Jeff King <[email protected]> writes: > In an ideal world, we'd simply fix all of the callers to > notice the null sha1 and avoid passing it to us. But a > simple experiment to catch this with a BUG() shows that > there are a large number of code paths.
Well, we can view this (or the alternative you sent later that does the same a bit earlier in the function) as "fixing the caller" but has already refactord the common logic to a helper function that all of these callers call into ;-).
