diff --git a/builtin-checkout.c b/builtin-checkout.c
index 64f3a11ae1d415c466def8eccefe9dbc5b6b3926..67229fc21607ceb51c34d77c4ef5682d96f1e909 100644 (file)
--- a/builtin-checkout.c
+++ b/builtin-checkout.c
fill_mm(active_cache[pos+2]->sha1, &theirs);
status = ll_merge(&result_buf, path, &ancestor,
- &ours, "ours", &theirs, "theirs", 1);
+ &ours, "ours", &theirs, "theirs", 0);
free(ancestor.ptr);
free(ours.ptr);
free(theirs.ptr);
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));
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 */