diff --git a/merge-recursive.c b/merge-recursive.c
index dd52342539cd05e59bb13e956d51251417f21e3c..55ef76f5a5f855475f796dfda39fa3417179be8b 100644 (file)
--- a/merge-recursive.c
+++ b/merge-recursive.c
if (get_sha1(ref, sha1))
die("Could not resolve ref '%s'", ref);
object = deref_tag(parse_object(sha1), ref, strlen(ref));
+ if (!object)
+ return NULL;
if (object->type == OBJ_TREE)
return make_virtual_commit((struct tree*)object,
better_branch_name(ref));