# [PATCH 1/5] builtin-fetch: Don't segfault on "fetch +foo"

1 messages from 2007-09-18 to 2007-09-18. Participants: Shawn O. Pearce.
Thread: https://gitlist.dev/t/9913

## Shawn O. Pearce, 2007-09-18 08:54

Subject: [PATCH 1/5] builtin-fetch: Don't segfault on "fetch +foo"
Message-ID: <20070918085448.GA5390@spearce.org>
URL: https://gitlist.dev/e/20070918085448.GA5390%40spearce.org

```
If we are fetching something and were configured to do a forced
fetch and have no local ref to store the fetched object into we
cannot mark the local ref as having a forced update.  Instead we
should just silently discard the + request.

Signed-off-by: Shawn O. Pearce <spearce@spearce.org>
---
 remote.c |    3 +--
 1 files changed, 1 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)

diff --git a/remote.c b/remote.c
index 73a34c9..af3c46b 100644
--- a/remote.c
+++ b/remote.c
@@ -875,8 +875,7 @@ int get_fetch_map(struct ref *remote_refs,
 					 refspec->src : "HEAD");
 
 		ref_map->peer_ref = get_local_ref(refspec->dst);
-
-		if (refspec->force)
+		if (ref_map->peer_ref && refspec->force)
 			ref_map->peer_ref->force = 1;
 	}
 
-- 
1.5.3.1.1000.g7319b

```