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Diffstat (limited to 'builtin/checkout.c')
| -rw-r--r-- | builtin/checkout.c | 4 |
1 files changed, 3 insertions, 1 deletions
diff --git a/builtin/checkout.c b/builtin/checkout.c index beeaee4113..c6919f1687 100644 --- a/builtin/checkout.c +++ b/builtin/checkout.c @@ -699,7 +699,9 @@ static int switch_branches(struct checkout_opts *opts, struct branch_info *new) unsigned char rev[20]; int flag; memset(&old, 0, sizeof(old)); - old.path = xstrdup(resolve_ref("HEAD", rev, 0, &flag)); + old.path = resolve_ref("HEAD", rev, 0, &flag); + if (old.path) + old.path = xstrdup(old.path); old.commit = lookup_commit_reference_gently(rev, 1); if (!(flag & REF_ISSYMREF)) { free((char *)old.path); |