cherry-picking into an unborn branch should work, so make it work,
with or without --ff.
Cherry-picking anything other than a commit that only adds files, will
naturally result in conflicts. Similarly, revert also works, but will
result in conflicts unless the specified revision only deletes files.
Signed-off-by: Martin von Zweigbergk <martinvonz@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
cherry-pick will segfault when transplanting a root commit if the --ff
option is used. This happens because the "parent" pointer is set to NULL
when the commit being cherry-picked has no parents. Later, when "parent"
is dereferenced, the cherry-pick segfaults.
Fix this by checking whether "parent" is NULL before dereferencing it and
add a test for this case of cherry-picking a root commit with --ff.
Reported-by: Zbyszek Szmek <zbyszek@in.waw.pl>
Signed-off-by: Brandon Casey <casey@nrlssc.navy.mil>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
