Makefile: clean up http-walker.o dependency rules

diff --git a/builtin-checkout.c b/builtin-checkout.c
index 64f3a11ae1d415c466def8eccefe9dbc5b6b3926..2708669383e21f038a1404e061b34bc4302e8a93 100644 (file)
--- a/builtin-checkout.c
+++ b/builtin-checkout.c
@@ -397,7 +397,7 @@ static int merge_working_tree(struct checkout_opts *opts,
                topts.initial_checkout = is_cache_unborn();
                topts.update = 1;
                topts.merge = 1;
-               topts.gently = opts->merge;
+               topts.gently = opts->merge && old->commit;
                topts.verbose_update = !opts->quiet;
                topts.fn = twoway_merge;
                topts.dir = xcalloc(1, sizeof(*topts.dir));
@@ -422,7 +422,13 @@ static int merge_working_tree(struct checkout_opts *opts,
                        struct merge_options o;
                        if (!opts->merge)
                                return 1;
-                       parse_commit(old->commit);
+
+                       /*
+                        * Without old->commit, the below is the same as
+                        * the two-tree unpack we already tried and failed.
+                        */
+                       if (!old->commit)
+                               return 1;
 
                        /* Do more real merge */