Hi, Ramsay Jones wrote: > Commit fcfba37337 ('ref-filter: make "--contains <id>" less chatty if > <id> is invalid', 2018-02-23) added the add_str_to_commit_list() > function, which causes sparse to issue a "... not declared. Should it > be static?" warning for that symbol. Thanks for catching it! > In order to suppress the warning, mark that function as static. Isn't this closer to Indeed, the function is only used in this one compilation unit. Mark it static. ? In other words, sparse's warning is accurate, and this is not about trying to quiet a false positive but about addressing a true positive. > Signed-off-by: Ramsay Jones <ramsay@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> > --- > ref-filter.c | 2 +- > 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-) Thanks, Jonathan