Merge branch 'ep/maint-equals-null-cocci' for maint-2.35

* ep/maint-equals-null-cocci:
  tree-wide: apply equals-null.cocci
  contrib/coccinnelle: add equals-null.cocci

1 files changed, 1 insertions, 1 deletions

diff --git a/branch.c b/branch.c
index 5d20a2e848..bc46adfa25 100644
--- a/branch.c
+++ b/branch.c
@@ -405,7 +405,7 @@ void create_branch(struct repository *r,
 		break;
 	}
 
-	if ((commit = lookup_commit_reference(r, &oid)) == NULL)
+	if (!(commit = lookup_commit_reference(r, &oid)))
 		die(_("not a valid branch point: '%s'"), start_name);
 	oidcpy(&oid, &commit->object.oid);