Earlier,
21246dbb9e0a (cherry-pick: make sure all input objects are
commits, 2013-04-11) tried to catch an unlikely "git cherry-pick $blob"
as an error, but broke a more important use case to cherry-pick a
tag that points at a commit.
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
continue;
if (!get_sha1(name, sha1)) {
- enum object_type type = sha1_object_info(sha1, NULL);
-
- if (type > 0 && type != OBJ_COMMIT)
+ if (!lookup_commit_reference_gently(sha1, 1)) {
+ enum object_type type = sha1_object_info(sha1, NULL);
die(_("%s: can't cherry-pick a %s"), name, typename(type));
+ }
} else
die(_("%s: bad revision"), name);
}