From: Alex Riesen Date: Thu, 13 Aug 2009 21:51:33 GMT Subject: Re: [PATCH 1/5] port --ignore-unmatch to "git add" Message-ID: <81b0412b0908131451q651b40a5q187257b7bda93b0a@mail.gmail.com> In-Reply-To: <200908131540.49701.luke@dashjr.org> On Thu, Aug 13, 2009 at 22:40, Luke-Jr wrote: > On Thursday 13 August 2009 02:36:13 pm Junio C Hamano wrote: >> Now the obligatory design level question is behind us, let's take a brief >> look at the codde. >> >> > +static int ignore_unmatch = 0; >> >> Drop " = 0" and let the language initialize this to zero. > > Does C define a default initialisation of zero? My understanding was that > uninitialised variables are always undefined until explicitly assigned a > value. Yes. For statics.