ref-filter: Do not abruptly die when using the 'lstrip=<N>' option

diff --git a/ref-filter.c b/ref-filter.c
index cccd86f574dad26c663ecb5eb722c77d8c55b792..4fd6ef186cc430b34be9f15335e5af72e67bbc1c 100644 (file)
--- a/ref-filter.c
+++ b/ref-filter.c
@@ -1099,8 +1099,7 @@ static const char *lstrip_ref_components(const char *refname, unsigned int len)
        while (remaining) {
                switch (*start++) {
                case '\0':
-                       die(_("ref '%s' does not have %ud components to :lstrip"),
-                           refname, len);
+                       return "";
                case '/':
                        remaining--;
                        break;