do not write null sha1s to on-disk index

diff --git a/archive.c b/archive.c
index 164bbd014a82feac48886db6f27ba85d61a059ac..1ee837d7170cfa52da6725cfe7c5ae0d6d67462e 100644 (file)
--- a/archive.c
+++ b/archive.c
@@ -260,14 +260,23 @@ static void parse_treeish_arg(const char **argv,
        /* Remotes are only allowed to fetch actual refs */
        if (remote) {
                char *ref = NULL;
-               if (!dwim_ref(name, strlen(name), sha1, &ref))
-                       die("no such ref: %s", name);
+               const char *refname, *colon = NULL;
+
+               colon = strchr(name, ':');
+               if (colon)
+                       refname = xstrndup(name, colon - name);
+               else
+                       refname = name;
+
+               if (!dwim_ref(refname, strlen(refname), sha1, &ref))
+                       die("no such ref: %s", refname);
+               if (refname != name)
+                       free((void *)refname);
                free(ref);
        }
-       else {
-               if (get_sha1(name, sha1))
-                       die("Not a valid object name");
-       }
+
+       if (get_sha1(name, sha1))
+               die("Not a valid object name");
 
        commit = lookup_commit_reference_gently(sha1, 1);
        if (commit) {