checkout: allow dwim for branch creation for "git checkout $branch --"

diff --git a/upload-pack.c b/upload-pack.c
index bfa6279cc418278079bd95854adfe8d8301b6788..127e59a6037a14ad63648a727e873fe4a9e38381 100644 (file)
--- a/upload-pack.c
+++ b/upload-pack.c
@@ -592,7 +592,7 @@ static void receive_needs(void)
                                die("invalid shallow line: %s", line);
                        object = parse_object(sha1);
                        if (!object)
-                               die("did not find object for %s", line);
+                               continue;
                        if (object->type != OBJ_COMMIT)
                                die("invalid shallow object %s", sha1_to_hex(sha1));
                        if (!(object->flags & CLIENT_SHALLOW)) {