From: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Date: Sat, 12 Dec 2009 01:01:18 GMT
Subject: Re: [PATCH 3/3] octopus: remove dead code
Message-ID: <7viqcdxaxt.fsf@alter.siamese.dyndns.org>
In-Reply-To: <1260578339-30750-3-git-send-email-bebarino@gmail.com>

Stephen Boyd <bebarino@gmail.com> writes:

> MSG, PARENT, and CNT are never used, just assigned to.
>
> Signed-off-by: Stephen Boyd <bebarino@gmail.com>
> ---
>
> I don't know if this is wanted. Looks like maybe they're used
> as simple debug aides?

No, thanks for spotting.  It is the right thing to do to just get rid of
them.

IIRC, they are remnants of ancient logic of the script, even before
91063bb (Multi-backend merge driver., 2005-09-08) that added it to the
official git history, and were used to update MRC and to come up with the
end result (experimental versions of the script used to run "commit-tree"
itself).