Avoid scary errors about tagged trees/blobs during git-fetch

diff --git a/entry.c b/entry.c
index 0625112339deee7418571b5d513f923d6f00092b..fc3a506ecef4ed654f26c11996df109dd135a4ed 100644 (file)
--- a/entry.c
+++ b/entry.c
@@ -112,6 +112,16 @@ static int write_entry(struct cache_entry *ce, char *path, const struct checkout
                if (!new)
                        return error("git-checkout-index: unable to read sha1 file of %s (%s)",
                                path, sha1_to_hex(ce->sha1));
+
+               /*
+                * Convert from git internal format to working tree format
+                */
+               buf = convert_to_working_tree(ce->name, new, &size);
+               if (buf) {
+                       free(new);
+                       new = buf;
+               }
+
                if (to_tempfile) {
                        strcpy(path, ".merge_file_XXXXXX");
                        fd = mkstemp(path);
@@ -123,15 +133,6 @@ static int write_entry(struct cache_entry *ce, char *path, const struct checkout
                                path, strerror(errno));
                }
 
-               /*
-                * Convert from git internal format to working tree format
-                */
-               buf = convert_to_working_tree(ce->name, new, &size);
-               if (buf) {
-                       free(new);
-                       new = buf;
-               }
-
                wrote = write_in_full(fd, new, size);
                close(fd);
                free(new);