Merge branch 'cw/cherry-pick-allow-empty-message'

diff --git a/builtin/reset.c b/builtin/reset.c
index 4cc34c908446fe2d3db5acf315e47f2768ba07bd..74442bd7663387ab9864927f9c0d511e04e6e379 100644 (file)
--- a/builtin/reset.c
+++ b/builtin/reset.c
@@ -276,7 +276,7 @@ int cmd_reset(int argc, const char **argv, const char *prefix)
                 * Otherwise, argv[i] could be either <rev> or <paths> and
                 * has to be unambiguous.
                 */
-               else if (!get_sha1(argv[i], sha1)) {
+               else if (!get_sha1_committish(argv[i], sha1)) {
                        /*
                         * Ok, argv[i] looks like a rev; it should not
                         * be a filename.
@@ -289,9 +289,15 @@ int cmd_reset(int argc, const char **argv, const char *prefix)
                }
        }
 
-       if (get_sha1(rev, sha1))
+       if (get_sha1_committish(rev, sha1))
                die(_("Failed to resolve '%s' as a valid ref."), rev);
 
+       /*
+        * NOTE: As "git reset $treeish -- $path" should be usable on
+        * any tree-ish, this is not strictly correct. We are not
+        * moving the HEAD to any commit; we are merely resetting the
+        * entries in the index to that of a treeish.
+        */
        commit = lookup_commit_reference(sha1);
        if (!commit)
                die(_("Could not parse object '%s'."), rev);