On Thu, Oct 19, 2017 at 1:49 PM, Jeff King <p...@peff.net> wrote:
> The refs_resolve_ref_unsafe() function may return NULL even
> with a REF_ISSYMREF flag if a symref points to a broken ref.
> As a result, it's possible for find_shared_symref() to
> segfault when it passes NULL to strcmp().
> [...]
> We can fix this by treating NULL the same as a non-matching
> symref. Arguably we'd prefer to tell know if a symref points

s/tell//

> to "refs/heads/foo", but "refs/heads/foo" is broken. But
> refs_resolve_ref_unsafe() isn't capable of giving us that
> information, so this is the best we can do.
>
> Signed-off-by: Jeff King <p...@peff.net>

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