The msvc compiler thinks that a variable could be used while uninitialised and issues the following warning: ...\git\builtin\cat-file.c(171) : warning C4700: uninitialized \ local variable 'contents' used In order to suppress the warning, we simply initialise the contents pointer variable to NULL. Signed-off-by: Ramsay Jones <ramsay@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> --- builtin/cat-file.c | 2 +- 1 files changed, 1 insertions(+), 1 deletions(-) diff --git a/builtin/cat-file.c b/builtin/cat-file.c index 94632db..472f3ad 100644 --- a/builtin/cat-file.c +++ b/builtin/cat-file.c @@ -168,7 +168,7 @@ static int batch_one_object(const char *obj_name, int print_contents) unsigned char sha1[20]; enum object_type type = 0; unsigned long size; - void *contents = contents; + void *contents = NULL; if (!obj_name) return 1; -- 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