Subject: [PATCH v2 06/15] merge: do not check argc to determine number of remote heads

From: Junio C Hamano <[email-masked]>
Date: Wed, 29 Apr 2015 14:29:24 -0700

To reject merging multiple commits into an unborn branch, we check
argc, thinking that collect_parents() that reads the remaining
command line arguments from <argc, argv> will give us the same
number of commits as its input, i.e. argc.

Because what we really care about is the number of commits, let the
function run and then make sure it returns only one commit instead.

Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <[email-masked]>
---
 builtin/merge.c | 5 ++---
 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-)

diff --git a/builtin/merge.c b/builtin/merge.c
index 878f82a..1d4fbd3 100644
--- a/builtin/merge.c
+++ b/builtin/merge.c
@@ -1185,9 +1185,6 @@ int cmd_merge(int argc, const char **argv, const char *prefix)
 		 * to forbid "git merge" into a branch yet to be born.
 		 * We do the same for "git pull".
 		 */
-		if (argc != 1)
-			die(_("Can merge only exactly one commit into "
-				"empty head"));
 		if (squash)
 			die(_("Squash commit into empty head not supported yet"));
 		if (fast_forward == FF_NO)
@@ -1197,6 +1194,8 @@ int cmd_merge(int argc, const char **argv, const char *prefix)
 		remote_head = remoteheads->item;
 		if (!remote_head)
 			die(_("%s - not something we can merge"), argv[0]);
+		if (remoteheads->next)
+			die(_("Can merge only exactly one commit into empty head"));
 		read_empty(remote_head->object.sha1, 0);
 		update_ref("initial pull", "HEAD", remote_head->object.sha1,
 			   NULL, 0, UPDATE_REFS_DIE_ON_ERR);
-- 
2.4.0-rc3-300-g052d062