From: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Date: Tue, 07 Dec 2021 20:37:44 GMT
Subject: Re: [PATCH] revision: use C99 declaration of variable in for() loop
Message-ID: <xmqq35n46tif.fsf@gitster.g>
In-Reply-To: <836296d0-6eee-7c6b-04d0-d93909948611@gmail.com>

Phillip Wood <phillip.wood123@gmail.com> writes:

> ... I guess that means we
> have not had any warning flags set (because no such flags exist?)  to
> protect against the accidental introduction of the construct that this
> patch is testing compiler support for.

I think we actually saw some instances of "for (type var = ..."
slipped through the review process, only to later get caught by
some other means.