From ec3f033ae9410b9aea2671a192d759684043aa09 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: pascalkuthe <dspom@protonmail.com>
Date: Tue, 20 Sep 2022 20:44:25 +0200
Subject: [PATCH] fix crash when creating new file

---
 helix-vcs/src/git.rs | 2 +-
 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/helix-vcs/src/git.rs b/helix-vcs/src/git.rs
index 08121ad109cf..c1dd07197c1f 100644
--- a/helix-vcs/src/git.rs
+++ b/helix-vcs/src/git.rs
@@ -12,7 +12,7 @@ pub struct Git;
 
 impl DiffProvider for Git {
     fn get_file_head(&self, file: &Path) -> Option<Vec<u8>> {
-        debug_assert!(file.is_file());
+        debug_assert!(!file.exists() || file.is_file());
         debug_assert!(file.is_absolute());
 
         // discover a repository, requires a directory so we call parent (should not fail but exit gracefully in that case)