Re: [PATCH v6.1 4/8] Implement line-history search (git log -L)

Thomas Rast [off-list ref] writes:

+void line_log_init(struct rev_info *rev, struct diff_line_range *r)
+{
+	struct commit *commit = NULL;
+	struct diff_options *opt = &rev->diffopt;
+
+	commit = (struct commit *)verify_commit(rev);
+	parse_lines(commit, r);
+
+	add_line_range(rev, commit, r);
+	/*
+	 * Note we support -M/-C to detect file rename
+	 */
+	opt->nr_paths = 0;
+	diff_tree_release_paths(opt);
+}

Note that opt->nr_paths may be going away soon (cf. nd/struct-pathspec
topic).  Do you need this assignment here?