Jeff King <peff@xxxxxxxx> writes: > I said earlier that I wouldn't mind seeing "namelen = 0" here. But I > think there is a much more direct solution: keeping the assignment and > point of use closer together. That makes it more clear both to the > compiler and to a human when we expect the variable to be valid. In > fact, since it's only used once, we can drop the variable altogther. :) Yeah, that sounds like a nice solution. > diff --git a/t/helper/test-read-cache.c b/t/helper/test-read-cache.c > index 7e79b555de..244977a29b 100644 > --- a/t/helper/test-read-cache.c > +++ b/t/helper/test-read-cache.c > @@ -4,11 +4,10 @@ > > int cmd__read_cache(int argc, const char **argv) > { > - int i, cnt = 1, namelen; > + int i, cnt = 1; > const char *name = NULL; > > if (argc > 1 && skip_prefix(argv[1], "--print-and-refresh=", &name)) { > - namelen = strlen(name); > argc--; > argv++; > } > @@ -24,7 +23,7 @@ int cmd__read_cache(int argc, const char **argv) > > refresh_index(&the_index, REFRESH_QUIET, > NULL, NULL, NULL); > - pos = index_name_pos(&the_index, name, namelen); > + pos = index_name_pos(&the_index, name, strlen(name)); > if (pos < 0) > die("%s not in index", name); > printf("%s is%s up to date\n", name,