Merge branch 'mb/reword-autocomplete-message' into maint

diff --git a/builtin/checkout.c b/builtin/checkout.c
index bfa5419f335dc1db98059869de24f152cffb9aa6..b3609434550a5521b63327eeb909b32797215496 100644 (file)
--- a/builtin/checkout.c
+++ b/builtin/checkout.c
@@ -235,22 +235,24 @@ static int checkout_merged(int pos, const struct checkout *state)
        /*
         * NEEDSWORK:
         * There is absolutely no reason to write this as a blob object
-        * and create a phony cache entry just to leak.  This hack is
-        * primarily to get to the write_entry() machinery that massages
-        * the contents to work-tree format and writes out which only
-        * allows it for a cache entry.  The code in write_entry() needs
-        * to be refactored to allow us to feed a <buffer, size, mode>
-        * instead of a cache entry.  Such a refactoring would help
-        * merge_recursive as well (it also writes the merge result to the
-        * object database even when it may contain conflicts).
+        * and create a phony cache entry.  This hack is primarily to get
+        * to the write_entry() machinery that massages the contents to
+        * work-tree format and writes out which only allows it for a
+        * cache entry.  The code in write_entry() needs to be refactored
+        * to allow us to feed a <buffer, size, mode> instead of a cache
+        * entry.  Such a refactoring would help merge_recursive as well
+        * (it also writes the merge result to the object database even
+        * when it may contain conflicts).
         */
        if (write_sha1_file(result_buf.ptr, result_buf.size,
                            blob_type, oid.hash))
                die(_("Unable to add merge result for '%s'"), path);
+       free(result_buf.ptr);
        ce = make_cache_entry(mode, oid.hash, path, 2, 0);
        if (!ce)
                die(_("make_cache_entry failed for path '%s'"), path);
        status = checkout_entry(ce, state, NULL);
+       free(ce);
        return status;
 }
 
@@ -833,7 +835,8 @@ static int switch_branches(const struct checkout_opts *opts,
        int flag, writeout_error = 0;
        memset(&old, 0, sizeof(old));
        old.path = path_to_free = resolve_refdup("HEAD", 0, rev.hash, &flag);
-       old.commit = lookup_commit_reference_gently(rev.hash, 1);
+       if (old.path)
+               old.commit = lookup_commit_reference_gently(rev.hash, 1);
        if (!(flag & REF_ISSYMREF))
                old.path = NULL;
 
@@ -1286,9 +1289,8 @@ int cmd_checkout(int argc, const char **argv, const char *prefix)
                 * new_branch && argc > 1 will be caught later.
                 */
                if (opts.new_branch && argc == 1)
-                       die(_("Cannot update paths and switch to branch '%s' at the same time.\n"
-                             "Did you intend to checkout '%s' which can not be resolved as commit?"),
-                           opts.new_branch, argv[0]);
+                       die(_("'%s' is not a commit and a branch '%s' cannot be created from it"),
+                               argv[0], opts.new_branch);
 
                if (opts.force_detach)
                        die(_("git checkout: --detach does not take a path argument '%s'"),