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[PATCH] builtin-branch: Fix crash on invalid use of --force

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vfr@lyx.org <vfr@lyx.org>
Date
Nov 23, 2011, 06:31 UTC
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From: Vincent van Ravesteijn <vfr@lyx.org>

The option --force should not put us in 'create branch' mode. The fact that this option is only valid in 'create branch' mode is already caught by the the next 'if' in which we assure that we are in the correct mode.

Without this patch, we end up calling create_branch without any arguments. This means that argv[0] makes not much sense and that we will finally crash because the branch name is a NULL pointer. Hence the added safety check that we should not try to create a branch without a name.

Signed-off-by: Vincent van Ravesteijn <vfr@lyx.org>
---
 builtin/branch.c |    4 ++--
 1 files changed, 2 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)
diff --git a/builtin/branch.c b/builtin/branch.c
index 51ca6a0..55cad76 100644
--- a/builtin/branch.c
+++ b/builtin/branch.c
@@ -705,7 +705,7 @@ int cmd_branch(int argc, const char **argv, const char *prefix)
 	argc = parse_options(argc, argv, prefix, options, builtin_branch_usage,
 			     0);
 
-	if (!delete && !rename && !force_create && argc == 0)
+	if (!delete && !rename && argc == 0)
 		list = 1;
 
 	if (!!delete + !!rename + !!force_create + !!list > 1)
@@ -726,7 +726,7 @@ int cmd_branch(int argc, const char **argv, const char *prefix)
 			rename_branch(argv[0], argv[1], rename > 1);
 		else
 			usage_with_options(builtin_branch_usage, options);
-	} else if (argc <= 2) {
+	} else if (argc > 0 && argc <= 2) {
 		if (kinds != REF_LOCAL_BRANCH)
 			die(_("-a and -r options to 'git branch' do not make sense with a branch name"));
 		create_branch(head, argv[0], (argc == 2) ? argv[1] : head,
-- 
1.7.8-rc3
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