cherry-pick: allow to pick to unborn branches
cherry-pick allows to pick single commits to an empty HEAD, but not
multiple commits.
Allow the multiple commit case, too.
Reported-by: Fabrizio Cucci <fabrizio.cucci@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Michael J Gruber <git@drmicha.warpmail.net>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
diff --git a/sequencer.c b/sequencer.c
index c4f4b7d..c051d13 100644
--- a/sequencer.c
+++ b/sequencer.c
@@ -919,6 +919,10 @@
filename);
goto fail;
}
+ if (is_null_sha1(sha1)) {
+ error(_("cannot abort from a branch yet to be born"));
+ goto fail;
+ }
if (reset_for_rollback(sha1))
goto fail;
remove_sequencer_state();
@@ -1118,11 +1122,8 @@
walk_revs_populate_todo(&todo_list, opts);
if (create_seq_dir() < 0)
return -1;
- if (get_sha1("HEAD", sha1)) {
- if (opts->action == REPLAY_REVERT)
- return error(_("Can't revert as initial commit"));
- return error(_("Can't cherry-pick into empty head"));
- }
+ if (get_sha1("HEAD", sha1) && (opts->action == REPLAY_REVERT))
+ return error(_("Can't revert as initial commit"));
save_head(sha1_to_hex(sha1));
save_opts(opts);
return pick_commits(todo_list, opts);
