send-email: use catfile() to concatenate files

[thirdparty/git.git] / branch.c

diff --git a/branch.c b/branch.c
index 2ab42aaf4da38b4ea45ef7f0a0f6b807313d4a22..93dc866f8c09a2da2308c4fd677178b043f2d4d5 100644 (file)
--- a/branch.c
+++ b/branch.c
@@ -159,7 +159,7 @@ void create_branch(const char *head,
                        dont_change_ref = 1;
                else if (!force)
                        die("A branch named '%s' already exists.", name);
-               else if (!is_bare_repository() && !strcmp(head, name))
+               else if (!is_bare_repository() && head && !strcmp(head, name))
                        die("Cannot force update the current branch.");
                forcing = 1;
        }