t6300: add more body-parsing tests

[git.git] / merge-recursive.c

diff --git a/merge-recursive.c b/merge-recursive.c
index 0cc1e6fc1498e9fc51c9e382aee6a20e439a4ef0..0804eb44e7974462d9e5a84e708e23e406628399 100644 (file)
--- a/merge-recursive.c
+++ b/merge-recursive.c
@@ -1601,12 +1601,10 @@ int merge_recursive(struct merge_options *o,
 
        merged_common_ancestors = pop_commit(&ca);
        if (merged_common_ancestors == NULL) {
-               /* if there is no common ancestor, make an empty tree */
-               struct tree *tree = xcalloc(1, sizeof(struct tree));
+               /* if there is no common ancestor, use an empty tree */
+               struct tree *tree;
 
-               tree->object.parsed = 1;
-               tree->object.type = OBJ_TREE;
-               pretend_sha1_file(NULL, 0, OBJ_TREE, tree->object.sha1);
+               tree = lookup_tree((const unsigned char *)EMPTY_TREE_SHA1_BIN);
                merged_common_ancestors = make_virtual_commit(tree, "ancestor");
        }