avoid asking ?alloc() for zero bytes.

Avoid asking for zero bytes when that change simplifies overall
logic.  Later we would change the wrapper to ask for 1 byte on
platforms that return NULL for zero byte request.

Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <junkio@cox.net>

1 files changed, 3 insertions, 0 deletions

diff --git a/diffcore-pathspec.c b/diffcore-pathspec.c
index 68fe009132..139fe882f9 100644
--- a/diffcore-pathspec.c
+++ b/diffcore-pathspec.c
@@ -48,6 +48,9 @@ void diffcore_pathspec(const char **pathspec)
 	for (i = 0; pathspec[i]; i++)
 		;
 	speccnt = i;
+	if (!speccnt)
+		return;
+
 	spec = xmalloc(sizeof(*spec) * speccnt);
 	for (i = 0; pathspec[i]; i++) {
 		spec[i].spec = pathspec[i];