# [PATCH] Fix crash when reading the empty tree

1 messages from 2006-05-07 to 2006-05-07. Participants: Johannes Schindelin.
Thread: https://gitlist.dev/t/4089

## Johannes Schindelin, 2006-05-07 15:42

Subject: [PATCH] Fix crash when reading the empty tree
Message-ID: <Pine.LNX.4.63.0605071742240.5906@wbgn013.biozentrum.uni-wuerzburg.de>
URL: https://gitlist.dev/e/Pine.LNX.4.63.0605071742240.5906%40wbgn013.biozentrum.uni-wuerzburg.de

```

cvsimport needs to call git-read-tree without arguments to create an empty
tree.

Signed-off-by: Johannes Schindelin <Johannes.Schindelin@gmx.de>
---
 read-tree.c |    2 +-
 1 files changed, 1 insertions(+), 1 deletions(-)

diff --git a/read-tree.c b/read-tree.c
index 067fb95..a060a97 100644
--- a/read-tree.c
+++ b/read-tree.c
@@ -881,7 +881,7 @@ int main(int argc, char **argv)
 	 * valid cache-tree because the index must match exactly
 	 * what came from the tree.
 	 */
-	if (trees->item && (!merge || (stage == 2))) {
+	if (trees && trees->item && (!merge || (stage == 2))) {
 		cache_tree_free(&active_cache_tree);		
 		prime_cache_tree();
 	}
-- 
1.3.2.g5131-dirty

```