Currently, read-tree silently accepts an invocation without any
tree-ishs given and simply clobbers the index in that case. This
contradicts the usage synopsis and it's also probably not what anyone
would want to happen. So, instead, abort with a fatal error.
Signed-off-by: Jan Krüger <redacted>
---
Someone in #git got confused by this.
builtin/read-tree.c | 2 ++
1 files changed, 2 insertions(+), 0 deletions(-)
diff --git a/builtin/read-tree.c b/builtin/read-tree.c
index 9ad1e66..67eb08e 100644
--- a/builtin/read-tree.c
+++ b/builtin/read-tree.c
@@ -166,6 +166,8 @@ int cmd_read_tree(int argc, const char **argv, const char *unused_prefix)
die("failed to unpack tree object %s", arg);
stage++;
}
+ if (nr_trees == 0)
+ die("no trees specified to read");
if (1 < opts.index_only + opts.update)
die("-u and -i at the same time makes no sense");
if ((opts.update||opts.index_only) && !opts.merge)--
1.7.2.3.392.g02377.dirty