Re: [bug?] checkout -m doesn't work without a base version

> Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com> writes:
>>> builtin/checkout.c: In function ‘cmd_checkout’:
>>> builtin/checkout.c:210:5: warning: ‘mode’ may be used uninitialized
>>> in this function [-Wuninitialized]
>>> builtin/checkout.c:160:11: note: ‘mode’ was declared here
>>
>> Isn't this just your gcc being overly cautious (aka "silly")?
>>
>> The variable "mode" is assigned to when we see an stage #2 entry in the
>> loop, and we should have updated threeway[1] immediately before doing so.
>> If threeway[1] is not updated, we would have already returned before using
>> the variable in make_cache_entry().
> 
> Maybe that is actually guaranteed (I dunno), but it's certainly not
> obvious from the code here, even to a human... any guarantee would
> have to come from external invariants that the compiler doesn't know
> about.
> 
> Given that, I think it's a fair warning, certainly not "silly."  This
> aspect of the code doesn't seem easy to understand...