Re: [PATCH] Remove various dead assignments and dead increments found by the clang static analyzer

Reece Dunn [off-list ref] writes:

quoted

There is exactly one caller, and it doesn't care about the return code
for the reasons mentioned above.

Including being called from a script?

I agree, if something goes wrong then it should be reported.  The same
applies to the `run_receive_hook' return code that is not checked in
`cmd_receive_pack'.

Considering you want to keep the current source code invariants, and I
don't have any objection to it, probably the only assignment that can be
removed is the following one:

From f8dd14bf4c3f3e132f6a8e13bf3e2fc575a804b1 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001

From: Giuseppe Scrivano <redacted>
Date: Sat, 26 Sep 2009 23:23:13 +0200
Subject: [PATCH] Remove a dead assignment found by the clang static analyzer

---
 http-fetch.c |    3 +--
 1 files changed, 1 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)

diff --git a/http-fetch.c b/http-fetch.c
index e8f44ba..6879904 100644
--- a/http-fetch.c
+++ b/http-fetch.c

@@ -3,7 +3,6 @@
 
 int main(int argc, const char **argv)
 {
-	const char *prefix;
 	struct walker *walker;
 	int commits_on_stdin = 0;
 	int commits;

@@ -19,7 +18,7 @@ int main(int argc, const char **argv)
 	int get_verbosely = 0;
 	int get_recover = 0;
 
-	prefix = setup_git_directory();
+	setup_git_directory();
 
 	git_config(git_default_config, NULL);
 

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