Re: testsuite failures in mainline...

[Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>]

David Miller <davem@davemloft.net> writes:

> 	if (!prefixcmp(key, "branch.")) {
> 		name = key + 7;
> 		subkey = strrchr(name, '.');
> 		branch = make_branch(name, subkey - name);
>
> What if 'subkey' is NULL?  I bet that's what happening here.

Wow, good eyes.

It makes me wonder what my C library has been returning during the
tests...

---

 remote.c |    2 +-
 1 files changed, 1 insertions(+), 1 deletions(-)

diff --git a/remote.c b/remote.c
index 3fb0f99..0e00680 100644
--- a/remote.c
+++ b/remote.c
@@ -220,11 +220,11 @@ static int handle_config(const char *key, const char *value)
 	if (!prefixcmp(key, "branch.")) {
 		name = key + 7;
 		subkey = strrchr(name, '.');
-		branch = make_branch(name, subkey - name);
 		if (!subkey)
 			return 0;
 		if (!value)
 			return 0;
+		branch = make_branch(name, subkey - name);
 		if (!strcmp(subkey, ".remote")) {
 			branch->remote_name = xstrdup(value);
 			if (branch == current_branch)