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Re: [PATCH] config: remove useless assignment

From
Jeff King <peff@peff.net>
Date
Mar 28, 2012, 20:22 UTC
Message-ID
<20120328202233.GB29315@sigill.intra.peff.net>
In-Reply-To
<4F73721D.4010808@lsrfire.ath.cx>
On Wed, Mar 28, 2012 at 10:18:37PM +0200, René Scharfe wrote:
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> v1.7.9-8-g270a344 (config: stop using config_exclusive_filename) replaced
> config_exclusive_filename with given_config_file.  In one case this
> resulted in a self-assignment, which is reported by clang as a warning.
> Remove the useless code.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Rene Scharfe <rene.scharfe@lsrfire.ath.cx>
> ---
>  builtin/config.c |    2 --
>  1 file changed, 2 deletions(-)
> 
> diff --git a/builtin/config.c b/builtin/config.c
> index d41a9bf..33c8820 100644
> --- a/builtin/config.c
> +++ b/builtin/config.c
> @@ -397,8 +397,6 @@ int cmd_config(int argc, const char **argv, const char *prefix)
>  				xstrdup(prefix_filename(prefix,
>  							strlen(prefix),
>  							given_config_file));
> -		else
> -			given_config_file = given_config_file;
>  	}

Thanks. I remember refactoring that part of the conditional several times while figuring out the right ordering of my refactoring patches, but obviously I missed removing the stale code on the final pass-through.

Acked-by: Jeff King <peff@peff.net>
-Peff
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