In particular, gcc complains thus: CC pretty.o pretty.c: In function 'format_commit_item': pretty.c:1282: warning: 'offset' might be used uninitialized in \ this function In order to suppress the warning we simply initialize the 'offset' variable in it's declarartion. Signed-off-by: Ramsay Jones <ramsay@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> --- Hi Nguyen, If you need to re-roll your 'nd/pretty-placeholder-with-color-option' branch, could you please squash this (or something like it) into the relevant commit. [commit f1da75df ("pretty: support padding placeholders, %< %> and %><", 23-09-2012). NOTE: this patch is on top of pu@a78f4186] An alternative solution looks like (this will probably break git-am): --- >8 --- diff --git a/pretty.c b/pretty.c index deeacf2..25d8eb2 100644 --- a/pretty.c +++ b/pretty.c @@ -1292,6 +1292,8 @@ static size_t format_and_pad_commit(struct strbuf *sb, /* in UTF-8 */ break; case flush_left_and_steal: case no_flush: /* to make gcc happy */ + default: + offset = 0; break; } /* --- 8< --- ... but this disables the "enumeration value 'no_flush' not handled in switch" type warnings. [Actually, I would not bother with a switch at all; I find this: } else { int sb_len = sb->len, offset = 0; if (c->flush_type == flush_left) offset = padding - len; else if (c->flush_type == flush_both) offset = (padding - len) / 2; ... ... much more readable. But that's just me ... :-D ] Thanks! ATB, Ramsay Jones pretty.c | 2 +- 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-) diff --git a/pretty.c b/pretty.c index deeacf2..d26428b 100644 --- a/pretty.c +++ b/pretty.c @@ -1279,7 +1279,7 @@ static size_t format_and_pad_commit(struct strbuf *sb, /* in UTF-8 */ } strbuf_addstr(sb, local_sb.buf); } else { - int sb_len = sb->len, offset; + int sb_len = sb->len, offset = 0; switch (c->flush_type) { case flush_left: offset = padding - len; -- 1.7.12 -- 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