The msvc compiler thinks the 'failed_errno' variable could be used while uninitialised and issues 26 warnings thus: ...\git\run-command.c(142) : warning C4700: uninitialized local \ variable 'failed_errno' used In order to suppress the warnings, we simply initialise the variable to zero. Signed-off-by: Ramsay Jones <ramsay@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> --- run-command.c | 2 +- 1 files changed, 1 insertions(+), 1 deletions(-) diff --git a/run-command.c b/run-command.c index 2a1041e..0dad4da 100644 --- a/run-command.c +++ b/run-command.c @@ -139,7 +139,7 @@ int start_command(struct child_process *cmd) { int need_in, need_out, need_err; int fdin[2], fdout[2], fderr[2]; - int failed_errno = failed_errno; + int failed_errno = 0; /* * In case of errors we must keep the promise to close FDs -- 1.7.3 -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe git" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html