ffffuuu another broken one

src/merge.c

diff --git a/src/merge.c b/src/merge.c
index d7a2204..4a3eb6f 100644
--- a/src/merge.c
+++ b/src/merge.c
@@ -557,8 +557,7 @@
 		(error = git_odb_write(&automerge_oid, odb, result.data, result.len, GIT_OBJ_BLOB)) < 0)
 		goto done;
 
-	if ((index_entry = git_pool_malloc(&diff_list->pool, sizeof(git_index_entry))) == NULL)
-
+	index_entry = git_pool_malloc(&diff_list->pool, sizeof(git_index_entry));
 	index_entry->path = git_pool_strdup(&diff_list->pool, result.path);
 
 	index_entry->file_size = result.len;