merge: allow reading the merge commit message from a file

diff --git a/builtin/pull.c b/builtin/pull.c
index 49cc3beb4c428a4bd0513d922b59465ab0c5c414..fe002a72f8ac7f1020a951769641f5f4b39f23b3 100644 (file)
--- a/builtin/pull.c
+++ b/builtin/pull.c
@@ -684,7 +684,7 @@ static const char *get_tracking_branch(const char *remote, const char *refspec)
        const char *spec_src;
        const char *merge_branch;
 
-       refspec_item_init(&spec, refspec, REFSPEC_FETCH);
+       refspec_item_init_or_die(&spec, refspec, REFSPEC_FETCH);
        spec_src = spec.src;
        if (!*spec_src || !strcmp(spec_src, "HEAD"))
                spec_src = "HEAD";