# [PATCH] mailsplit: remove unnecessary unlink(2) call

1 messages from 2014-10-04 to 2014-10-04. Participants: René Scharfe.
Thread: https://gitlist.dev/t/37671

## René Scharfe, 2014-10-04 08:41

Subject: [PATCH] mailsplit: remove unnecessary unlink(2) call
Message-ID: <542FB2A9.3020705@web.de>
URL: https://gitlist.dev/e/542FB2A9.3020705%40web.de

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The output file hasn't been created at this point, yet, so there is no
need to delete it when exiting early.

Suggested-by: Jeff King <peff@peff.net>
Signed-off-by: Rene Scharfe <l.s.r@web.de>
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Original thread: http://thread.gmane.org/gmane.comp.version-control.git/255140

 builtin/mailsplit.c | 1 -
 1 file changed, 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/builtin/mailsplit.c b/builtin/mailsplit.c
index 763cda0..8e02ea1 100644
--- a/builtin/mailsplit.c
+++ b/builtin/mailsplit.c
@@ -59,7 +59,6 @@ static int split_one(FILE *mbox, const char *name, int allow_bare)
 	int is_bare = !is_from_line(buf.buf, buf.len);
 
 	if (is_bare && !allow_bare) {
-		unlink(name);
 		fprintf(stderr, "corrupt mailbox\n");
 		exit(1);
 	}
-- 
2.1.2

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