Merge commit 'v1.6.0' into jc/checkout-reflog-fix

* commit 'v1.6.0': (2063 commits)
  GIT 1.6.0
  git-p4: chdir now properly sets PWD environment variable in msysGit
  Improve error output of git-rebase
  t9300: replace '!' with test_must_fail
  Git.pm: Make File::Spec and File::Temp requirement lazy
  Documentation: document the pager.* configuration setting
  git-stash: improve synopsis in help and manual page
  Makefile: building git in cygwin 1.7.0
  git-am: ignore --binary option
  bash-completion: Add non-command git help files to bash-completion
  Fix t3700 on filesystems which do not support question marks in names
  Utilise our new p4_read_pipe and p4_write_pipe wrappers
  Add p4 read_pipe and write_pipe wrappers
  bash completion: Add '--merge' long option for 'git log'
  bash completion: Add completion for 'git mergetool'
  git format-patch documentation: clarify what --cover-letter does
  bash completion: 'git apply' should use 'fix' not 'strip'
  t5304-prune: adjust file mtime based on system time rather than file mtime
  test-parse-options: use appropriate cast in length_callback
  Fix escaping of glob special characters in pathspecs
  ...

Conflicts:
	builtin-checkout.c

1 files changed, 3 insertions, 4 deletions

diff --git a/xdiff-interface.c b/xdiff-interface.c
index 4b8e5cca80..61dc5c5470 100644
--- a/xdiff-interface.c
+++ b/xdiff-interface.c
@@ -152,8 +152,8 @@ int read_mmfile(mmfile_t *ptr, const char *filename)
 	if ((f = fopen(filename, "rb")) == NULL)
 		return error("Could not open %s", filename);
 	sz = xsize_t(st.st_size);
-	ptr->ptr = xmalloc(sz);
-	if (fread(ptr->ptr, sz, 1, f) != 1)
+	ptr->ptr = xmalloc(sz ? sz : 1);
+	if (sz && fread(ptr->ptr, sz, 1, f) != 1)
 		return error("Could not read %s", filename);
 	fclose(f);
 	ptr->size = sz;
@@ -233,8 +233,7 @@ void xdiff_set_find_func(xdemitconf_t *xecfg, const char *value)
 			expression = value;
 		if (regcomp(&reg->re, expression, 0))
 			die("Invalid regexp to look for hunk header: %s", expression);
-		if (buffer)
-			free(buffer);
+		free(buffer);
 		value = ep + 1;
 	}
 }