status: introduce status.branch to enable --branch by default

diff --git a/builtin/merge-tree.c b/builtin/merge-tree.c
index ec49917a3686233548afb0f959208e2561fc1374..61cbde4094bf27ea9dfaba158233ba7f4613f2ee 100644 (file)
--- a/builtin/merge-tree.c
+++ b/builtin/merge-tree.c
@@ -251,7 +251,11 @@ static void unresolved(const struct traverse_info *info, struct name_entry n[3])
 
        for (i = 0; i < 3; i++) {
                mask |= (1 << i);
-               if (n[i].mode && S_ISDIR(n[i].mode))
+               /*
+                * Treat missing entries as directories so that we return
+                * after unresolved_directory has handled this.
+                */
+               if (!n[i].mode || S_ISDIR(n[i].mode))
                        dirmask |= (1 << i);
        }