Merge branch 'maint-1.7.4' into maint

diff --git a/builtin/merge.c b/builtin/merge.c
index 0f03dff1160f68de6f406f038c1b5c2bbd6529c8..a437ecba297e76eab1b72a2966b2b0b1cf3b49bc 100644 (file)
--- a/builtin/merge.c
+++ b/builtin/merge.c
@@ -599,6 +599,14 @@ static void write_tree_trivial(unsigned char *sha1)
                die(_("git write-tree failed to write a tree"));
 }
 
+static const char *merge_argument(struct commit *commit)
+{
+       if (commit)
+               return sha1_to_hex(commit->object.sha1);
+       else
+               return EMPTY_TREE_SHA1_HEX;
+}
+
 int try_merge_command(const char *strategy, size_t xopts_nr,
                      const char **xopts, struct commit_list *common,
                      const char *head_arg, struct commit_list *remotes)
@@ -619,11 +627,11 @@ int try_merge_command(const char *strategy, size_t xopts_nr,
                args[i++] = s;
        }
        for (j = common; j; j = j->next)
-               args[i++] = xstrdup(sha1_to_hex(j->item->object.sha1));
+               args[i++] = xstrdup(merge_argument(j->item));
        args[i++] = "--";
        args[i++] = head_arg;
        for (j = remotes; j; j = j->next)
-               args[i++] = xstrdup(sha1_to_hex(j->item->object.sha1));
+               args[i++] = xstrdup(merge_argument(j->item));
        args[i] = NULL;
        ret = run_command_v_opt(args, RUN_GIT_CMD);
        strbuf_release(&buf);