From: Jay Soffian <jaysoffian@gmail.com>
Date: Thu, 21 Feb 2008 02:56:41 GMT
Subject: Re: [PATCH] checkout: tone down the "forked status" diagnostic messages
Message-ID: <76718490802201856x54f160e7m7bb6ba10fada845e@mail.gmail.com>
In-Reply-To: <7vy79f2pqk.fsf_-_@gitster.siamese.dyndns.org>

On Wed, Feb 20, 2008 at 6:05 PM, Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com> wrote:

>  diff --git a/builtin-checkout.c b/builtin-checkout.c
>  index 5291f72..261f67f 100644
>  --- a/builtin-checkout.c
>  +++ b/builtin-checkout.c
>  @@ -301,64 +301,88 @@ static void adjust_to_tracking(struct branch_info *new, struct checkout_opts *op
>         char *base;
>  +       base = branch->merge[0]->dst;
>         if (!resolve_ref(base, sha1, 1, NULL))
>                 return;

Apparently base can be null, which on OS X causes a Bus Error in resolve_ref
when it calls strcmp(ref, list->name)

j.