From: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Date: Sun, 9 Nov 2008 18:56:26 +0000 (-0800)
Subject: Merge branch 'maint'
X-Git-Tag: v1.6.1-rc1~73
X-Git-Url: http://git.tremily.us/?a=commitdiff_plain;h=a9645b780b698703cd7dee25051d6ce39b0544c6;p=git.git

Merge branch 'maint'

* maint:
  Documentation: bisect: change a few instances of "git-cmd" to "git cmd"
  Documentation: rev-list: change a few instances of "git-cmd" to "git cmd"
  checkout: Don't crash when switching away from an invalid branch.
---

a9645b780b698703cd7dee25051d6ce39b0544c6
diff --cc builtin-checkout.c
index 57b94d282,05eee4ecc..06904c3bd
--- a/builtin-checkout.c
+++ b/builtin-checkout.c
@@@ -491,11 -358,12 +491,11 @@@ static void update_refs_for_switch(stru
  		setup_branch_path(new);
  	}
  
 -	strbuf_init(&msg, 0);
  	old_desc = old->name;
- 	if (!old_desc)
+ 	if (!old_desc && old->commit)
  		old_desc = sha1_to_hex(old->commit->object.sha1);
  	strbuf_addf(&msg, "checkout: moving from %s to %s",
- 		    old_desc, new->name);
+ 		    old_desc ? old_desc : "(invalid)", new->name);
  
  	if (new->path) {
  		create_symref("HEAD", new->path, msg.buf);