The msvc compiler thinks a variable could be used while uninitialised and issues the following warning: ...\git\merge-recursive.c(1599) : warning C4700: uninitialized local \ variable 'mrtree' used In order to suppress the warning we simply initialise the mrtree pointer variable to NULL. Signed-off-by: Ramsay Jones <ramsay@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> --- merge-recursive.c | 2 +- 1 files changed, 1 insertions(+), 1 deletions(-) diff --git a/merge-recursive.c b/merge-recursive.c index 16c2dbe..d5423ad 100644 --- a/merge-recursive.c +++ b/merge-recursive.c @@ -1596,7 +1596,7 @@ int merge_recursive(struct merge_options *o, { struct commit_list *iter; struct commit *merged_common_ancestors; - struct tree *mrtree = mrtree; + struct tree *mrtree = NULL; int clean; if (show(o, 4)) { -- 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