Stefan Beller <stefanbeller@xxxxxxxxx> writes: > In line 1763 of unpack-tree.c we have a condition on the current tree > if (current) { > ... > Within this block of code we can assume current to be non NULL, hence > the code after the statement in line 1796: > if (current) > return ... > > cannot be reached. > > The proposed patch here changes the order of the current tree and the > newtree part. I'm not sure if that's the right way to handle it. If the existing code decides to reject the merge and falls into that code path, src[0] aka current is not NULL at that point as you noticed, and we would call reject_merge(current, o); we would keep doing so after this "remove dead code" patch is applied. If you remove the dead code, which are the inner check for current, reject_merge() call with newtree and the final fallback of returning -1, then it would be a faithful "remove dead code without changing anything else" update. Having said that, I think current/newtree/oldtree are used in the call to reject_merge() *only* for their path aka ce->name, and they all point at the same name (there is no rename funkies here); hence "all other failures" code path should just rely on current always being present and become something like this instead: /* 20 or 21 */ ... } else if (o->gently) { return -1; } else { return reject_merge(current, o); } Thanks. -- 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