refs: loosen restriction on wildcard "*" refspecs

diff --git a/sha1_file.c b/sha1_file.c
index 001537c9359bf83fdc4d6c59426a25424be2e803..56c69cebc80f57f26f9898fbbc6587176f915339 100644 (file)
--- a/sha1_file.c
+++ b/sha1_file.c
@@ -707,8 +707,8 @@ static void mmap_limit_check(size_t length)
                    (uintmax_t)length, (uintmax_t)limit);
 }
 
-void *xmmap(void *start, size_t length,
-       int prot, int flags, int fd, off_t offset)
+void *xmmap_gently(void *start, size_t length,
+                 int prot, int flags, int fd, off_t offset)
 {
        void *ret;
 
@@ -719,12 +719,19 @@ void *xmmap(void *start, size_t length,
                        return NULL;
                release_pack_memory(length);
                ret = mmap(start, length, prot, flags, fd, offset);
-               if (ret == MAP_FAILED)
-                       die_errno("Out of memory? mmap failed");
        }
        return ret;
 }
 
+void *xmmap(void *start, size_t length,
+       int prot, int flags, int fd, off_t offset)
+{
+       void *ret = xmmap_gently(start, length, prot, flags, fd, offset);
+       if (ret == MAP_FAILED)
+               die_errno("mmap failed");
+       return ret;
+}
+
 void close_pack_windows(struct packed_git *p)
 {
        while (p->windows) {
@@ -3202,7 +3209,7 @@ static int index_core(unsigned char *sha1, int fd, size_t size,
        int ret;
 
        if (!size) {
-               ret = index_mem(sha1, NULL, size, type, path, flags);
+               ret = index_mem(sha1, "", size, type, path, flags);
        } else if (size <= SMALL_FILE_SIZE) {
                char *buf = xmalloc(size);
                if (size == read_in_full(fd, buf, size))