cache_tree) active_cache_tree = cache_tree(); |