blame: allow to blame paths freshly added to the index

diff --git a/builtin/blame.c b/builtin/blame.c
index 21f42b0b62b81b637f1cc9589cd6c0306a93d05e..12c765acfede5727b27b2afaed2eb290fd930fc6 100644 (file)
--- a/builtin/blame.c
+++ b/builtin/blame.c
@@ -2230,6 +2230,7 @@ static int git_blame_config(const char *var, const char *value, void *cb)
 static void verify_working_tree_path(struct commit *work_tree, const char *path)
 {
        struct commit_list *parents;
+       int pos;
 
        for (parents = work_tree->parents; parents; parents = parents->next) {
                const unsigned char *commit_sha1 = parents->item->object.oid.hash;
@@ -2240,7 +2241,14 @@ static void verify_working_tree_path(struct commit *work_tree, const char *path)
                    sha1_object_info(blob_sha1, NULL) == OBJ_BLOB)
                        return;
        }
-       die("no such path '%s' in HEAD", path);
+
+       pos = cache_name_pos(path, strlen(path));
+       if (pos >= 0)
+               ; /* path is in the index */
+       else if (!strcmp(active_cache[-1 - pos]->name, path))
+               ; /* path is in the index, unmerged */
+       else
+               die("no such path '%s' in HEAD", path);
 }
 
 static struct commit_list **append_parent(struct commit_list **tail, const unsigned char *sha1)