From 4ed32e79b6e39ad2f9bf8d95423bebc044a7cd67 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: 6543 <6543@obermui.de>
Date: Thu, 28 Jul 2022 22:18:49 +0200
Subject: [PATCH] Fix possible panic when repository is empty (#20509) (#20526)

Backport #20509
---
 routers/web/repo/view.go | 12 ++++++++----
 1 file changed, 8 insertions(+), 4 deletions(-)

diff --git a/routers/web/repo/view.go b/routers/web/repo/view.go
index 169c6fa82..33a5dec85 100644
--- a/routers/web/repo/view.go
+++ b/routers/web/repo/view.go
@@ -902,10 +902,14 @@ func renderCode(ctx *context.Context) {
 	ctx.Data["PageIsViewCode"] = true
 
 	if ctx.Repo.Repository.IsEmpty {
-		reallyEmpty, err := ctx.Repo.GitRepo.IsEmpty()
-		if err != nil {
-			ctx.ServerError("GitRepo.IsEmpty", err)
-			return
+		reallyEmpty := true
+		var err error
+		if ctx.Repo.GitRepo != nil {
+			reallyEmpty, err = ctx.Repo.GitRepo.IsEmpty()
+			if err != nil {
+				ctx.ServerError("GitRepo.IsEmpty", err)
+				return
+			}
 		}
 		if reallyEmpty {
 			ctx.HTML(http.StatusOK, tplRepoEMPTY)