struct commit *commit;
 
        while ((commit = get_revision(revs)) != NULL) {
-               add_pending_tree(revs, commit->tree);
+               /*
+                * an uninteresting boundary commit may not have its tree
+                * parsed yet, but we are not going to show them anyway
+                */
+               if (commit->tree)
+                       add_pending_tree(revs, commit->tree);
                show_commit(commit, data);
        }
        for (i = 0; i < revs->pending.nr; i++) {