As an alternate for the incoming patch, this snippet could be used to eliminate some dead code in builtin/notes.c Since `argc' will always be 2 in the removed condition. Also: Signed-off-by: Doan Tran Cong Danh <congdanhqx@xxxxxxxxx> --- builtin/notes.c | 7 ++----- 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 5 deletions(-) diff --git a/builtin/notes.c b/builtin/notes.c index 02e97f55c5..641ae66f75 100644 --- a/builtin/notes.c +++ b/builtin/notes.c @@ -488,7 +488,6 @@ static int copy(int argc, const char **argv, const char *prefix) { int retval = 0, force = 0, from_stdin = 0; const struct object_id *from_note, *note; - const char *object_ref; struct object_id object, from_obj; struct notes_tree *t; const char *rewrite_cmd = NULL; @@ -525,10 +524,8 @@ static int copy(int argc, const char **argv, const char *prefix) if (get_oid(argv[0], &from_obj)) die(_("failed to resolve '%s' as a valid ref."), argv[0]); - object_ref = 1 < argc ? argv[1] : "HEAD"; - - if (get_oid(object_ref, &object)) - die(_("failed to resolve '%s' as a valid ref."), object_ref); + if (get_oid(argv[1], &object)) + die(_("failed to resolve '%s' as a valid ref."), argv[1]); t = init_notes_check("copy", NOTES_INIT_WRITABLE); note = get_note(t, &object); -- 2.23.0