From: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Date: Tue, 22 Jan 2008 09:47:59 GMT
Subject: Re: [PATCH 2/2] read-cache.c: fix timestamp comparison
Message-ID: <7v3asqry28.fsf@gitster.siamese.dyndns.org>
In-Reply-To: <alpine.LFD.1.00.0801211242330.2957@woody.linux-foundation.org>

Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org> writes:

> The stupid thing is that I literally _grepped_ for the code testing 
> "ce_mode".
>
> I had missed that one because I had looked for things like
>
> 	if ([!].*ce_mode)
>
> but that switch statement meant that the comparison to zero was 
> non-local and my grep didn't see it.

Would a patch to sparse help you in cases like this?