Handle empty slices in CreateBlobFromBuffer()

Go won't let us access the zeroth alement of an empty slice, so we need
to figure out if the length is zero and take special action.

This fixes #106.

1 files changed, 12 insertions, 3 deletions

diff --git a/blob.go b/blob.go
index 4277127..58258fd 100644
--- a/blob.go
+++ b/blob.go
@@ -36,12 +36,21 @@ func (v *Blob) Contents() []byte {
 func (repo *Repository) CreateBlobFromBuffer(data []byte) (*Oid, error) {
 	runtime.LockOSThread()
 	defer runtime.UnlockOSThread()
-	oid := C.git_oid{}
-	ecode := C.git_blob_create_frombuffer(&oid, repo.ptr, unsafe.Pointer(&data[0]), C.size_t(len(data)))
+
+	var id C.git_oid
+	var ptr unsafe.Pointer
+
+	if len(data) > 0 {
+		ptr = unsafe.Pointer(&data[0])
+	} else {
+		ptr = unsafe.Pointer(nil)
+	}
+
+	ecode := C.git_blob_create_frombuffer(&id, repo.ptr, ptr, C.size_t(len(data)))
 	if ecode < 0 {
 		return nil, MakeGitError(ecode)
 	}
-	return newOidFromC(&oid), nil
+	return newOidFromC(&id), nil
 }
 
 type BlobChunkCallback func(maxLen int) ([]byte, error)